Recently we went to Hawkes Bay to see my family and visit some customers. I grew up in the Bay and I remember in my first year of University taking the train from the Bay to Wellington through the Gorge and always wondered what would happen to the train lines over time. Now you cannot take a train and if travelling by car you have to go over the ridge way past the wind farm. What a view when you drive right past those imposing windmills. Some may say it is a blight on our landscape but others may say it is a great sight showing our progress to clean energy.
Unfortunately our Government is considering building a new fossil fuel electricity generation plant like the Huntly coal-fired power station, and a giant fossil gas importation facility to feed it. Like Greenpeace states, this path would lock us into a future of rising electricity prices and climate emissions that throws more fuel on the fire of extreme climate events that are ravaging communities, like floods, droughts, fires and cyclones.
Have you seen your latest power bill. Mine is mind blowing and I cannot wait till I get solar on my house!
Here is a link to sign the petition regarding the possible build of a new fossil fuel electricity generation plant. Sign it if you want clean energy for New Zealand.
Last month I went to the Climate Tech conference here in Wellington and I was amazed at all the incredible innovation around clean energy that is being pursued in our own backyard. We as a nation have so many natural elements we can draw from to create clean energy such as our volcanic power, wind, sea, sun to name a few. Lets develop technologies around those resources. And I love some of the green incentives such as the interest free loans that some of the banks offer to convert consumers to solar etc. Here is a great article put out by ECCA around green loans and more.
Before I go, I just want to share one of the best speeches I have listened to for a while by Michelle Obama. I love the fact she was able to weave her distain for Trump in a respectful way. 'When they go low, we go high' (Michelle Obama).
Thanks for listening and please contribute to our survey to help us understand what you need and want from us. Link here again.
Also please head over to Woolies and buy our NZ made eco stain removing laundry soap. Help keep us on shelf as we are up against traditional non eco brands like Sards and Sunlight. And for the record, our stain removing soaps absolutely remove stains while being completely toxin free.
Anna xx
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