Coal Mining Rejection is a Win for People-Power   350 Aotearoa commends Minister of Conservation, Eugenie Sage, and Energy and Resources Minister, Megan Woods on their decision to decline the application  to mine coal on the conservation land that is part of the proposed Te Kuha mine, saying the decision is “a win for (More...)

Press Release5 June, 2018Simplicity Divestment Shows Turning Tide Against Fossil Fuel Industry 350 Aotearoa is congratulating KiwiSaver provider, Simplicity, on their decision to divest from fossil fuels, weapons, tobacco and pornorgaphy, calling it “an outstanding example of people using their power to push institutions like Simplicity to take action on climate change.”Today Simplicity announced that (More...)

POEM FOR THE COMMONWEALTH 2018 By Karlo Mila Watch the video of Karlo at the Fossil Free Acceleration Tour (Auckland, 7th May 2018) here: We gather here and feel the weight of the world on our shoulders. It does not feel like we’ve inherited  commonwealth. But rather common problems. If we are to heed the (More...)

    This morning, a group of students dropped an 8-meter banner reading: “Your Uni is funding climate change. VC Stuart McCutcheon divest now” from the University of Auckland General Library. The banner is protesting the continued refusal by University Vice-Chancellor, Stuart McCutcheon to call on the University Foundation to divest from coal, oil and (More...)

By Rosemary Penwarden I’m on my way to speak at climate guru and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben’s Fossil Fuel Acceleration Tour in Wellington – the slow way, since I’ve stopped flying. Not quite – I have saved one last flight for my mum. She’s 93. I live in the south, she in the north. I (More...)

By Áine Kelly-Costello In 2013, I was just another uni student. I was staying at halls, looking for the odd interesting event to mosey along to with friends to distract me from my upcoming English essays and Music Theory assignments. One evening, just such an event that most of my dinner dinner table were heading (More...)