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The Trans-Pacific ‘Partnership’ and Our Environment

Posted on October 31, 2015 by cjkperley

The very idea that the Trans-Pacific ‘Partnership’ (TPP) is good for the environment (Craig Foss MP Hawke’s Bay Today 26th October) is arrant nonsense.  More than that, it is wilful distortion. While Mr Foss might have the privilege of knowing what clauses … Continue reading →

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Propaganda and the Rhetoric of the Ruataniwha Dam

Posted on September 2, 2015 by cjkperley

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell I was taught propaganda at school. Our English master, Mr Brown, liked words. He had an inspirational … Continue reading →

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Reframing our Water as a Commons

Posted on June 15, 2015 by cjkperley

This article was published in the Hawke’s Bay Today following the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s (HBRC) decision to allow an overseas water bottling plant to take water from the high quality aquifer that lies beneath the cities of Hasting and Napier. … Continue reading →

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Two strategic directions for Land Use in New Zealand: Where do we stand?

Posted on March 4, 2015 by cjkperley

I wrote this what seems light years ago.  I think it was 2007 or 2008. This is very rough, a mind dump.  It was done quickly, and is more to do with me getting thoughts out of my mind and … Continue reading →

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Alternatives to Conventional Economic Development: And the Philosophy of Not Realising our Potential

Posted on September 7, 2014 by cjkperley

More than 20 years ago a deep thinker, Richard Norgaard, wrote a book called Development Betrayed.  What he wrote wasn’t particularly new.  Other beautiful minds from Leopold Kohr, E. F. Schumacher to the still living treasure, Wendell Berry, made similar … Continue reading →

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