Gareth
@grenow.bsky.social
Self-reinvention is a way to stay young, as long as you can remember what you were.
I recall being an author, journalist, photographer, truffle grower, climate change writer, magazine editor and publisher, but who can be sure?
Born at 313ppm
I recall being an author, journalist, photographer, truffle grower, climate change writer, magazine editor and publisher, but who can be sure?
Born at 313ppm
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Ironically if you electrify the full transport fleet, and put solar panels and batteries on every single house and factory in NZ, we would end up importing so little oil, coal and gas, we would end up in a permanent trade account surplus
AKA SWIMMING IN THE CASH TO AFFORD THOSE NICE THINGS!
AKA SWIMMING IN THE CASH TO AFFORD THOSE NICE THINGS!
So what we need is the rural sector to boom as they generate our export receipts aka hard currency
We need the cities to boom as they produce the services and industry to sell the goods and train the people to man the rural sector (farming is a science)
They are in a symbiotic relationship!
We need the cities to boom as they produce the services and industry to sell the goods and train the people to man the rural sector (farming is a science)
They are in a symbiotic relationship!
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ironically if you electrify the full transport fleet, and put solar panels and batteries on every single house and factory in NZ, we would end up importing so little oil, coal and gas, we would end up in a permanent trade account surplus
AKA SWIMMING IN THE CASH TO AFFORD THOSE NICE THINGS!
AKA SWIMMING IN THE CASH TO AFFORD THOSE NICE THINGS!
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The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per year around the middle of the century, depending on the level of warming above pre-industrial levels, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. go.nature.com/4pEfbP5 ⚒️ 🧪
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per year around the middle of the century, depending on the level of warming above pre-industrial levels, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. go.nature.com/4pEfbP5 ⚒️ 🧪
“To see this retreating giant is to understand impermanence, to understand the real and terrible results of industrialisation, of climate change.”
Lisa Tumahai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lisa Tumahai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“To see this retreating giant is to understand impermanence, to understand the real and terrible results of industrialisation, of climate change.”
Lisa Tumahai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lisa Tumahai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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December 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
December 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
December 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Such a wonderful contribution to the public debate from farming's lunatic fringe: Groundswill is taking octogenarian American physicist Will Happer on a tour to promote his fact-challenged and fossil-funded views on climate.
www.groundswellnz.co.nz/news/dr-will...
www.desmog.com/william-happ...
www.groundswellnz.co.nz/news/dr-will...
www.desmog.com/william-happ...
William Happer
William Happer Credentials Ph.D, physics, Princeton (1964). Bachelor’s degree in physics from University of North Carolina (1960). Background William Happer is the emeritus Eugene Higgens professor o...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Such a wonderful contribution to the public debate from farming's lunatic fringe: Groundswill is taking octogenarian American physicist Will Happer on a tour to promote his fact-challenged and fossil-funded views on climate.
www.groundswellnz.co.nz/news/dr-will...
www.desmog.com/william-happ...
www.groundswellnz.co.nz/news/dr-will...
www.desmog.com/william-happ...
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"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
Big batteries are the future, but our stupid government wants to drill for more gas...
theconversation.com/big-batterie...
theconversation.com/big-batterie...
Big batteries are now outcompeting gas in the grid – and gas-rich Western Australia is at the forefront
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Big batteries are the future, but our stupid government wants to drill for more gas...
theconversation.com/big-batterie...
theconversation.com/big-batterie...
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Some people develop chicken wings, but I’ve got turkey legs…
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Some people develop chicken wings, but I’ve got turkey legs…
Today's lesson is from the quahog clam:
“My advice to live longer is to take care of your mitochondria: do exercise, eat well and take cold showers… Cold showers seem to induce quality control mechanisms of mitochondria.”
www.newscientist.com/article/2497...
“My advice to live longer is to take care of your mitochondria: do exercise, eat well and take cold showers… Cold showers seem to induce quality control mechanisms of mitochondria.”
www.newscientist.com/article/2497...
The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal
Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long and what can we learn from it?
www.newscientist.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Today's lesson is from the quahog clam:
“My advice to live longer is to take care of your mitochondria: do exercise, eat well and take cold showers… Cold showers seem to induce quality control mechanisms of mitochondria.”
www.newscientist.com/article/2497...
“My advice to live longer is to take care of your mitochondria: do exercise, eat well and take cold showers… Cold showers seem to induce quality control mechanisms of mitochondria.”
www.newscientist.com/article/2497...
An important counter narrative on AI. Today's must read...
"AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the data-centers will be shuttered or sold for parts."
"AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the data-centers will be shuttered or sold for parts."
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
An important counter narrative on AI. Today's must read...
"AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the data-centers will be shuttered or sold for parts."
"AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the data-centers will be shuttered or sold for parts."
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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Adoration of the Maggi®
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Adoration of the Maggi®
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We're just backwards
Behind on solar, EVs, still installing gas heating and cooking still buying more and more diesel and petrol, importing more coal
Like its still the 20th century
Behind on solar, EVs, still installing gas heating and cooking still buying more and more diesel and petrol, importing more coal
Like its still the 20th century
Australia has had solar subsidies for so long that some of my Aussie colleagues are eligible for a second round of upgrades because it's been ten years.
NZ meanwhile, we can't have nice things. It might upset the status quo.
NZ meanwhile, we can't have nice things. It might upset the status quo.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We're just backwards
Behind on solar, EVs, still installing gas heating and cooking still buying more and more diesel and petrol, importing more coal
Like its still the 20th century
Behind on solar, EVs, still installing gas heating and cooking still buying more and more diesel and petrol, importing more coal
Like its still the 20th century
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I only ever had one Rupert annual - this one. (I was five.) Extraordinary to see this again - one of the key visual memories of my childhood.
The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I only ever had one Rupert annual - this one. (I was five.) Extraordinary to see this again - one of the key visual memories of my childhood.
Woke up this morning with this tune running around my brain.
Now it's your turn...
youtu.be/8aNbDn4mBcA
Now it's your turn...
youtu.be/8aNbDn4mBcA
The Kinks - Wonderboy (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Kinks
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Woke up this morning with this tune running around my brain.
Now it's your turn...
youtu.be/8aNbDn4mBcA
Now it's your turn...
youtu.be/8aNbDn4mBcA
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Monday morning rose
#capturedwithIndigo
(Actually shot on Sunday evening while waiting for a sunset that never really got going)
#capturedwithIndigo
(Actually shot on Sunday evening while waiting for a sunset that never really got going)
December 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Monday morning rose
#capturedwithIndigo
(Actually shot on Sunday evening while waiting for a sunset that never really got going)
#capturedwithIndigo
(Actually shot on Sunday evening while waiting for a sunset that never really got going)