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"For decades, climate activists tried and failed to find messaging that could persuade politicians and the public to take their cause seriously. The world was ending! Why didn’t anyone care? The Australian inventor and entrepreneur Saul Griffith has cracked the code, pointing out that the transition to renewable energy generation and household electrification will save consumers money. Griffith founded Rewiring Australia and Rewiring America and he’s an advisor to Rewiring Aotearoa, whose CEO Mike Casey has injected decarbonisation as cost-of-living solution into the veins of our body politic. The coalition’s sudden scramble for green energy policy under energy minister Simeon Brown – the public has got the wild idea that they’re anti-environment! – draws heavily from the Rewiring Aotearoa policy work, and the deliberately pragmatic, technocratic message."
Read moreDownload the document herePolitical Power has gone local! Dr Nick Smith, mayor of Nelson and ex-National Party minister, is an early adopter when it comes to electric machines but, through his efforts with the council and his close involvement with the Ratepayer Assistance Scheme, he's also embracing one of Rewiring's core mantras: once you've electrified your own life, electrify someone else's life, too.
Read moreDownloadWhether it's the growing number of electric buses, new electric trains for the lower North Island and City Rail Link, or new electric ferries, we love seeing more electric transport options in our big cities. It's also good to see some of our smaller cities like Palmerston North, Timaru and Nelson going electric and, as is almost always the case, the drivers reckon it's better on electrons. At the Electrify Nelson expo, we spoke with one driver Lee about the city's electric buses. And he definitely wouldn't go back to diesel.
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