Updated protest schedule 28/5/2023

Friday outside the Fonterra office at Midland Park
Date (12.30-1.30pm)Protest location
2 June 2023Midland Park
9 June 2023Parliament Lawn
16 June 2023Midland Park
23 June 2023Parliament Lawn
30 June 2023Midland Park
7 July 2023Parliament Lawn

If the weather’s looking iffy on a Parliament protest day, we decide on the morning whether to protest at Midland Park instead – which is more sheltered. If we change our location, we will update this post by mid-morning.

Another intergenerational climate strike! Friday 26 May

Climate groups around New Zealand are marching and protesting for climate justice again!

In Wellington, School Strike 4 Climate Wellington is organising this event (FFF only helping out a wee bit this time).

What are their demands?

Their demands are:

  • Reduce emissions now – 50% real reduction by 2030, without relying on offsets
  • Enable 100% transition to regenerative agriculture by 2030
  • Prioritise Te Tiriti-centred climate justice
  • Lower the voting age to 16

Actually, pretty much the same demands as we had for the 3 March climate strike!

Where and when

  • Friday, 26 May
  • Meet at Civic Square at 11am
  • March to Parliament soon after, arriving around noon

Find a strike elsewhere in New Zealand

Visit the SS4C NZ Facebook to find all the strike locations.

Is Welly weather conducive to cycling? Actually, yes.

There’s a perception that it’s too windy and wet to ride your bike regularly in Wellington. But cycling advocate Steve dived into NIWA’s Wellington weather stats from the last few decades. He found that – not only has the amount light wind been more than you’d expect, but it’s remained consistent into the present.

Steve made this infographic after studying NIWA’s weather data* for the year 2010, a typical year from Niwa’s data block of 1981 – 2010. During this 30 year period, the average wind speed was 18.9km per hour (categorised ‘Gentle’ on the Beaufort Wind Scale). The period from 2010 – 2023 has the ‘wind run’ (average wind speed) at 18.6kmh which shows the same conditions apply now.

A similar process was used to extract the rainfall data.

Readings from Centreport’s mast at Glasgow Wharf, and numerous clubs like the outdoor arts groups, corroborate these findings – you can’t use easels and watercolours in wind and rain!

*The information was from NIWA’s “Cliflo” data program, covering the period 1981-2023.