Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete the 2025 Lemmy.nz Census survey! Apologies it has taken me this long to get it out. There were a lot of questions, though once I got some good base python scripts the analysis speed started to pick up.
For a while I’ve been working on an offline topo maps site for NZ and its finally in a state worth sharing.
- mountains and routes from ClimbNZ
- hut locations
- slope angle for assessing avalanche danger
- 3d view
Two million people drink water from the Waikato. Thousands swim in it, fish from it and gather mahinga kai (traditional food gathering) along its length. Iwi have obligations to it that stretch across generations.
As a country with plentiful food and electricity primarily generated from renewable sources, our main difficulties in coming months will be logistical rather than a shortage of basic calories or electricity – we live at the ends of the earth far from where most products are made and most of our transport and freight is still fossil-fuel based.
I, like tens of thousands of NZers, fill in the NZ Attitudes and Values survey each year. This is their annual newsletter, and it covers some of the results of the survey from last year.
For all its imperfections, the Clean Car Discount scheme started in 2021 was shifting the needle. Over its life, the scheme put 192,000 rebates into the hands of New Zealanders buying cleaner vehicle
I’ve just started a project of mapping out the independent music ecosystem in Aotearoa, and I’ve been trying to find local independent music forums to list. There used to be a bunch, like punkas.com, and HTown.co.nz, but those parrots are stone dead, and I can’t find any live ones so far. Surely at least some of the kiwi DIY music communities have online space that aren’t on FarceBook or DarthReddit (’I have changed the deal on API access, pray I don’t change it futher’)? But I’ve tried the somewhat skeletal search systems in both PieFed and Lemmy, and so far, tumbleweeds.
A Department of Conservation (DoC) livestream of a nesting Kākāpo on a remote island off the coast of the South Island, has attracted international attention.
What is everyone’s thoughts on holding parents liable for damages caused by a minor, in particular when committing a criminal act? I think it would give an incentive to know what their children are doing at night.
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has been forced to rein in an AI-powered customer service assistant after users reported it had been rambling about its mother.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed officials were in talks with the US on the requirements and scope of an Enhanced Border Security Partnership (EBSP).
NZ first are on to something with their bill for much harsher penalties for people who own dogs that attack someone, it happens far too often, and owners are far too casual about the damage a dog can do.
When the plant failed on February 4, sewage backed up in the main outfall pipeline and flooded the lower floors of the facility. For two days, raw sewage was released from an outfall only five metres from shore at one of the capital city’s most popular kaimoana (seafood) gathering sites.
I just thought I’d let people know that you can watch the winter olympics on Sky Open, which is a free channel Sky has. If you have actual Sky I think you have more options over what events you can watch.
A flood of “fake NZ news” pages are swamping social media with misleading slop, including using AI to animate still photos of a Mount Maunganui landslide victim.
Bosco the French bulldog, known for ripping it up on his surfboard, returned to the moana in Paihia this Waitangi Day, flying the He Whakaputanga flag before the annual waka celebrations.
A passenger aboard a tourist boat that ran aground outside Akaroa Heads on Banks Peninsula on Saturday says some on board were panicked and crying, when they realised the vessel was in trouble.
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