My hearing aids got tuned today and I’m getting used to the new volume. I’ve never been so annoyed at loud diesel engines walking down the street. The sooner we rid the world of internal combustion engines, the better, if only for having some peace and quiet!!!!

Fantastic.

Te Ara Tupua achieves the gold standard for infrastructure: it’s nice enough for parents to let their kids play independently. wellyclimatenerd.net/riding-from-...

Here’s a question: should Z Energy be allowed to be part of the Climate leaders Coalition when they’re actively lobbying to remove their own liability for climate change? Ffs. climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/about/signat...

In other news, my overdue OIA into the LNG terminal should be out Monday. !!

My bike got stolen last year, so I was curious how many bikes and scooters actually get recovered in Wellington. wellyclimatenerd.net/oia-bike-and...

Now Cuba St precinct go go go

Billions of dollars. The costliest stretch of mega-motorway ever proposed in New Zealand. And so wildly over-scoped that simply *letting the public see the benefit-cost ratio* might be the end of it? Another major story broken by @connorsharp.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/05/21/w...

wtf!!!

Weird question but does being on super count as fixed income if it rises with wage inflation? Wouldn’t low income be a better term? My pay is fixed week to week and isn’t guaranteed to rise each year due to inflation. Super is guaranteed to do so. Am I misunderstanding the term?

Another banger by Marc Daalder. Time for GIDI 2.0, designed to get as many industries off gas before supplies run out?

Getting sick and hacking up a lung on Te Ara Tupua day was not on my vision board God gives her rootinest challenges to her tootinest cowboys Sucks so much to miss an amazing day, but I love that I could experience it vicariously 😭

I presented to the council about bike lanes yesterday, and yes I did try to make it funny so councillors would remember it after 9 hours of submissions www.youtube.com/live/d-kSnIb...

FYI wellington.govt.nz/-/media/your...

Protected cycling infrastructure can be enabling. ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Once again: close an area to cars, business *increases*. Every time. And yet every new proposal to close an area to cars meets the same resistance from business owners. I'm starting to wonder whether business owners really are rational self-interest maximizers, I tell you!

lol Wellington city council is voting tomorrow whether to bin their organic waste collection service. Conservatively, this service would save more emissions than the sludge minimisation plant. 2400 tonnes CO2e

Let’s join the rest of the world and eschew petrostate pressure. Let’s become an electrostate. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

This completely tracks for me. The opportunity to be a hands-on, active father was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Actively parenting young children was the happiest I've ever been in my life. I feel *terrible* for previous generations of men who denied themselves the pleasure.

Go on anti bike people, engage. Comment. It just spreads the good word against car dependence in an oil crisis further. Ehehehehehe

My bike lane reel broke containment. Pray for me. The asshole bots are coming

Finding out I was considered "radical" for wanting kids to be able to get school safely and independently was shocking and what motivated me to try and help change that perspective. Culture Shift developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Sigh. Do I have to tap the sign again wellyclimatenerd.net/pothole-kill...

We have discovered, yet again, that pedestrianization *raises* traffic to stores & *boosts* sales. All the fear-mongering was baseless! I'm sure this time the lesson will stick & the *next* group of merchants around the *next* proposed pedestrian street won't raise a bunch of nonsense objections!

In the UK, solar farms are becoming bird havens.

The Climate Commission of NZ recommended including international aviation and shipping in our carbon budgets, as well as opting for net negative emissions by 2050. The Government said no.

Here is a version for local use of the amount of officially declared States of Emergency for climate related reasons

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

This is why it’s much more expensive to ignore climate change. How in the hell do you build infrastructure that handles 10x our expected heavy rainfall???

Waking up to some pretty fucking scary images of flooding in Newtown, at the basin, all through Wellington. Can we please decarbonise? This is the beginning. Our politicians can choose the ending.

Can’t wait for this election to become the “electrify everything” election.

AHAHAHAHA OMG the sludge minimisation facility, which is the biggest investment into climate mitigation in the city’s history, will reduce Wellington’s emissions by 0.2%. 2000 tonnes a year. It will cost $500m, the same as like… what? Half price e-bikes for 166,000 people?

lol. Z is for stuff we are forced to need (diesel) at prices that we can’t afford ($3.89 a litre)

Just recorded me tagging onto the train with my phone like four times… either the trips will be cancelled or I have single handedly solved Metlink’s financial issues

Beautiful essay from @marcdaalder.bsky.social to enjoy in this morning calm before the storm newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/11/s...

I’m gonna do an A/B test of thumbnails on YouTube to try get the video doing better. I’ve always found my life is better when it’s silly so I made this

I’m really gutted to hear Mevo is in voluntary administration. Hell, I got my full license to use their service. My fingers are crossed it can rise like a phoenix from the ashes. wellyclimatenerd.net/mevo-is-in-v...

So uh, are we still trying to save a few dollars on the weekly rates bill because I feel like diesel doubling in price is gonna mean drastic cuts to council services if we don’t raise revenue

Fun fact about daylight saving, it was proposed by George Hudson, a Wellingtonian bug nerd who wanted more time in the evenings to look for little bugs. Even tho I dislike daylight savings I’m engaged to a bug nerd so I mad respect it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Dixon, Cuba, Manners, Abel Smith, Wigan, Leeds, Ghuznee, it should all be closed to cars immediately. Have a 1/10th sized CubaDupa every weekend. A market for every queer crafty person in this gorgeous city. Pedestrianise, not in five years, now.

Had a yarn with @kaseymcdonnell.co.nz about Auckland Council and Wellington City Council's Annual Plans! Curious what people think! Should we do more? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGNy...

Does anyone know an expert in council traffic resolutions who could sense check my understanding of how they work? My gut feeling is some effective leverage of regulatory process powers could be helpful to big street changes in welly!

Diesel inflation means food price inflation. We need to be prepared to lower cost elsewhere (cough, car dependency and petrol usage) so poorer families can weather the coming food price rise.

Please please please govt just cancel the LNG terminal, the karmic events will continue until we learn our lesson

Some draft newsletters I should’ve published earlier are now a little stale news wise. So I’m just publishing them as articles, like this one wellyclimatenerd.net/where-is-the...

Save money! Bike where you can!

This is the ticket. Build the infrastructure and you necessarily build an electorate willing to fight for it.

One thing this oil crisis is teaching me is how much money most New Zealanders pay for car dependency. I pay $240 *a year* to service my bike. That’s one tank of petrol for a hilux. Wtf? www.stuff.co.nz/money/360950...