
George Driver
South Island Correspondent at North and South Magazine
Freelance journalist based in Central Otago.
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3 weeks ago |
wildernessmag.co.nz | George Driver
Walk1200km helped this walker to cope with the loss of his wife of 57 years. After starting Walk1200km in his mid-eighties while recovering from surgery, Pat Sale has just completed the challenge once more, ticking off 3000km at age 89. Sale read about Walk1200km while convalescing from surgery for a stent placement that had resulted in a perforated artery near the heart. “I came pretty close to the line of going to the other side,” Sale recalls.
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3 weeks ago |
wildernessmag.co.nz | George Driver
Read more from the June 2025 Issue Mark Woods is still trying to piece together what happened on the day his Te Araroa Trail journey ended. He was in the final weeks of the six-month tramp of his life when a fall very nearly made it his last. Woods had been joined by a friend, a novice tramper.
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2 months ago |
wildernessmag.co.nz | George Driver
A once paralysed Walk1200km participant shares how she walked nearly 6000km!Five years ago Jo Booker was paralysed and in intensive care after contracting a rare illness. Now she’s finished her first year of the Walk1200km challenge, averaging more than 100km a week while raising money to protect native species. In late 2019, Booker, who lives in Arrowtown, got a bout of flu that progressed to Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the nervous system.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Henry Whyte |John Sinclair |George Driver
Smoke & Mirrors: What’s gone wrong with the ETS? The emissions trading scheme is meant to be the country’s main tool for reducing our emissions, but critics say it’s doing little more than carpeting the country in permanent pine forest. Meanwhile, the price of carbon credits has gone from boom to bust. What’s gone wrong? By George Driver
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Oct 15, 2024 |
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |George Driver
At 9am on September 4, an online auction began. On offer was a product that should lure the most powerful companies in the country. It was selling neither super yachts or Monets, but the right to put 7.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air. This should be a scarce commodity in hot demand. Every time someone in New Zealand burns fossil fuels, at some point in the supply chain a company has bought a carbon credit to account for it — a permit that allows the owner to emit a tonne of CO2.
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