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Degrowth for Regrowth - Day before winter - transform climate change grief art into indigenous tree -

Thursday, 16 June 2022

‘From degrowth to regrowth’

By Simon Henderson

1. The Star

PHOTO: SIMON HENDERSON

Extinction Rebellion member Rosemary Penwarden and Artists Anonymous member Tao Wells are inviting people to transform "climate grief" by creating and then burying a biodegradable piece of art under a native plant.

Mr Wells said the aim was to create an artwork using non-toxic materials, for example chalk, charcoal and recycled cardboard, which would then turn into something new — "from degrowth to regrowth".

Ms Penwarden said by burying the artwork under a native tree provided by Extinction Rebellion, people could transform their feelings of grief or sadness about the state of the planet into something positive.

The event will take place from 3pm to 5pm this Saturday at 941 Blueskin Rd, Mount Cargill.

Art materials will be available and pumpkin soup will be offered for those attending.

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What do you do with your climate grief? Is it something small and manageable, a long way from busy everyday thoughts? A constant low-level anxiety? Or a deep down fear, too scary to look at?
Would you like to join us for an experiment? Starting at 2pm on Saturday 18 June at 941 Blueskin Road (Rosemary and Derek’s place) - rain or shine - we’re going to transform our climate grief into new life.
Will it work?
Who knows??!!
Come anyway!
Come for the company on a wild Waitati hillside to plant trees and drink hot pumpkin soup/tea/coffee/chocolate etc. 

Intros and greetings at 2pm, meet the trees, and we’ll go from there.
If you only want to plant a tree or two with no fussy hippy stuff - welcome!
If you just want to sit around and cry - welcome!
If you want to scream, sing, or be silent - welcome!
If you want to play music - yes please!!
Bring your own message or artwork on biodegradable cardboard or other material. Or not; we’ll have charcoal, chalk and cardboard here.
Look forward to sharing the afternoon with you!

 

Brought to you with Artists Anonymous, a Socialist mental health and critical theory group.

 

18th of June, 2pm to 5pm Rain or shine.
941 Blueskin Road, (on the road to Orokonui)
Ōtepoti/Dunedin
Aotearoa New Zealand

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New Zealand woman creates her own electric car for $24,000

Rosemary Penwarden says the vehicle, powered by home rooftop solar, has been running smoothly for three years and has thanked oil companies for the motivation

New Zealand woman Rosemary Penwarden in her homemade electric car, which is fully signed off and warranted. Photograph: supplied by Rosemary Penwarden

Tess McClure in Auckland

@tessairini

Fri 27 May 2022 13.36 BST

First published on Fri 27 May 2022 04.15 BST

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A New Zealand woman has converted a 29-year-old wreck into a homemade, electric vehicle, “to show it can be done”.

Rosemary Penwarden has been driving her converted vehicle around South Island roads for three years now. The project took her and a friend more than eight months of solid work and tinkering. “You do have to be a little bit mad,” she said. “I want to thank the oil companies for the motivation.”

Penwarden bought a 1993 car body from a wrecker’s, and took the combustion engine out herself. She replaced it with a new gearbox and electric engine, then packed the front and back of the car with batteries – 24 under the hood, and 56 in the boot.

In total the project, including labour, cost Penwarden $24,000 (£12,300). The car is fully signed-off and warranted. After several years on the road, her project recently came to the attention of local reporters.

Rosemary Penwarden says though converting a car isn’t possible for everyone, she wanted to illustrate the possibility. Photograph: supplied by Rosemary Penwarden

Refrigeration engineer Hagen Bruggemann, who helped Penwarden convert her car, has now converted about eight cars to electric engines. “You can talk as much as you want about all this environmental crap, but you have to implement it,” he says.

Without free labour, he says converting a car is not a financially viable option for most people – but there’s a strong commercial argument for converting trucks and larger vehicles, where the body tends to be worth much more than the engine. Converting a diesel truck, he says, would pay off within five years. “Really, the polluters should be paying – I don’t see why they’re not,” he says.

A longtime environmental campaigner, Penwarden says the time and money she devoted to converting her car isn’t possible for everyone – “I’m in a very privileged place” – but as the world adapts to the climate crisis, she wanted to illustrate the possibility. She charges the car at her home, which is fully solar-powered.

While Penwarden believes the car will pay itself off – she had once spent up to $100 a week on petrol for commuting – she says it wasn’t a cost-saving exercise and called on the government to support conversions. “Just to be able to show that it can be done is a priceless thing,” she says. “The biggest thing is to help stop the biggest polluters as soon as possible – and nothing that we can do as individuals I think matters quite as much as that.”

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