Mike Joy
Mike Joy welcomes swimmable rivers across NZ pledge
A new government plan is aiming at healthy, swimmable rivers and lakes throughout the country within five years. Environment Minister David Parker released a blueprint for improving water quality… Audio
The Future of Food - we can't keep doing what we're doing now
In the first of a three-part series about the future of food four experts on food systems, politics and environmental factors consider what may happen to our food supply: Senior lecturer at Massey… Audio
Is NZ 100% Pure?
The New Zealand '100% Pure' marketing slogan that has angered environmentalists is getting a shakeup. The slogan has been controversial since it was challenged in a 2012 New York Times interview with… Audio
'It's a win-win' - Mike Joy on planned dairy pollution rules
A complicated debate around clean waterways and dairy farms could ensue after the environment minister David Parker told us this morning he plans to crack down on nutrient run-off from farm. We talk… Audio
Christchurch water chlorination 'ambulance at bottom of cliff'
A leading freshwater ecologist is criticising planned chlorination of Christchurch's water supply as a last resort, or ambulance-at-the-bottom-of-a-cliff approach. The city council is being forced to… Audio
NIWA, Dairy NZ want database of riverbank planting
Despite years of planting by streams and rivers it's unknown how many waterways still require work or even whether the riparian buffers are helping clean up the water. NIWA and Dairy NZ want anyone… Audio
Ecologist Mike Joy: cleaning up our waterways
With a growing number of our lakes and rivers unsafe for swimming - and some beaches too, eco-warrior Dr Mike Joy is determined to get more people behind cleaning up our waterways. Audio
Primary Industries Minister is decades late for clean rivers
Nathan Guy says there's a limit to how many dairy cows New Zealand can handle and the industry's future will rely on increasing the value rather than the volume of exports, as Jacob McSweeny reports. Audio
Guy: Limit to how much dairy intensification NZ can handle
The Primary Industries Minister, Nathan Guy, says there's a limit to how much dairy intensification New Zealand can handle and the industry needs to concentrate on increasing the value of exports, not… Audio
Ecologist, Mike Joy criticises govts swimmable rivers target
The Government today announced a target of 90 per cent of New Zealand's lakes and rivers meeting swimmable water quality standards by 2040, alongside releasing new policy, regulations, information… Audio
Would you eat steak grown in a lab?
Would you eat steak grown in a lab?
With the supply of fossil fuels used for fertilisers dwindling, the question is once again being posed: how do we make sure we have have enough food to feed the… Audio
What are you reading?
Mike Joy an environmental scientist. He talks about Secret Histories; finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop by Emma Larkin and Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat by Peter… Audio
Whitebait debate: Mike Joy
There are concerns our whitebait stocks are on the decline and more needs to be done to protect the delicacy. Freshwater ecologist Mike Joy believes that we should be putting controls in place to keep… Audio
Ecologist say ignoring land use effects on water fatal flaw
A freshwater ecologist says avoiding the effects of dairy farming on water quality could be a fatal flaw of the inquiry into the Havelock North water crisis. Audio
Hawke's Bay campylobacter outbreak
Mike Joy of Massey University talks about how much farming practices could be responsible for the Hawk'e Bay water contamination. Audio
Who owns the water in the bottle?
Water supplied to bottling companies for next to nothing has a growing number of New Zealanders upset. Audio
Scientist says Ministry misleading public over water quality
Water scientist Mike Joy, claims the Environment Ministry is misleading the public with statements on its website that freshwater quality is 'stable or improving'. Audio
Simon's A-Z
A to Z takes us to Foxton, a town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region. The town is located on the lower west coast of the North Island, in the Horowhenua district, 30 km southwest of Palmerston North and… Audio
New measures proposed to protect longfin eels
A new plan to protect the longfin eel has been announced by the government but it's already being criticised by some ecologists for not going far enough. Audio
