1Ice Bound Greenpeace is campaigning to prevent the exploitation of Antarctica's mineral wealth and is calling for the Antarctic to be declared a permanent world park. To this end, Greenpeace is mounting an ambitious campaign to establish its own scientific base on the ice and its flagship Greenpeace is currently on route to Antarctica.

2Cleaning Up the Image Then use of sexual images to sell products is under attack. According to the critics, advertising agencies have been slow to remove sexist ads featuring adults from television screens. However, companies using sexist advertising risk facing a consumer boycott of their products.

3Alternate Watts Having dammed most of New Zealand's available rivers, and burned a substantial amount of natural gas, energy experts are having to make some tough decisions about where additional energy will be sourced from in future.The recently published Official Energy Plan maps out a building programme that stretches to the end of the century. It involves spending hundreds of millions of dollars, although official estimates are being kept under wraps. However, there may be a way to reduce the cost of electricity supplies in the future. A look at some of the natural energy options available to New Zealand, such as solar power.