I'm a green voter and small business owner and I weigh up and make choices that in my mind will have the best outcome for the planet and all that live on it.

So Rogers Rabbits we have some things in common. I was brought up in a very conservative home in the 1950s-1960s, where we all reused, recycled, mended, grew vegetables and walked to school.

How green is that? We were constantly mindful of those who had less and helped with and gave to charities, local and overseas. Hope I'm not sounding holier than anyone but that's what we all did.

Life has become more complicated.

Now I have to consider agricultural pollutants, tourism, impact of leisure activities, crop pollination, climate mitigation, people begging on streets, children without lunches, rivers not fit to swim in, exploitation of farm animals, degradation of native forests and constant threats to marine environments.

I vote Green because I care deeply about all these matters and the Greens have good detailed policy concerning them.

Julia Milne, Matua.