The Pacific rising
The response to a changing climate is well advanced in the Pacific, providing lessons for the rest of us, writes Tom McKinlay.
Tom McKinlay
Securing the future
Securing the future
Ngai Tahu’s takiwa encompasses the dry Canterbury Plains, the wet West Coast and sun-baked Marlborough. Kaiwhakahaere Lisa Tumahai tells Tom McKinlay about the iwi’s strategy to tackle...
On our best behaviour
On our best behaviour
We need to change and change big. Environmental psychology can help, Dr Wokje Abrahamse says. Tom McKinlay tries to get his head around it.
On closer inspection
On closer inspection
The small and overlooked becomes larger than life in Suus Agnes Claessen's art, writes Tom McKinlay.
With the current
With the current
The verb to charge can describe rapid movement. But it has other meanings too, reports Tom McKinlay.
Clear view of decade ahead
Clear view of decade ahead
There are two zeros in the date 2020. You’ll have spotted them on the cover.
Confronting the facts in our fiction
Confronting the facts in our fiction
Our times need stories but they need to be told well, novelist Chris Else tells Tom McKinlay.
Moving into the future
Moving into the future
The electric revolution has begun, moving silently through the city’s streets, writes Tom McKinlay.
Nowhere to run to
Nowhere to run to
When the poisons we spill into the environment accumulate in ourselves to critical levels, what then will be the body’s response? A British novelist has sketched one terrifying possibility. Tom...
Hire and higher
Hire and higher
A heady mix of German technology and New Zealand topography provided food for thought on a skiing holiday, Tom McKinlay writes.
Fixing what is broken
Fixing what is broken
Repair cafes are putting the focus back on alternatives to our disposable consumer culture, Tom McKinlay.
Reel take on wealth, inequality
Reel take on wealth, inequality
A new New Zealand film on the work of a French economist strikes at the heart of wealth and power, writes Tom McKinlay.
Our plastics addiction
Our plastics addiction
A new report from the Royal Society paints a picture of a plastic addiction out of control, one our recyclers can do only so much to address, reports Tom McKinlay.
Valuing the local
Valuing the local
In order to care for the environment we must also care for its people, Prof Henrik Moller tells Tom McKinlay.
The last great rush
The last great rush
Climate fiction has exploded in recent years, telling tales of sunken worlds and dust-bowl post-civilisations. Now, in a new novel, it’s Otago’s turn to have its future told.
Profit with a purpose
Profit with a purpose
The possibility that money can do good is gaining attention, writes Tom McKinlay.
The past is present
The past is present
Maori are employing intergenerational traditional knowledge to face new environmental challenges. There are clearly lessons for the wider community, Tom McKinlay learns.
Fleshing out the future
Fleshing out the future
The world of food production is changing, from the paddock to the lab and other newly engineered environments. It’s something we might need to get used to, food scientist Prof Rickey Yada tells Tom McKinlay.
From boys to men
From boys to men
Clementine Ford's visit to Dunedin went without incident. That's if you don't count body blows to the patriarchy as incidents, Tom McKinlay writes.
The laws of science and politics
The laws of science and politics
The Zero Carbon Bill has a new name and some more detail. After its unveiling this week, scientists weighed in on its strengths and weaknesses. Tom McKinlay summarises.