Tom McKinlay

In the Rocketman’s wake

It's a miraculous day when your hero calls, Tate Sheridan tells Tom McKinlay.

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.

Securing the future

Kaiwhakahaere Lisa Tumahai tells Tom McKinlay about Ngai Tahu's strategy to tackle climate change in diverse landscapes.

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

The small and overlooked becomes larger than life in Suus Agnes Claessen's art, writes Tom McKinlay.

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

There are two zeros in the date 2020. You’ll have spotted them on the cover.

Time for action

As we hit the critical decade in the effort to curb planetary heating, it might just be that we're ready to act. writes Tom McKinlay.

Best of 2019: Confronting the facts in our fiction

Chris Else describes an uncertain future in his new novel Waterlines. Photo: Gregor Richardson

Best of 2019: 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

The electric revolution has begun, moving silently through the city’s streets, writes Tom McKinlay.

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

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

Repair cafes are putting the focus back on alternatives to our disposable consumer culture, Tom McKinlay.

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

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

In order to care for the environment we must also care for its people, Prof Henrik Moller tells Tom McKinlay.

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

The possibility that money can do good is gaining attention, writes Tom McKinlay.

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.

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.

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