Our own backyards provide great promise in the push towards predator-free by 2050, but we are going to have to get our hands dirty, writes Maureen Howard.
Because we need to head off climate change, the Government is preparing a Zero Carbon Act. So it's time to identify ways to get ahead of the curve and prepare for low-carbon living. Maureen Howard looks at the options.
Weather events made more severe by climate change will require large-scale responses, but in South Duendin, residents are also growing their resilience one neighbour at a time, writes Maureen Howard.
Rising and more tempestuous seas mean we face hell and high water, says Dunedin writer Neville Peat. He tells Tom McKinlay about the threat and the book he has written in response.
The creativity expressed in art might be more important than the hard data of science when it comes to our processing environmental problems, artist and scientist Jenny Rock tells Maureen Howard....
Ian Melvin and Helga Diettrich say the original coal range, restored and converted to a wood burning range, is the hub of their home, being used for most of their cooking, heating and water heating.
A colourful, vibrant home to 231 young people, Te Pa Tauira-Otago Polytechnic Student Village is an innovative example of sustainability principles, writes Shane Gilchrist.