Where the parties sit on waste
Some parties are wasting the opportunity this election presents, writes Gina Dempster.
Life & Style
Resilient: Activist profiles
Resilient: Activist profiles
Social entrepreneurs strive to address pressing social and environmental issues while creating economic opportunities. Maureen Howard asks six how they include doing good in what they do.
Getting the job dung
Getting the job dung
A humble beetle could be the catalyst that brings town and country together to create better farms and cleaner waterways, Henrik Moller tells Tom McKinlay.
Pressing reset
Pressing reset
Billions are being spent on Covid-19, but Govt money also needs to tackle ecological emergencies. Doing both can be good for jobs, communities and the economy. Maureen Howard finds out why.
Living streams
Living streams
The life in our streams and rivers has long helped us monitor their health. Now scientists are looking to it again — and in particular, macroinvertebrate life — to tell us whether pesticide use is bringing a new crisis.
Inducing a conscience
Inducing a conscience
Aramoana artist Adrian Hall reflects on nature, climate change and the vantage point gained from living in a low-lying coastal community, Maureen Howard writes.
Home on the hill
Home on the hill
The interior of this Dunedin home has a Scandinavian feel but the bush-clad setting is quintessential New Zealand. Kim Dungey takes a look.
A walk on the wildlife side
A walk on the wildlife side
You need not go far to get away from it all, writes Scott Willis.
Crossing paths
Crossing paths
We know walking and cycling is good for us and the planet, but it’s not always made easy. Maureen Howard talks to those sweating the small stuff to make it a viable choice.
Wrapping up the plastic
Wrapping up the plastic
To move from "throwaway" to "no away" will require a system-wide change in how we use resources. Maureen Howard finds out why we are at a pivotal point.
Plant-based parenting
Plant-based parenting
Young parents are treading gently on the earth as they raise their children. Hagar Ozri talks to a couple — her son and his partner — raising a plant-based son.
First, look after the water
First, look after the water
A new approach to the country’s waterways may finally restore their mana, writes Tom McKinlay.
Shags for sure
Shags for sure
Some often overlooked birds are a wonderful example of our region’s diversity, writes Hamish Spencer.
Right size for a full life
Right size for a full life
Dunedin is home to a small but growing number of apartments. Kim Dungey talks to a couple who own one of them and who enjoy living with less.
Fired up about wood
Fired up about wood
We still burn a lot of coal to ward off the cold and to fuel industry, despite the price in carbon emissions. But as Maureen Howard reveals, there’s a cleaner, plentiful alternative.
Seeds of hope
Seeds of hope
As our climate and ecological crises deepen, attention has been turning to viable and efficient ways to restore natural ecosystems. Maureen Howard talks to volunteers restoring native beech forest to slopes of Wakatipu Basin.
Kelp needs our help
Kelp needs our help
Our struggling underwater forests are critical to the health of coastal marine ecosystems.
An art to profit us all
An art to profit us all
The icons of a politically charged environmental spirituality are taking to the street, writes Tom McKinlay.
Life holds promise
Life holds promise
Leaving fossil fuels unburned remains the first urgent priority of climate action, but protecting and restoring natural ecosystems will also be critical, according to a recent review of the scientific literature.
In the know
In the know
Knowledge held by Maori provides insights the future can not do without, Tom McKinlay writes.