Contagion Magic
An essay about my bike, the ritual of preparation and the meaning of objects.
Wao Summit: Waste not, want not.
We’re chucking way too much food in the bin. Whether it’s scraps or perfectly edible kai, burying food is an environmental catastrophe, and a waste of a powerful resource. So how can we put it to better use?
Wao Summit: Why offsetting is not the answer.
Offsetting: it’s the talk of town. Tick the green box, buy some carbon offsets. Make no other changes to business as usual. It’s almost too good to be true.
Wao Summit: We’ve just got to get out of the car.
To meet our emissions targets, we have to halve the amount of time we spend in our cars. For a little perspective, driving 500 metres in the car equates to roughly one kilogram of glacial ice melt. So how do we make them less seductive?
Degrowth: is this where capitalism comes to die?
Could less be more? This is an exploration of a bold new future. It’s chunky, so grab a cuppa.
Ode to Port Emo
A used-to-be-bar that somehow still is, a small wooden stage, a mic on a stand, a moment alone.
Eastwest Yoga Auckland
Nau mai haere mai. Welcome to our inner-city sanctuary. Your space to connect with breath, body and mind. We look forward to practising with you.
Nau mai haere mai. Welcome to our inner-city sanctuary. Your space to connect with breath, body and mind. We look forward to practising with you.
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How to dance on a liquid spaceship
How to dance on a liquid spaceship at the bottom of the world. Words and some pictures exploring Riverton’s surf scene.
A Living Tapestry
For decades, this botanist, teacher, mother, partner and lifelong advocate for beauty has gardened through all of life’s joys and difficulties, imbuing her villa with the memory of many lives lived.
Mickey Ross
Mickey Ross is a brilliant wedding photographer based in Wānaka. His photos are awesome, but he needed some help with his words for his new website. For Brand & Butter.
When the white gold’s running
An exploration of the weird and wonderful world of whitebait
Edible Earth Journal: How good soil helps our climate
We talk a lot about carbon these days. Too much up there, not enough under our feet. And yes, it’s super important to draw carbon from the atmosphere (where there’s an excess) and fix it into the ground instead. It’s fantastic, actually.
Edible Earth Journal: The world beneath our feet
Soil is the great enabler of life. An earthy substance that smells incredible and gets under your fingernails in the best way. Every gardener can attest to the mood-lifting qualities of putting their fingers in the dirt, and soil bacteria has actually been shown to stimulate the production of serotonin, one of our happy hormones.
The ‘S’ word: can your dinner help to fix the food system?
Exploring sustainability in New Zealand's restaurant industry.