An essay about my bike, the ritual of preparation and the meaning of objects.

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?

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.

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?

Could less be more? This is an exploration of a bold new future. It’s chunky, so grab a cuppa.

How the quest for a nicely fitting knicker suit changed the world.

A used-to-be-bar that somehow still is, a small wooden stage, a mic on a stand, a moment alone.

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.

How to dance on a liquid spaceship at the bottom of the world. Words and some pictures exploring Riverton’s surf scene.

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.

The unlikely journeys of an Antarctic hut.

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.

Sprinting starkers for charity in the shadow of the Darran mountains. For 1964.

An exploration of the weird and wonderful world of whitebait

A book for kids and grown ups, written for special friends.

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.

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 writing is on the wall for the tiny town of Oturehua.

Exploring sustainability in New Zealand's restaurant industry.

An insight into a mysterious art with fourth-generation Arrowtown taxidermist, David Jacobs

Composting plays a huge role in the fight against climate change, but how do we inspire people to actually do it?