Can New Zealand transition to a plant-based future?
By Grant Galbreath New Zealand needs to fall in love with plant-based foods. We’re already great at growing plants for food but it’s not plants we seem to get excited about. No self-respecting sausage-sizzle bothers with a veggie option, and eggs-bene just isn’t...
Is the University of Auckland becoming more sustainable?
By Eloise Young Over the past few decades, Auckland University has been monitoring their carbon emissions and rates of sustainability to reduce the environmental impact of both the university and New Zealand. Has it been working? Over the past few decades Auckland...
Q+A: Eating the Past: What are the biophysical limits to New Zealand’s future?
What are the biophysical limits to New Zealand’s food and energy future? Mike Joy says people need to do a lot less of what they are doing now if New Zealand is to have a sustainable future. Joy says we need to change the way we live if we are to avert a significant...
Q+A: Is it time to stop using cars?
A recent report from a team of researchers based at the University of Otago has found that our use of cars is harming both our health and our environment. The report, titled Turning the Tide, claims that urgent steps are needed to encourage New Zealanders to walk,...
How wholesome is your local wholefoods store?
By Morgan Renata How wholesome is your local wholefoods store? Morgan Renata investigates. On Apirana Avenue in Glen Innes, little more than 100 metres apart from one another sit two supermarkets: one sports something of a household name after 30+ years of servicing...
Could insects be the answer to food insecurity?
By Jodie Hayes With more scientists saying we should give up meat for the sake of the environment, are insects the answer to food insecurity? Entomophagy – the consumption of insects – has been gaining popularity in many Western countries as an environmentally...
Q+A: 100% global renewable energy: Is it possible?
Marc Jacobson has been working to take the world to 100% renewable energy by 2050, which he argues can slow down climate change and reverse some of the damage. Maria Armoudian spoke to Jacobson, co-founder of the Solutions Project, about his ongoing work to counter...
What are the solutions to food insecurity? 🔊
Climate change, pesticide contamination, soil-depletion, loss of land, power politics, mass pollinator die-offs, and a host of big business practices threaten the long-term availability of healthy food. In part two of this symposium on the future of food, Maria...
Are countries and cities running out of water?
By Anna Kucirkova Anna Kucirkova outlines the problems associated with water scarcity, what cities are being hit the hardest by it, and how we can solve the ongoing global water crisis. There is a water crisis. Because water covers 70% of our planet, we tend to think...Subscribe by Email
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