

Perhaps the most vital lesson from environmental history?
In my last post, I wrote about how environmental history can help us to progress discussions about fresh water today - one of the...


How we divide our landscape
Perhaps nowhere tells more starkly of the duality in our relationship towards the natural environment than Taranaki: the dichotomy of the...


How we 'denature' nature
The fact that a 'drain' is a 'waterway' first occurred to me when I was in my late 20s, when I worked in an industrial part of...

What's in Rivers?
A few people have asked what New Zealand's Rivers is about - which is a reasonable question. By way of answering this, here is a...