'An Uncommon Land' longlisted in NZ's most prestigious book awards
'Unafraid to tackle the pressing moments of our past, present and future' It is not every day I stand next to a former Prime Minister, let alone one as world renowned as Jacinda Ardern, but there I am - at least virtually - in the line-up for the Ockham New Zealand Book Award’s General Non-fiction Award . Alongside twelve other books by such literary luminaries and fearless writers as Tina Makeriti, Steve Braunias and Rebecca MacFie. The media release describes the longlist’s
An uncommon land
Exploring enclosure, colonisation and denaturing through an ancestral past, towards the possibilities of a re-commoned future This week,...
"Can we fix it?" Seminar recording now available!
This week I presented a seminar hosted by Engineering New Zealand. Employing Bob the Builder's catch-phrase, I argue that yes, we can...
Which way to the future? The economics of sufficiency or more recycling and EVs?
This week I chatted with journalists Bernard Hickey and Cathrine Dyer about the economics of sufficiency on The Kaka. We covered a lot of...
Upcoming webinar: Pathway to a post-growth economy
It is my pleasure and privilege to be presenting this upcoming seminar hosted by the School of People and Environment, Massey University....
We need to start using the ‘C’ word
My latest article on Newsroom discusses the idea of collapse and the possibility that it is already happening. Is there anything more...
The transition to an ‘economy of enough’
My latest article on Newsroom asks what if we made sufficiency a central guiding principal of our economy, as countries such as France...
The perpetual myth of perpetual growth
In this piece on Newsroom, I argue that just as the architects of our current economic system designed the system around perpetual...
Why ‘green growth’ won’t save the world
I originally pitched this short opinion piece to Stuff to follow on from an earlier piece on degrowth. However, when I submitted the...
As the climate crisis deepens, is degrowth the only pathway out?
This article was published in the Dominion Post/Stuff on 4 March 2023, two weeks after Cyclone Gabrielle hit, destroying homes,...
