Buying Values
Can money make up for doing the wrong thing? Including climate change? Or are some things too precious to be bought and sold?
Author: Jane Shearer
Solar power
Why did we install PV? To save money? Be good planet-savers? Make our own power? Because we’re geeks? A little of everything?
Where’s COVID at?
Wearing masks is not normal, then it becomes normal, then it becomes not normal again. What is normal in the time of COVID Scrabble variants?
The ladder of luxury
Lawns are a symbol of luxury. Yes, really. Can we free ourselves from chasing appearance of luxury to reduce consumption and simplify our lives?
Travel dilemmas
Travel is one of the best ways of increasing international understanding AND personally contributing to climate change … what to do?
Power of the People
New Zealand is a country where you can change the course of an election by asking someone a question …
When Things Don’t Work
There’s a world of hidden subsidies out there propping our pleasant first world experience of life
Goodbye traffic lights
New Zealand took a major step in its COVID-19 trajectory this week, removing the traffic light system which (theoretically) controlled behaviour according to numbers of cases of COVID-19. Are we glad to see it go?
Inappropriate Incentives
Having bought an EV which we can charge off our PV panels, for the first time in my life I almost like driving. But is this a good thing?