When oil shortages loom it makes sense to want our country to be more self-reliant. It seems obvious our country should rapidly install solar power and wind turbines at scale. Or does it? What makes sense for a home may not make sense for a country.
Without a sewage system a city, or a vessel is…in the shit? Wellington’s sewage situation is anything but rosy. As is the plight of the USS Ford, bobbing of the coast of Iran with barely a head to piss in.
We all have our rituals for events like Xmas, even people who don’t think they have any…
How tragic is a ‘natural’ disaster? Does it depend on what is lost? Or when it happened? Is sadness about natural disasters another tilt at preventing inevitable change?
Shane Jones says regional councils should be disestablished because they’re full of demonic egg beaters. What are demonic egg beaters? Should they be disestablished?
There’s gold fever in the air in Central Otago as Santana Minerals pushes their gold mining consent forward in the Fast Track application process. Why do we love gold so much?
Changes to the New Zealand research funding meeting may spell the end of my career but, more importantly, what do they spell for research and science?
Why has NZ repaired a bell tower for $10 million, then fired the only person who can ring the bells? And why has Fonterra sold off all its added value products? So many mysteries in todays world…
I’m on top of Mt Alta. Do I need to know how many minutes it took me to get there? Or how high I have climbed? Has technology addicted us to counting things that don’t matter?
We’re getting ready for a bikepacking trip in Mongolia. How might this be this similar to preparing for a doomsday event?
