We need to talk about #IndigenousDataSovereignty#GreenSky#ClimateSky#adapt#AoNZtheconversation.com/nature-marke...

‘Nature markets’ may help preserve biodiversity – but they risk repeating colonial patterns of Indigenous exploitation

Biodiversity credits could unlock new funding for nature restoration. But if this happens without consideration of Indigenous data sovereignty, it could create a new form of colonialism.

You've heard of 'carbon tunnel vision'... At Rewiring Aotearoa, we argue for 'electric-panoptic vision' – that is, an integrated view of opportunities, risks, interconnections and trade-offs. Read our explainer here: www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/peo...

We need #ClimateActionsubstack.toha.network/p/introducin...

Introducing the Time Value of Action

We need action now. As much as possible. As soon as possible.

I've got some comments here on an article that called for "behavioural manipulation" - i.e. the "engineering of consent" by marketing techniques - as maybe "our best chance at avoiding ecological catastrophe." My view, in short, is nah. news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ecol...

Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution: Study

A paper generated by the Merz Institute, an Aotearoa New Zealand-based think tank, and published in the journal Science Progress in 2023, hypothesizes that the environmental crises our planet faces to...

Inaugural report out by Rewiring Aotearoa. In short, electrifying your house will reduce your cost-of-living *and* your contributions to creating a fossil-fuel ravaged hellscape. www.rewiring.nz/electric-hom...

Inaugural report out by Rewiring Aotearoa. In short, electrifying your house will reduce your cost-of-living *and* your contributions to creating a fossil-fuel ravaged hellscape. www.rewiring.nz/electric-hom...

Reports on 2023 GHG emissions and trends are starting to come out, please find attached the social media conversation you are about to have

“Your most truthful contributions to collective reasoning are unlikely to be your own individual arguments, but your useful criticisms of others’ rationales.” (Just the encouragement I needed to reboot one stalled writing project.) www.programmablemutter.com/p/in-praise-...

'Business suits of the future' Auckland Weekly News, 14 March 1929. I wish this had caught on, honestly.

2023 Christmas Message by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac of Bethlehem: "We the Palestinians will recover. We will stand up again from the midst of destruction, as we have always done as Palestinians...But for those who are complicit I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?"