It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

The Guardian reported on 14 March that applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center and others have had a research article accepted for publication in Ecological Economics based on their work with a new cross-disciplinary ‘Human And Nature DYnamical’ (HANDY) model. You can read it yourself, but here’s the short version. Briefly, the HANDY model looks… Read More It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

The Weakest Link: Studylink, student loans and work-oriented qualifications

I’m in the last paper of my Post-Graduate Diploma in Theology through the University of Otago. It’s been a long road, as I have worked full-time the majority of the time that I have studied towards the qualification, and also last year Otago’s papers dropped from 30 points a paper to 20 points a paper, meaning that… Read More The Weakest Link: Studylink, student loans and work-oriented qualifications