Category: environment

The overwhelming brobdingnagian Grand Canyon: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 2

I did not take this photo. I’m not much of a photographer, and I most certainly could not imagine capturing the Grand Canyon in a way that came close to expressing what it is like to be there. We left Las Vegas at 12.15am in the hope of getting to the Canyon before the sunrise.… Read More The overwhelming brobdingnagian Grand Canyon: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 2

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Train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise: Kiwirail and our climate future

I caught the Northern Explorer from Palmerston North to Hamilton. As I waited on the platform, I looked at the tracks below me. At one point where two tracks joined, someone had folornly spraypainted a health and safety hazard: a bolt that was halfway out of its hole, opposite another bolt that had completely fallen out,… Read More Train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise: Kiwirail and our climate future

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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

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