From interviews to conversations
If ‘inter’ means ‘between’ then hopefully a good interview is more than just taking information and then departing. There’s a great poem by Bill Manhire (the title eludes me) that […]
If ‘inter’ means ‘between’ then hopefully a good interview is more than just taking information and then departing. There’s a great poem by Bill Manhire (the title eludes me) that […]
The language we overlay on to our surroundings reveal our cultural biases. The words assigned to landforms describe positive and negative states of being. Mountains. Reaching the pinnacle of success. […]
Community-based environmental monitoring or just volunteer monitoring forms a subset of activities under the umbrella of citizen science. It’s about people, community members, non-scientists getting out there and collecting data. […]
This government seems unable to join the dots between environmental health and economic prosperity. That one relies on the other. They could do with a bunch of ecologists in the […]
Domestic flights (when the opportunity comes up) bring the landscape back into focus, and help stitch together visual fragments collected from road travel through the region. The absolute flatness of […]
A recent Listener article got me thinking about serendipity. Having a long-term fascination for the word itself, it immediately conjures up exotica entwined with unpredictability and happy-go-lucky endings. To take […]
INNOVATIONING encapsulated the spirit of a recent Landcare Networking Day hosted by the NZ Landcare Trust, Waikato Regional Council, the Whakaupoko Landcare and the David Johnstone Pukemokemoke Bush Reserve Trust. […]
How do talks within the space of a week by a government minister, an outspoken scientist and an internationally respected NZ artist tie together? Max Gimblett spoke eloquently about his […]
A series of public meetings has been set up by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) to highlight proposed reforms for both the Resource Management Act (1991) and the highly […]
Academia comes with a very specific language. On one hand it’s about bringing together ideas in a very concise form – often meaning heavy use of technical language. On the […]