If shipments of food suddenly stop reaching our shores would we have enough food to feed ourselves?
Dr Catherine Knight
Dr Catherine Knight is an award-winning writer and policy practitioner who has published several books on the environment, including Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand" (2018)."
Cars should never take priority over people
To crack the transport emissions nut, we would do well to look back at how our urban places used to be – before the advent of the affordable automobile
Collapse is not a dirty word
Opinion: To assume our destruction of the planet’s life-supporting systems lead to anything but collapse is irrational.
The transition to an 'economy of enough'
We need a Sufficiency Commission to meet our needs within biophysical limits
The perpetual myth of perpetual growth
We can redesign the economy around delivering wellbeing to all, within planetary limits
Why our economy is too important to leave to the experts
It's time to demand an economy that works for people and the planet, not the other way round.
Keeping it local for cyclone recovery
It was local institutions such as churches and marae that provided support and hope to the community after the floods.
A pathway out of environmental collapse
The burning of fossil fuels and destruction of ecosystems has led to the precipice of a catastrophe. How do we step away from the precipice?
The future must use less energy and have more of the things that really matter
Dr Catherine Knight argues we must redesign the economy to put human and environmental wellbeing at its centre.
Food security at the heart of our cost of living crisis
If we believe the cost of living crisis is more than a blip, we need policy to encourage bioregionalism