Dr. Jess Berentson Shaw used to be "a frustrated researcher". After a while working across health psychology, she was gathering evidence and promoting ideas to improve the health of some of our most vulnerable. In her career, she’s found compelling evidence about how to fix our trickiest
society
Living centrally in Wellington offers a first hand experience of what urban planners call the 15 minute city. After falling in love with this lifestyle, I want this option available for far more Wellingtonians.
A year on, how is it going?
Living centrally in Wellington offers a first hand experience of what urban planners call the 15 minute city. After falling in love with this lifestyle, I want this option available for far more Wellingtonians.
The sea shapes our identity as New Zealanders. It's warming. Rapidly.
Elections have been about government’s capacity to build for a long time. Before she became PM, Jacinda Ardern grilled Bill English about his Government’s inability to deliver Auckland light rail until the 2040s. She said: If light rail is "a good idea", as he said on
When you travel across Aotearoa, have you noticed the train tracks everywhere? My hometown, Whanganui, has rail weaving through town. It even has a dedicated train bridge in Aramoho. Rail runs along the far north and the deep south. A century ago, people travelled towns and cities by train. Now
Next time you’re in Newtown, take a walk down Hospital Road. Nestled near the Blood Service and behind a kindergarten is something you wouldn’t picture in the central city: a farm. What was an underutilised bit of council land has become a thriving spot for growing kai and
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Over Easter, my partner, my friends and I boarded a 6am flight from Wellington to spend a week in Melbourne. This was a trip of love. Some of our closest friends have moved to the Victorian capital in the last year or so. I totally understand why. The sprawling city
If you need the train on weekends, near public holidays or late at night, you know bus replacements well. When the tracks need work, the trains must stop. Buses are our backup solution to moving people around. We need bus replacements to maintain our railways. Unfortunately, decades of neglect mean
Guess what’s getting cut? Bus lanes, bike lanes, city centre improvements, and footpath improvements. In other words, all the shit that gets people off petrol and into cheap, climate friendly transport.
Low carbon technology is not just the winning solution to our pollution: it's cheaper and better than fossil fuels.
Predator Free's work carries an inspiring lesson: dedicated communities can make impossible visions real.
The sea shapes our identity as New Zealanders. It's warming. Rapidly.
Meet the one bus card to rule them all.
Cities like Wellington aren’t built for a hotter world. Trees can help.
I have great news. The Coalition Government is unlocking a completely untapped renewable energy source that could provide huge amounts of clean power. It looks very similar to what you’ll find atop Brooklyn or nestled in Mākara. It is offshore wind energy – a common way to make electricity in
One of the best purchases I ever made was my e-bike three years ago. I use it nearly every day to drop off library books or cart cardboard boxes across town. It is perfect personal transport. I count on a lovely local shop called Bicycle Junction to keep it in
Wellington has so many good things going. Its glistening harbour, dramatic weather, and stunning people make it my favourite place. I especially adore Wellington because it offers something nowhere else in New Zealand does: the choice to get around however I want. Wellingtonians move around differently to the rest of
