How to Fall in Love with the Future: Excerpt
“This book will lift your spirits and give you hope”
– Brian Eno
what if…?
Book Review: David Holmgren’s ‘RetroSuburbia’
The ‘what if?’ at the heart of RetroSuburbia is “what if our suburbs were reimagined and repurposed to be sustainable, productive and vibrant?” Good question. – Rob Hopkins
Budget Day: there are real alternatives
Budget Day, where our centre left neoliberal government straddles the line between compassion and BAU. Given the pressures of climate, the pandemic and global instability, what are the real alternatives?
Longing for a low carbon future
It’s the question that obsesses me, how to cultivate a deep cultural longing for a post-carbon, more just, more equal world?
– Transitions Town pioneer Rob Hopkins
What if… Dunedin no longer needed so much petrol?
It’s 2032, and we’re looking back at a decade of oil, climate and economic crisis, and how one city found a way through.
The approaching fuel crisis: what if we no longer needed so much petrol?
What would our society, communities and lives look like in New Zealand if we weren’t so reliant on fossil fuels?
Holding our covid nerve
and keeping the faith.
That our covid response is not working out perfectly doesn’t mean we or the government are failing. What we need more of at this point are stories about ‘what if things work out’. Not in a Pollyanna or return to BAU sense, but that we can still be ok. We need strong narratives of what that might be like, us being ok despite the pandemic.
What if all New Zealanders had enough to live on?
Rather than economics, can we talk about the values that underlie how we manage the country?