The top image of the Berlin Wall by Sharon Emerson is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. The previous post on this topic commented on the implications of Mark Carney's Davos speech. I am encouraged that the vision he began to articulate about a multipolar world raises the possibility of collective global action that … Continue reading The Return of “Middle Powers”
The Kai Sovereignty project funded by the NRC's Climate Communities Resilience Fund continues into 2026. You can read our report Our Food Web here. We are refining our strategy through action to promote local, regenerative food systems. This way, the more we do, the more we learn, and more people's insights help us to ground … Continue reading Kai sovereignty update, Summer 2026
The Regenerative Shift:Rethinking Kiwifruit & Avocado Soils Field Day – Tuesday 24 February 2026 | MaungatapereFree Coffee from 9:30am • BBQ at the CloseSupported by Quorum Sense Outline of Topics Join us for an in-depth exploration of regenerative practices in kiwifruit orcharding. We'll dive into four key topics, with 30 minutes dedicated to each. To … Continue reading Regenerative Kiwifruit Field Day
For much of the past three decades, climate change has been treated as a policy problem sitting alongside others: environment, energy, development. That framing is no longer adequate. Climate is now entangled with food systems, energy security, migration, public health, finance, polarisation and conflict – what many now describe as the meta-crisis: overlapping systemic stresses … Continue reading Climate policy and the rise of the middle powers
The United States has the most expensive health care in the OECD. In 2023 per person health costs were $US13,432, with the comparable country average at $US7,393.[1] Despite spending nearly twice the OECD average on health care, the United States performs poorly on avoidable mortality, chronic disease burden, and healthy life expectancy, indicating weak value … Continue reading Food is medicine
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