Resources

Climate Action Tai Tokerau produces and curates resources to support practical climate action, systems change, and regenerative transitions in Tai Tokerau. These include reports, strategy documents, discussion papers, and media.

Resources are grouped by theme. Each theme page provides further context and access to full publications.

Kai and Food Systems

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Resources supporting the transition from industrial food systems to regenerative, locally grounded kai systems that strengthen climate resilience, health, and community wellbeing.

Key publications

  • Repairing Our Food Web
    Mapping the regional food system and identifying pathways toward regenerative kai sovereignty.
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  • Kai Sovereignty: Stage Two Overview
    An outline of the 12 interconnected workstreams supporting food system transition in Tai Tokerau.
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Earth Systems

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These resources explore how Earth systems function as interconnected wholes linking land use, vegetation, soils, water cycles, biodiversity, and climate. Understanding these relationships is essential for effective climate action, catchment restoration, and long-term resilience in Te Tai Tokerau.

Key publications

  • How Plants Cool and Heal the Climate (2022): This book by Peter Bruce-Iri explores how vegetation, soils, and water cycles actively regulate climate through biological cooling, carbon–water feedbacks, and ecosystem regeneration — offering a systems-based alternative to emissions-only approaches.
    → Read a brief summary or purchase the book.
  • Climate Kōrero Podcast: Professor David Norton. In this podcast Professor Norton talks about how forests do far more than store carbon — how they moderate temperature, water, and wind — and what’s needed to create more diverse, regenerative landscapes, especially focusing on catchments (watersheds).
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  • The Biotic Pump: Anastassia Makarieva has published extensively on the biotic pump, first described by her and her colleague Victor Gorshkov. This work explores how forests influence atmospheric moisture transport and rainfall patterns, reshaping how we understand land–water–climate interactions.
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Transport and energy

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Transport and energy systems play a central role in climate action, but their impacts extend well beyond emissions alone. Choices about how we move people and goods, how energy is generated and used, and how infrastructure is designed shape community wellbeing, equity, resilience, and long-term resource use.

Climate Action Tai Tokerau’s transport and energy resources focus on practical, systems-level pathways — including electrification, demand reduction, active transport, and low-energy innovation — with particular attention to regional examples from Te Tai Tokerau.

Our curated resources include:

  • regional initiatives supporting walking, cycling, and reduced traffic volumes,
  • household and community electrification through initiatives such as Electrify Te Tai Tokerau,
  • emerging low-energy transport technologies, including marine innovation, and
  • selected perspectives on energy efficiency, energy poverty, and the social dimensions of transition.

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Systems, Economics And Governance

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Effective climate action requires more than technological solutions. It depends on how economic systems are designed, how value is measured, and how decisions are made and coordinated across scales. This includes rethinking growth-centred economics, strengthening local and global governance, and aligning institutions with ecological limits and human wellbeing.

Climate Action Tai Tokerau’s resources in this area draw on regenerative and wellbeing-oriented economic frameworks, systems thinking, and place-based governance examples. They explore approaches such as Doughnut Economics, regenerative capitalism, landscape-scale value creation, and collaborative governance — alongside reflections on how local, national, and global systems can better support transition.

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Education and Inner Development

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Responding to the climate and ecological crisis also requires inner and cultural change — how people learn, relate, communicate, and make meaning together. Education and inner development support the capacities needed for long-term transformation, including self-awareness, empathy, collaboration, creativity, and ethical leadership.

Climate Action Tai Tokerau’s resources in this area bring together globally recognised frameworks and locally grounded practice, including the Inner Development Goals, systems-change approaches to learning and leadership, creative engagement with young people, and community-building initiatives. Together, they explore how personal growth, culture change, and collective learning underpin effective and enduring climate action.

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These resources are offered as a shared learning commons — supporting reflection, connection, and practical action toward a regenerative future in Te Tai Tokerau.