Policy Quarterly, 31 May 2023
The Mana Kai Framework: a degrowth lens
The Mana Kai Framework is a set of values, goals and objectives to improve the food provisioning system in Aotearoa New Zealand, developed through a round of nationwide consultations, with the ultimate purpose of informing a national food strategy. This article builds upon Mana Kai, finding that the consultation process assumed only a growth economy in future; a second round of consultation using a degrowth lens, it is argued, would produce a valuable alternative framework. This could prove fruitful towards the stated Mana Kai aspiration to ignite a social movement to drive significant systemic change, and could, alongside the existing framework, inform a national food strategy that is ready for growth and degrowth futures, both of which are plausible, thereby ensuring a more resilient food system in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Illuminem, 23 November 2022
Larry Elliott’s Version of Degrowth Is Something Else
A rebuttal of Larry Elliott’s (Economics Editor at The Guardian) article of 17 November 2022 in which he misrepresents degrowth and paints a dim picture of its potential.
Kiwi Diary, 8 August 2022
Imagining the 21st Century Economy
Earth is in overshoot because of economic growth, yet all financial, business and political systems are focused on growth. Imagine an alternative.
New Zealand Geographic, July-August 2016
Eden in Auckland
One of the rarest ecologies in the world is hiding in plain sight, in the centre of the most central suburb of the largest city in New Zealand. Of more than 5000 hectares of rock forest that once shrouded the lava boulderfields of the Auckland isthmus, only tiny remnants survive, totalling just 29 hectares. Welcome to the secret world of the city’s last rock forest.
Heliocene 