Course: Sustainable Development Goals: People, Place, and Environment

Goal 11 of the SDGs aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030. There is a long way to go toward inclusivity. Most attention …

Permaculture – created from the words ‘permanent’ and ‘agriculture’ is a creative design process based on whole-systems thinking informed by ethics and design principles. The contraction of terms is now …

As we have built our knowledge on SDGs and their local contexts, we realise that the goals are difficult (if not impossible) to separate and address singularly. Of course, addressing …

Food banks If you are unable to get a grant from Work and Income, you may be able to get an emergency supply of groceries (ie a food parcel) from …

Professor Lynda Johnston – Lead educator Professor Lynda Johnson is the Assistant Vice Chancellor Sustainability at the University of Waikato and has been a lecturer in human geography for over …

In the previous step 4.7 we considered the problems with increased intensity of the dairy industry on Aotearoa New Zealand’s waterways. Let’s have a look at what is being done …

Over the past decade, carbon offsetting has become increasingly popular, but it has also become – for a mixture of reasons – increasingly controversial. Traditionally, much of the criticism of …