Recently we called 'it's a wrap!' on a nearly year-long project that engaged young people with environmental science by helping them tell stories on their own terms using film. I collaborated with the amazing team at Gecko Trust to secure a MBIE Curious Minds grant and...

I feel like my culture is obsessed with the future. January is especially thick with planning fever. My news feed and inbox overflow with advice on how to make better goals and resolutions for 2017, and then cut a track toward them.

Having caught the fever, I pinned up...

Right now fault and earthquake specialists from New Zealand and abroad are rising to the occasion. These scientists have dropped whatever they were doing to focus on learning from a catastrophic event and formulating an estimate of what may happen next.

Nearly two weeks...

On Thursday last week I came out as an impostor during a lunchtime workshop I ran for WING.

"There’s a well-guarded secret plaguing many professionals and academics. It explains why bright people see themselves as imposters, frauds, or not worthy of their place in a roo...

I’m home. 

My feet are firmly planted on the ground after two months and 5000 miles in the American West. But before launching into life again on Monday, I’ve been reflecting on the power of time off. 

Stefan Sagmeister, a New York-based designer, gave a TED Talk about t...

People love the idea of sustainability. But when we’re squeezed by the pressures of running a small business, it’s easy to let our focus on sustainability drift. So I’ve challenged myself to tackle it during my first few months in business, and will share my experience...

For the last six years I’ve been living in Rotorua, New Zealand—a city built right on top of a geothermal system.

People in Rotorua are pretty casual about it.

I guess it doesn’t matter how unusual something is, if you see it every day it starts to seem pretty normal. It...