Imagine my relief.

If you spend time around the Wellington CBD, chances are you’ve seen Alex Dyer. He and his big yellow cargo bike are a regular featureContinue reading

The 2020 hunger strikes and climate vigil went for 103 consecutive days, ending at Labour’s landslide election. Soon after, the crew of regulars found themselvesContinue reading

The day Paul Nieman arrived to provide hunger striker Sue Boyd had to step down for medicalreasons. He found himself taking her place and spentContinue reading

Robin Treadwell: Retired doctor, activist and mother, made the trip from Waiheke to take up the Hunger Strike role after David Goldsmith returned home. LorraineContinue reading

Siana Fitzjohn is fearless. In March, she scaled a 100m oil rig in Cook Strait, so you may have seen her in the news. SheContinue reading

We met Molly Melhuish on the lawn of parliament, supporting David Goldsmith during his hunger strike. She is the 81-year-old we might all aspire toContinue reading

Last month, David Goldsmith and Tim Musson came to Wellington from Christchurch and moved into Viard House, a part of the Catholic Cathedral in HillContinue reading

 Eduardo Salazar from Peru came to talk about the difference a road makes in his country. The documentary we talk about (Voices of the Road)Continue reading

This episode, I’m proud to introduce Emma Knight, a school striker and Fridays for Future supporter – we met on the lawn of parliament duringContinue reading

Take a course in another language and you will soon be introduced to simple one to one mappings – kia ora, haere rā, tēnā koutou,Continue reading

The bus was pulling out of Te Kuiti when I heard about the fire at the Sky City Convention Centre. The rooftop burned for fiveContinue reading

Tēna koe, nau hoki mai ki taku kōnae kōrero – te taunga o te oranga ngākau. https://www.facebook.com/lemonwoodeatery/ The arguments around livestock and plant based foodsContinue reading

The recent school strike saw 170,000 people in the streets of Aotearoa demanding action on climate change. A physics teacher in Whitianga makes the pointContinue reading

From the outside you probably imagine those caught up in climate action to be a somber lot. How could you face all of this gloomContinue reading

Spend long enough staring into this problem and we all come to the same thought: we’ve been looking at everything the wrong way. Things weContinue reading

One day a man gets up from his desk and goes to a hardware store. He buys paint, some sticks of wood and makes himselfContinue reading

So what happens when things fall apart? One group wondering this is Transition Towns. Quoting one group from Southend on Sea: “by shifting our mind-setContinue reading

Dr Sea just released this video too – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FkH7qO3y9w&list=PLoZ9-YO7tGnpdohVBvbskUg-3hYCcdSF_&index=1 At 19 years of age an Austrian left home to start her life underwater. Her nameContinue reading

The talk with Greenpeace is well overdue. Amanda Larsson and I kept this talk a little shorter, it being skype and all, and we crackedContinue reading

Catarina Gutierrez arrived on our shores brimming with ideas. Her world has better urban transport; fairer, more inclusive communities; and much more fun. After delvingContinue reading

Tom Bennion is an environmental lawyer. Like Shaun Hendy in the previous episode he sees reductions in air travel as vital to reducing emissions. IContinue reading

Shaun Hendy is a theoretical physicist from Auckland university. He is also a science communicator and he wrote a book, ‘Silencing Science’, which discusses theContinue reading

  (Note: scroll to the bottom for the podcast episode. You can get to the ‘Imagine My Relief’ podcast with Spotify or using iTunes search)Continue reading

There is a saying in Taranaki. If you can’t see the mountain, its probably raining. If you can, its going to rain. Dairy country. MilkingContinue reading

Abbie Jury and Fiona Clark live in the Tikorangi, Taranaki. Their story will probably surprise you. The arguments that a reduction of extraction here willContinue reading

Motu is a charitable trust, founded in 2000 with the aim of to promoting well informed and reasoned debate on public policy issues relevant toContinue reading

  I’ve known Nicky Hager for a few years now and we’ve rarely talked shop. I tend to gush a little over my guests onContinue reading

Lyndon Devantier and Catherine Cheung are ocean scientists and activists living on the side of Mount Taranaki, just down the road from Parihaka. They cameContinue reading

James Barber is a member of Oil Free Wellington, an activist group trying to prevent oil exploration in New Zealand. Naomi Klein has pointed outContinue reading

Aaron Packard of 350 Aotearoa joined me for this episode. He is part of the global 350.org movement dedicated to climate action. We talked aboutContinue reading

This was to be an article in the SpinOff – we’ve since decide to create something shorter for them – probably next week. In theContinue reading

Tim Jones of CANA joined us for a chat about the state of coal in NZ. There’s more than you think and there are moreContinue reading

The ground has been changing around us so quickly in the last few weeks that its been impossible to keep up. As Tim Moreton pointedContinue reading

Teall Crossen worked on climate justice issues in New York for the Pacific. She returned home to be part of changing the government with theContinue reading

Sigurd Magnusson is a software developer turned EV advocate in Wellington, New Zealand. He and I talked about our hopes for the growth of ElectricContinue reading

Goodness we talk about climate change a lot. And yet we rarely spend time with a specialist. That’s a bit silly. So this week IContinue reading

Finally – the talk with Sarah Thomson in Auckland. We talk about floods and denial and curious fact the NZ does not have a constitution.Continue reading