Plastics – A Global Health Problem Plastic pollution is a global problem and a part of our physically interconnected world. Even on the most remote isles you can’t get away from it. In fact, these are the places where ocean currents transport plastic debris and collect it on beaches in […]
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I rere mai te Awa Nui Mai i te Kāhui Maunga ki Tangaroa Ko au te Awa, ko te Awa ko au. The Great River flows From the Mountains to the Sea I am the River, and the River is me. -Whanganui iwi, Tångata Whenua, or traditional guardians of the Whanganui River Catchment […]
In many Southeast Asian countries the ‘Water Festival’ represents an outdoor celebration where people splash one another with water as part of a cleansing ritual to welcome the New Year. Sprinkling water is a sign of respect, blessings and good tidings, and it often also becomes a pretense for celebration! […]
Tāhuahua Grain by golden grain Rolling aeolian rhythms Erode and accrete Collectively dynamic and responsive Undulating between swale and slack The incipient head cresting The rear weighty and established, Assembling a home for stinging wasps Kororā and Katipo spiders, Interlacing silk between the flax Serpentine crescents Criss-cross and cascade, […]
A North Island Fairy Tale (Respectfully inspired by, but not based on, Māori folklore of Aotearoa and by Te Reo Māori, with select words in Te Reo) Rā, the beaming sun, had a lover Queen of the clouds and of Ua, the rain Precious Wai that was needed to water the […]
Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Windy Wellington I miss the sad wind blowing, With cool indifference as it whips Pasted concert fliers off the weather beaten walls Of a seaside fish and chips. I miss the local people, Who like the seaside flaxes Are sharp and quiver with determination, Their resounding […]