Christine Dann is a researcher, writer and gardener who has been active in the feminist and environmental movements in Aotearoa New Zealand, has written books on politics, gardening and food, and has a Ph.D. in environmental policy. For the past twenty years she has been co-working on creating a one hectare ‘habitat’ garden and forest on Te Pataka o Rakaihautu/Banks Peninsula.
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Engineering Infinite and Eternal Extinction – A review of More and More and More and More Everything Forever
Fressoz’s book deals primarily with the creation of myths about energy futures; Becker’s with the creation of myths about futures in space. They overlap in their consideration of why such myths are created. Who pays for them to be created; who benefits from their creation?
November 6, 2025
The Green No Deal – a review of ‘The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives’ and ‘The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet’
Is land – which to some cultures is the original mother, to be revered and cared for – just another commodity which can and should be exploited in the interests of human ‘progress’? Is energy another such commodity as well?
July 17, 2025
State Power, Corporate Power – or ‘Little Powers’? A century of energy exploitation in Aotearoa New Zealand
How long will this race run, who will win out, and what will the vast majority of New Zealanders pay in money, pollution, extreme weather events, sea level rise, land degradation and loss of fellow life forms to subsidize the continuing exploitation of Papatuanuku (Mother Earth)?
July 10, 2025
Fake Food vs Farm Fresh Food
No ifs, no buts, and please – more small farms producing real food for everyone, and no more IPES!
September 5, 2023
Living bioregionally, now
Already it is starting to make economic as well as social sense to produce more food and other essentials locally, and exchange them outside existing industrial consumption systems. In other words, to live bioregionally now!
October 7, 2022