Kerry Sunderland

Living Legacies founder Lynda Hannah talks about our mortality and the health of our planet. Featured artists include Catherine Ingram, Jem Bendell, Dahr Jamail

The Baton Valley, at the top of the South Island, was named after a young runaway sailor, Batteyn Norton, and it remains a place where life is isolated, physical, self-sufficient, and largely dictated by the weather. It hasn’t been much of a…

As borders reopen, a growing number of people are questioning if their pre-pandemic travel habits are still sustainable. Kerry Sunderland speaks to three New Zealanders who’ve committed to avoid flying whenever possible. My Canberra-based uncle and…

Every morning, Ginny* heads outside and into her backyard for an hour, where she “hacks, turns soil, and weeds”. It has, she says, given her a reason to get up and start the day. Only two months ago, the 45-year-old mother of three was feeling quite…

Over the past few years, it’s become clear that hard scientific facts alone don’t change minds. In ‘’Only a Few Years From Now’’ Octavia Cade, Kirsten McDougall and Clare Moleta give us an insight into some horrifying possible futures that, if we…

Aotearoa has the cleanest rivers in the world in its many conservation estates, which equate to roughly a third of all land here – but downstream waterways are now some of the most polluted in the developed world.

Known for its conservative tendencies, is the city now undergoing a transformation? In this article for the January 2021 issue of North & South, Kerry Sunderland investigates.We’re walking down Trafalgar Street, the main drag in Nelson, when a…

When it comes to climate change, Nelson Arts Festival audiences have clearly indicated they believe intervention is needed now, with 'The Time to Act' Thinking Brunch at this year's Page & Blackmore Pukapuka Talks (the new name for their readers and…

Every morning, weather permitting; Harry Osborne hitches the ‘fun trailer’ onto a bright red Massey 135 tractor and waits promptly near the Tahuna Beach Holiday Park gates for his passengers. The trailer, which is decorated in colourful…

When friends and family drop into Tahuna Beach Holiday Park to visit Jocelyn Robertson, they know to drive directly to the guest entrance off Parkers Road and they’ll find her in the so-called ‘green zone’ somewhere between the willow trees and the…

Walter Nash was prime minister of New Zealand when Diane Harris’ family first embarked on the road trip from Ashburton to Nelson on Boxing Day in 1958. At the time, the road up the coast via Kaikoura was only gravel. Diane’s family made the journey…

A dark blue wave intersects with patches of blue and silver in the striking custom paint job that adorns the sides of Jude and Dave Coursey’s caravan, which they inherited back in 1997 from Jude’s father. The 25-foot home on wheels now serves as…

The most recent polls all suggest that the majority of the community does not support the carbon tax. But does this mean they no longer support action on climate change?