Senior Consultant Andrew Horwood argues the case for correct spelling of Māori place names to protect Aotearoa’s history, knowledge, and identity.
There’s no shortage of reasons for spelling Māori place names correctly. For a start, it shows appropriate respect for te reo and its speakers as Aotearoa’s indigenous population. It…
Authored by Kevin Jenkins, originally published by the NZ Herald on 7 November 2021
Don’t you love a good mailbox held aloft by a welded chain? …
Data scientist Bryan Field looks at who’s supposed to be responsible for the emissions caused by international shipping and aviation and what’s being done to reduce them
International bunker fuels — it doesn’t sound like an interesting topic for a blog but trust me on this one, it’s more interesting…
Data scientist Bryan Field estimates the impact of New Zealand’s 2020 lockdown on our greenhouse gas emissions and considers what we can learn from this as we work to meet our national emissions targets
At 11:59 pm on Tuesday 17 August 2021 the whole of Aotearoa was placed in an…
To mark Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Director Richard Tait explores the importance of undertaking a journey in te ao Māori within the workplace.
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori is a good opportunity for us all to think about the significance of te reo and te ao Māori…
Authored by Kevin Jenkins, MartinJenkins Founder
This article was originally published in the NZ Herald 25 July 2021
Before going into battle, the Romans would knock an animal or two on the head and rummage around their entrails looking for signs of who would win. …
Authored by Kevin Jenkins, MartinJenkins Founder
This article was originally published in the NZ Herald 27 June
Why would commentator Lyman Stone proclaim that we “now face the looming demographic calamity of global population collapse”?
The narrative about talent and population in New Zealand just keeps changing. Over recent decades…
EeMun Chen, a Principal Consultant at MartinJenkins, argues that we don’t yet know nearly enough about how cultural context shapes people’s environmental attitudes and behaviour — and therefore about how behaviour can be influenced to tackle the global waste explosion.
An image has stuck in my head from one day…
Authored by Kevin Jenkins, originally published by the NZ Herald on 7 March 2021
Disciple Pati is a stunningly creative young Samoan New Zealander. Her song The Boy Who Cried Woman won best music video at the 2020 Pacific Music Awards and late last year she released an equally impressive…
Consultant Amy Thomson discusses the challenges faced by communities, industry and government in Aotearoa in trying to recycle more, and the innovative solutions helping us overcome some of those challenges.
I recently watched a video of divers off Lembeh, Indonesia coaxing a baby octopus into moving houses. It had made…
