26 September 2025

Pursuing place, not things #

Thank you to the Exchange Cafe and Rāngai for collecting candidate thoughts on climate change during the recent local elections.

I do bang on about place, not things, and that might sound disconcerting for local retailers... but I love local retail.

This latest, beautiful example is what I believe the future of retail+value-added service looks like in a provincial resilient, sustainable, resourceful future place:

We can be the little resilient beacon of hope on the Coast.