Ideas

Should you take your healthy wine with a dose of healthy scepticism?

Often hailed as our future and salvation in terms of the ability to mobilise, electric vehicles are becoming more of a reality but what is an accurate expectation and timeframe. Chris and Jeremy look at cars, bikes and trains to find out what's in the ...

The idea of a truly democaratic education lives on.

This week Ideas takes a look at a popular, bottom-up approach to combatting climate change in the UK; it's called the 10:10 Campaign. A 10% reduction in carbon footprint by 2010 is the target for over 1,500 businesses and 40,000 individuals which ...

This week Ideas looks at Americans who have chosen to call New Zealand home. A poet, a blueberry farmer and the founder of a community newspaper tell us about their experiences both here and in America.

Roger Kerr: the people and thinkers who influenced his ideas.

Chris and Jeremy Rose take a look at EnviroSchools and the growing awareness among students of our collective responsibility to the environment. This is tempered by the downturn in funding for such programmes during these fiscally lean times.

This week in the final part of our three part series on Tonga we take a look at the island nation's economic future.

Tonga's land tenure system is unique in the Pacific and now it is under review

Part one of a three part series on Tonga.

This week we hear from Moana Jackson and about the people, writers and philosophies that have influenced him.

We take a comprehensive look at Indonesia's Melanesian territoy of Papua on the 40th anniversary of its annexation.

Around 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. Our guests discuss what's being done to fight the problem

Co-author of 'Legacy of Secrecy' Lamar Waldron, talks about the Kenndy family and his claim that the Mafia was responsible for JFK's assassination.

Ideas this week takes a look at the concept of cycle friendly cities.

Today on Ideas we take a look at unemployed worker movements now and in the past.

This week we look at the 60th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions.

This week Chris talks to Canadian journalist and author Dan Gardner.

Almost exactly two years ago Britain's Guardian newspaper ran a thousand-word article, prominently, on a decision by the New Zealand Government to stop charging the public for access to statistics.