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Green, keen and clean: EcoStore’s Tony Morpeth
EcoStore’s Tony Morpeth has been making environmentally friendly household cleaners for more than 20 years. Back then he was a pioneer, working for Stephen Tindall and then Malcolm Rands. Now his products are in pretty much every supermarket, from here to New York. So...
The Sanctuary Mahi Whenua Community Garden: Trevor Crosby
In the heart of Mt Albert, Auckland, is one of the oldest gardens in NZ. The Sanctuary Mahi Whenua Community Garden was first planted by Maori in pre-European times and hasn’t been built on since. The vege gardens and food forest have been lovingly cared for over the...
NZ food done like it should be: The Chia Sisters
The Chia Sisters is the kind of food company we dream of in New Zealand. Lovingly created by a family business and bottled in a solar-powered factory, this healthy energy drink is delicious, premium, and wholly sourced from local ingredients. The company is certified...
#Liberatethelane! The Auckland Harbour Bridge Protest with David & Mary-Margaret Slack
Last Sunday a remarkable thing happened. Along with 2000 of my best friends I rode over the Auckland harbour bridge on my bicycle. I was surpirsed how gentle the gradient was and how pitted the tar-seal surface is. The views are some of the best in Auckland. The...
Transport policy just went off the rails: WTF? Paul Winton, 1point5
Transport represents almost half of CO2 emisisons in NZ. In Auckland, its higher, at 67%. After agriculture with our burbing cows, transport is the most imporant sector to decarbonise. Yet the just published 10-year plan for Auckland predicts a 6% increase in...
Will Carbon Farming get us to Net Zero? Dr Sean Weaver, Ekos
Dr Sean Weaver, CEO and founder of Ekos, is a pioneer in using carbon credits to fund indigenous forests, at scale. Which is handy, because we need them. The Climate Change Commission says we need fewer cows and many thousands of hectares of trees, exotic and native....
Do happy cows burp funny gas? Glen Herud, Happy Cow Milk Company
This week Vincent talks to the indefatigable Glen Herud, dairy pioneer and founder of the Happy Cow Milk Company – where cows keep their young, the calves are not sent to slaughter and the milking shed is mobile, that is, it goes to cows rather than cows coming to the...
Making waste pay: Toby Skilton of Mutu and Oliver Hunt of MedSalv
Where there’s muck there’s brass. In this episode, Vincent talks to two entrepreneurs using technology to address waste problems at source. Oliver Hunt is founder of Medsalv, which cleans and refurbishes single-use devices. And Toby Skilton is founder of Mutu, an...
The advantage of native forests: Sir Stephen Tindall, Dame Anne Salmond and more!
This week Vincent attended the launch of O Tātou Ngāhere, a joint venture between Tāne’s Tree Trust and business lobby group Pure Advantage. They’re calling for a major shift in thinking about native forests, arguing that it’s not...
The future of transport is small – Micromobility co-founder Oliver Bruce
Climate change sucks, but there are some upsides. Electric skateboards being one. E-scooters being the other. In fact the whole micromobility revolution is so much fun. And no one is having more fun than Oliver Bruce, the ex-Uber exec who has returned to NZ to become...
Is He Happy Now? James Shaw on the Climate Change Commission and COP26
As the co-leader of the NZ Greens and the minister for Climate Change, James Shaw has defied his critics to get climate change on the government agenda with the overhaul of the Emissions Trading Scheme, cross-party support for the Zero Carbon Act, and the creation of...
Is the Climate Change Commission ambitious enough?
The NZ Climate Change Commission released its landmark report late January. The 650-page discussion document sets an agenda for how New Zealand could achieve GHG emissions reductions to align with our international obligations, such as the Paris Agreement, and achieve...
What is Project Drawdown? With Rohan MacMahon
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Rohan MacMahon about Project Drawdown; the most comprehensive...
What is climate justice? With Jo Spratt, director with Oxfam NZ
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Jo Spratt of Oxfam NZ to explain climate justice. Not everyone...
Who cares about methane? With Eloise Gibson, Stuff.co.nz
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Eloise Gibson, climate change editor of Stuff, to explain the...
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