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Growing food in a hotter NZ – Jenny Cameron, Fit for a Better World
The primary sector has been in the gun lately for its reluctance to resolve its emissions profile. You’d almost think there’s some denial going on. Well, that might be true of some, but not all. In 2021 a broad industry effort went into a primary sector document...
Follow the climate money – Climate VC Fund
Rohan MacMahon and Jez Weston are co-founders of the Climate VC Fund – a fund that invest in emission reductions technologies in NZ and Australia. They were on the show to announce their ambitions but a year on, what’s happened? Did they raise the money require? Have...
The End of Smoke on the Water? Michael Eaglen, EV Maritime
Auckland’s ferries, which burn 13 million litres of diesel every year and produce 20 percent of the city’s public transport emissions, are about to clean up their act. Two electric ferries are being built right now for the Waitematā, with design and engineering in the...
Super clean, super green – Cleanery’s Mark and Ellie Sorenson
In 1993, school boy Mark Sorenson got 20/20 for an essay about the dangers of plastic packaging. 29 years later Mark and his business partner and wife, Ellie, have established Cleanery, a kiwi start up that’s attracted millions in venture capital and now has products...
Why, what and who of Auckland Climate Festival – Michelle Kennedy
Michelle Kennedy is the co-founder of the Auckland Climate Festival, a celebration of all things climate change, ranging from bike tours to investor meetings, beach clean-up, a transport tech conference, film screenings, and the O Tatou Ngahere native trees conference...
Going nuts for bananas: Simon Coley of All Good and Karma Drinks
Simon Coley is the co-founder of All Good Organics, the pioneering importer of ethical bananas, and also of Karma Drinks, famous for its Karma Cola. Karma just celebrated 10 years, a notable achievement for any brand, but especially noteworthy because 1% of total...
Climate and Business Conference: Mike Burrell, Sustainable Business Council
Next week sees the return of the Climate and Business conference, New Zealand’s most important get-together for government, business and community leaders about climate policy and action. This Climate Business is pleased to be invited to the conference and to talk...
Facing the food challenge: Peter Wren-Hilton, 2035 Oceania Summit
2035 Oceania Summit is ambitious event combining the food, agriculture, and tech sectors to address the impact of climate change on food. Held in Auckland 10-11 October, the summit will feature delegations from the US, Australia, and the Pacific Islands and includes a...
A Greener kind of Grass: The Lawnmowing Franchise Operator that went Electric
If Waikato-based lawnmowing franchise LawnRite has anything to do with it, petrol-powered garden equipment is on the way out. It has replaced its mowers, trimmers and even a concrete mixer with battery-powered versions, and it charges those batteries with solar panels...
Steve Bonnici: Urgent Courier Cargo Bikes
Auckland-based Urgent Couriers was the country’s first carbon-neutral transport company; if you were in Auckland in the 90’s you’ll likely remember its fleet of courier bicycles. The bikes were mostly displaced by electronic messaging, but now they’re back. Late last...
A new shoe for you? Why not. Jeremy Bank, YY Nation
Fast fashion is responsible for packaging, energy use, waste and consumerism at their worst. If there was ever an industry ready for a make over, it would be fashion. How about a very fashionable shoe made of wool, pineapple, bamboo, algae and sugarcane? That’s right...
Building a circular economy – Louise Nash, Circularity
What goes around comes around. The toxins we build into products come back to poison us sooner or later. It’s the circular economy at work. So imagine if we could design systems to remove those toxins in the first place, or at least capture them and return them to the...
Potatoes to the rescue! Hamish Dodd about his plastic alternative
We are drowning in plastics, in our soil, our oceans, our food chain, and recently discovered as nanoparticles in our gut. Mmmmm nanoplastics. The government banned single-use plastics in 2019, and is phasing out hard-to-recycle plastics such as meat and vegetable...
No, It won’t destroy your Business: Why Removing Parking is a Good Idea
Few public debates get heated more quickly than the one around replacing kerbside parking with transit lanes or bike paths. How do we make the conversation about parking less polarising and more productive? For the answers, Ross Inglis spoke to Doctor Tim Welch, a...
Behind The Plug: Electric Vehicle Smart Charging
Electric vehicles are on their way, but is New Zealand’s grid ready for them? Christchurch-based Evnex makes clever chargers that refuel your car and let your lines company dynamically manage the load on its network. Evnex CEO and...
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