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This Climate Business – Live!
From idea to action: to how make change happen: Join James Shaw, Sophie Handford, Vincent Heeringa (host) and more as they share their experience in leading the charge on climate. 'This Climate Business' will be broadcast in front of a live audience as a keynote event...
Greening the Commercial Property Sector: Scott McKenzie, PMG Funds
Commercial property is more polluting that you might imagine. Twenty percent of New Zealand’s carbon emissions come from the property sector. What will it take to reduce those emissions? Scott McKenzie, CEO of Tauranga-based property investment firm PMG Funds, has a...
Are we there yet? Andrew Caseley of EECA on sustainable energy
Andrew Caseley is the outgoing CEO of EECA, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. He arrived in 2017 to launch a refreshed strategy and resigns as that piece of work concludes. Back then Judith Collins was Minster of Energy, there were 6000 EVs on the road...
Mātauranga and climate change: Cornell Tukiri
Cornell Tukiri is the senior Māori advisor for Tataki Auckland United and also for Climate Connect Aotearoa – a climate action accelerator by Tataki Auckland Unlimited. Cornell recently launched He Kete...
Climate + Business: Antonia Burbidge & Rebecca Lowe
Next month is the biggest event on the corporate climate calendar, the Climate Change + Business Conference by Environmental Defence Society, the Sustainable Business Council and Climate Leaders Coalition. You could say it’s the CCBC by the EDS and SBC and the CLC. On...
Brianne West: from shampoo to fizzy drinks with no water (not much anyways)
In Aotearoa New Zealand, we throw away a staggering 97 million single-use plastic drinks containers each year, with less than 7% of those ever getting recycled. Seems dumb especially when most of that drink is water. Brianne West is the founder of Ethique, the...
Investing in the transition – Jason Patrick, NZ Green Investment Finance
Back in May, the government injected another $300m into NZ Green Investment Finance – or NZGIF – taking the green bank’s investment pool to $700m. Starting in 2019 the bank has committed about $300m in 16 transactions to-date. Given the scale of the transition, why is...
The trouble with food – Emily King, author of Re-food
Emily King is the author of Re-food, a challenge to reimagine and reconstruct the food system in Aotearoa. It’s a timely book, with farmers and growers hit by extreme weather, food prices at record highs and a predominance of highly processed food at the expense of...
Recycling Farm Plastics: Neal Shaw, Plasback
What happens to all that silage baling wrap you see when you’re whizzing around the countryside? Until recently, nearly all New Zealand farmers burned or buried it. That’s changing, largely due to a company called Plasback. Neal Shaw, Plasback’s Commercial Manager,...
The sustainability journey of a scaffolding company with roots in the petrochemical sector – Paul Cunningham, Cunningham Construction
Taranaki-based scaffolding and rigging company Cunningham Construction has deep roots in the petrochemical sector. It’s also on a journey towards sustainability. Managing Director Paul Cunningham talked to Ross Inglis through the why and the how of doing business...
Reporting on progress – Mike Murphy and Nick Morrison on Kōkako Coffee
It’s hard running a small business. It’s harder running a small business that takes its environmental and social responsibility serisously. And it’s suepr hard then auditing that effort and publishing it for all to see. Kōkako Coffee recently published its fourth...
Getting rid of cling film: Jon Reed, Compostic
You will know about cling film. Perhaps you wrapped your lunch in it this morning. Or you’ve seen swaths of it used to wrap suitcases at the airport. It’s ubiquitous and it’s pernicious. Jon Reed certainly thinks so and has created Compostic, a plant-based alternative...
Comvita – David Banfield
Comvita is a publicly listed mānuka honey specialist – the OG of mānuka money if you like. For a moment it was a sharemarket darling peaking in 2015 but since then languishing as it posted losses and a stockpile of product it couldn’t shift. Enter David Banfield in...
Carbon, trees and seaweed – Finn Ross, CarbonZ
Finn Ross is a young guy on a mission. He’s completing a PhD on seaweed carbon sequestration, he’s also co-founder of CarbonZ, a company offering voluntary carbon credits based on the restoration and planting of native trees on New Zealand farmland. He’s the son of...
The Big Business Alternative to Landfill: Joe Youssef – All Heart NZ
A framework for any corporate, anywhere, to divert anything from landfill. That’s the promise from Auckland-based social enterprise All Heart NZ. Ross Inglis asked the irrepressible Joe Youssef, the company’s founder and Chief Encourager, how it does it. Listen to the...
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The co-founder of magazines like Unlimited, Idealog and Good and former chair of the Science Media Centre, he now consults to ethical and clean-tech companies and is marketing director for a VC fund.
He kills pot-plants by mistake, refuses to eat fish by choice and rides an e-bike like a wide-eyed fool.
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