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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...
Carbon farming on Māori land – Blair Jamieson, Tāmata Hauhā
So much farmland – a million hectares according to one estimate – is mostly unfarmable because its erosion-prone, too steep, or inaccessible. In decades past that land might be destinated for forestry or just abandoned to return to scrub. Either way, the return on...
How to sell climate change: Jo Bye, EECA
Most of the population accepts that climate change is real. Most want to do something about it. But what shall we ask them to do? And what’s the best way to elicit a response? Recently the EECA, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, released an updated...
A circular economy turnaround story – Comvita
Comvita is much loved for its honey products - who doesn’t love bees and their fluffy bums. But a renewed focus on sustainability has seen the company present a robust strategic plan based on circular economy thinking. The plan, called Harmony, is a comprehensive...
What will farmers commit to on GHGs? Kelly Forster, He Waka Eke Noa
This month farmers are discussing their approach to managing GHG emissions - as the road show for He Waka Eke Noa comes to an end. He Waka Eke Noa is a joint industry-government-Māori initiative that’s investigating an alternative emissions...
Making a Big Beast Change in Direction Quickly: Moving New Zealand’s Transport and Heating Systems to Net-Zero – With Dr. Richard Meade
New Zealand’s transport system relies on fossil fuels. The technologies that heat our homes and businesses aren’t much better. What will it take to transition them towards zero-carbon alternatives? Dr. Richard Meade from Cognitus Economic Insight has tackled the...
A plant-based future for NZ – Jade Gray, Off-Piste Provisions
The job of transitioning primary sector from cows to plants will be a long but necessary journey. So if you were looking for someone to show the way, you’d do worse than Jade Grey. He’s managed a farm and a supermarket butchery, ran a meat processing plant in China,...
What does a fair transport system look like?
Every year, New Zealanders drive 35 billion kilometres by car – the equivalent of Earth to Mars and back 325 times. Māori and Pasifika miss out far more than other groups on visiting GPs because of lack of transport. Transport accounts for 43% of New Zealand's carbon...
Bees to Bioplastic – Veronica Harwood Stevenson, Humble Bee Bio
There’s a thing called the SIN List. Standing for Substitute It Now, the list identifies the chemicals in our textiles, furniture, food, and daily life that are slowly poisoning us, killing our bodies and environment. Replacing that list with nature-based alternatives...
Tackling Building Waste – Dr Teri-Ann Berry
Each year, the construction and demolition industry creates 1.7 million tonnes of waste – making up 60% of total landfills. So much of that waste is recoverable, recyclable, and unnecessary. No one cares more about solving that problem than Dr. Terri-Ann Berry,...
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