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 tha...
23 Aug 202343min
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 i...
24 Jul 202331min
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 hi...
17 Jul 202341min
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 c...
25 Jun 202320min
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 talk...
20 Jun 202320min
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 it’s environmental and social responsibility serisously. And it’s suepr hard then auditing that effort and publishin...
13 Jun 202332min
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 cert...
4 Jun 202330min
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 ...
28 Mai 202339min
