The Outrageous Waste of Food: Deborah Manning, Kiwi Harvest
Every year New Zealand food industry sends 103,000 tonnes of food waste to landfill. Some 60% of that food going to landfill is edible. Burying food (often in its plastic and foil packaging) is an env...
9 Nov 202038min
How to Stop Owning a Stupid Metal Box: Erik Zyderfelt, Mevo
Are you sick of owning an expensive, polluting metal box called a car? Me too. Mine sits in the garage taking up real estate and costing me bomb in maintenance and registeration. Is car sharing a bett...
2 Nov 202040min
Labour’s Big Mandate: here’s how they should use it. Gary Taylor, Environmental Defence Society
Few names have been associated longer with conservation and environmental protest than Gary Taylor. The executive director of the Environmental Defence Society has taken on mining companies, property ...
26 Okt 202038min
Is Sheep and Beef Farming already Carbon Neutral? Possibly, Dr Brad Case, AUT
Here’s a surprise for you. It’s possible that sheep and beef farms could already be net carbon neutral in NZ. According to a new report, sheep and beef farms hold 17% of NZ’s forests - or more technic...
19 Okt 202046min
Farming sustainably, at scale. Can it be done? Forbes Elworthy, co-founder of Craigmore Sustainables
Craigmore Sustainables is the only New Zealand land manager that operates at scale in each of New Zealand’s three core primary sectors: horticulture, dairy farming and forestry. It also claims to be a...
12 Okt 202033min
Creating a 1000m water spout for renewable electricity? Yes, says tech investor Brent Ogilvie
Could a water spout almost a kilometre high be harnessed to create electricity from waste industrial heat? Yes, says tech investor Brent Ogilvie. Brent is a rare type: a venture investor with a passio...
5 Okt 202043min
Auckland’s Bold Climate Plan: Can it halve Emissions in just 9 Years?
The Auckland Climate Action Plan sets out a bold agenda to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The changes required are profound. If you think fixing the harbour bridge is messy, wait till you try...
28 Sep 202042min
Lakes, tomatoes and seaweed: what are the 70 best Kiwi climate tech ideas?
Jez Weston and Rohan MacMahon are technologists scouring New Zealand to find the best and brightest projects to address climate change. Or more specifically, to find technologies that offer the greate...
21 Sep 202037min
