A second life for our throw-away clothing: Jeff Vollebregt, Upparel
New Zealanders on average throw out textiles equivalent to 200 t-shirts every year. Finding a new home for all those garments is the mission of Australasian textiles recycler Upparel. Jeff Vollebregt,...
5 Apr 202322min
Harbour bridges! Potholes! Light Rail! – with Paul Winton
The transport sector has experienced its share of drama this year, starting with Cyclone Gabrielle wiping out so many roads and bridges across the north island.The cyclone was blamed for a sudden chan...
3 Apr 202320min
What the heck just happened to the carbon market? Dr Christina Hood
Last week the quarterly auction for carbon credits hit a remarkable snag: it failed to meet the clearing price. This means none of the 4.5 million carbon permits on offer were sold. The failed auction...
26 Mar 202337min
A decade of B-Corp. Now what? Qiulae Wong, NZ manager of B Lab
It's 10 years since the first companies were certified as B-Corp in New Zealand and since then the movement of ethical and environmentally responsible businesses has grown to over 500 in NZ and Austra...
17 Mar 202321min
How food growers can think about climate change: Brent Clothier
If the rain that deluged the North Island is the ‘new normal’, how are hard-hit growersmeant to think about the future – and growing anything in the ‘normal’ way?Vincent Heeringa spoke to Brent Clothi...
2 Mar 202315min
Making sense of Auckland’s floods – Kevin Trenberth, Climate Scientist
How can we make sense of the Biblical deluge that soaked Auckland, Northland, and the Coromandel in late January – and by the time this is being recorded is about to happen again. If only there was an...
20 Feb 202333min
A Constructive Use for Building Waste – With Nigel Benton and Terri-Ann Berry
Building a new house in New Zealand produces on average two skips of construction debris. If a demolition is involved, added another 13 skips. As a nation, we’re really bad at diverting all that waste...
14 Feb 202320min
What’s in store for 2023? Investment with Rohan MacMahon
Part Three: Rohan MacMahon on investment and technology Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the electio...
6 Feb 202316min
