Unwrapping Our Latest Energy Package - Professor Barry Barton
What does October's energy policy announcement mean for the future of NZ's electricity market and the climate? Law professor Barry Barton steps Ross Inglis through a package big on fossil fuels and ve...
11 Dec 202528min
Big Storage Batteries Are Here. Can They Fix Our Electricity Market? – Dr Jen Purdie
Earlier this year New Zealand's first and largest big storage battery began selling into the grid; there are signs that it is already softening prices. So, are we on the cusp of a low-emissions electr...
18 Nov 202520min
Sneaky sustainability - Orba Shoes
Every year the fashion industry produces over 24 billion shoes made largely of synthetics, with little regard for the materials sourced, the wellbeing of the people involved or impact after disposal. ...
13 Nov 202531min
The Low-Waste House – Paul Webster-Young, Twin Solutions
Auckland builder Paul Webster-Young is turning a new home for his sister into a case study for construction that sends less waste to landfill and costs less over time. The key, he tells Ross Inglis, i...
9 Nov 202521min
Your next house doesn't have to be a climate criminal – Mike Hartley, Lloyd Hartley
New Zealand's houses have come a long way since the '70s but there's plenty we can do to make them more sustainable. Auckland architect Mike Hartley is designing for less building waste and that, he t...
28 Okt 202524min
Small, circular, resilient economics - Ken Webster, NextFest keynote speaker
Ken Webster is one of the world’s leading thinkers in the circular economy. For eight years, he led innovation at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the world’s leading circular economy network. Visiting...
23 Okt 202532min
Fat Cats Versus a Kinder, Gentler Kind of Business – Andrew Davies, B Lab
A chubby feline is the star of an awareness campaign for the B Corp certification that says your business is getting real about sustainability. B Lab's Australia and NZ CEO Andrew Davies tells Ross In...
13 Okt 202521min
Think Like a Forest - Simon Millar, Pure Advantage
Think Like a Forest is a beautiful short film about NZ’s ngahere or native forest and is now showing on TVNZ On Demand, PureAdvantage.org and soon Air NZ In Flight Entertainment. Produced by Pure Adva...
23 Sep 202530min
