A Sustainable Commute at a Discount – Connor Read, Workride
If you’ve wanted to get yourself a discounted bicycle or scooter under something like the UK’s Cycle to Work Scheme, here’s the good news: you can. Ōtautahi Christchurch-based WorkRide now offers a na...
12 Mars 202415min
How to change carbon behaviour, big time - Ben Gleisner, Cogo
The conscious consumer movement has an impact but it’s still small - a minority of people choose to change their behaviour. Imagine if you could make your carbon footprint your bank's problem. Imagine...
21 Feb 202433min
Copping flak: Rod Oram at COP28
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed last week with a notable first: an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. Not quite the phase out most countries had wanted, and re...
21 Dec 202331min
Scope 4 and the new reporting - Dr Jodi York, Climate VC Fund, Kilara Capital
Heard of Scope 4? Us neither. If you thought Scope 3 emissions are hard to count and reduce then Scope 4 lifts the ambition yet again. Scope 4 or so-called avoided emissions ask businesses to create p...
11 Dec 202318min
The Kiwi Company taking the pain out of Climate Disclosure - Dougal Watt, ClimateTracker
Climate-related disclosures are on their way. Auckland-based ClimateTracker has cloud-based software that eases the compliance overhead and makes sense of the data. Co-founder and data architecture he...
6 Dec 202320min
Watts up with car charging in NZ? Stephanie Smits O’Callaghan, Hikotron
Armed with its own IP, Hamilton-based car charging innovator Hikotron is rolling out a national network of charge points. Ross Inglis asked co-founder Stephanie Smits O’Callaghan how Hikotron tackles ...
27 Nov 202327min
Climate Leaders Coalition turns five – Jolie Hodson of Spark and Mike Burrell, SBC
The Climate Leaders Coalition turned five years old. Its signatories, which include some of NZ’s largest polluters, are a group of 88 companies that have committed to climate agenda and they’ve notche...
27 Nov 202323min
What’s behind the sunny spell in solar power? Matt Ward, solarZero
Every 35 minutes solarZero installs a new residential solar system. It plans to invest $1 billion in new solar and battery systems over the next decade and already has 12,000 installations. It made he...
16 Nov 202345min
