COP26 – What’s the buzz all about?
Below we shed some light on what we can hope to see at the end of November and why it's important.
Proposed changes to the directors’ duties – a (small) reason to celebrate.
On 23 September a Member’s Bill was drawn out of the member’s bill ballot, proposing to amend the director’s duties section of the Companies Act 1993. The proposed changes will clarify that a company director of a company may take into account other (often longer-term) environmental, social and governance considerations when acting “in the best interests of the company”.
Collaborative Submission to the Climate Change Commission
On the 31t of January this year (2021) the Climate Change Commission / He Pou a Rangi (CCC) released its draft advice to the New Zealand government on how to…
The World is Grey – In The Most Magical Way.
The world is not black and white. It is a beautiful mix of many shades of grey. It is magically complex. It is perhaps this challenge that underpins all of…
Working with Maggie Marilyn
On a Wednesday evening at the start of November Maggie Hewitt, designer and founder of Maggie Marilyn (MM), announced to those in attendance that after 4 years of business as…
What An Opportunity We Now Have.
What an opportunity we now have in our hands. I know that a lot of New Zealanders are going through some really hard and stressful times because of this…
Will COVID-19 Change Where You Spend Your Money?
Photo by Daria Sannikova from Pexels We are absolutely pillaging this planet. That's not fair on all of us because there are many who read this that do a whole lot…
Local Currencies
Wow! What a time we are living in. The impacts of COVID-19 on New Zealand and the world have been on a scale only seen in blockbuster movies.…
They’ve Got This Wrong – It’s Not Waste To Divert It’s Food For Our Soils.
With the recent announcement by Auckland Council that they will be using an Anaerobic Digestor (AD) to process the unwanted food collected kerbside from Auckland households for the next 20…
An explanation of our climate crisis.
I was inspired to give my attempt at explaining our planet's climate crisis to the best of my knowledge after my friend Kim text me asking “if you could recommend…