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 to make their own environmental impacts as small as possible and their social impacts as big as possible, but...
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. Never in my life did I imagine we would see countries shutting their borders and telling their people...
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 years, I think it is crucially important for the future of this city (and the...
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 one article to educate myself on the climate crisis, what would that article be? I’m...
Compostable Packaging Is Part Of Our Sustainable Future
I am frustrated with the recent media coverage around the topic of compostable packaging because the compostable plastics aren’t being differentiated from the other compostable packaging materials. A matter of semantics you may say, but it’s really important. It is the compostable plastics that are causing...
Sustainability 101 – Create the Culture.
Does your business wish to “be more sustainable”? To reduce your environmental impact, to improve your social impact or be more transparent? Well, I know it's an overused quote, but it is so true. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi All too...
We gotta change the economy.
The world is in deep shit and it’s because of the economy we made up. The time for sticking your head in the sand and ignoring all the scientists (who are literally screaming their voice boxes out as they try desperately to inform humanity of...
Dear Gareth
Dear Gareth I hope this finds you well. I just read your opinion piece in Stuff titled ‘Have we been blinded by the success of the plastic bag ban?’ and I felt compelled to reply. Firstly I must be transparent and let you know I am the sustainability...