Right to Repair Bill
If Aotearoa is going to have an economy that competes with the rest of the developed world, we have to make transformational change. For some, that sentence might evoke feelings…
Sustainability Strategy with Tessa Bradley from Kowtow
https://youtu.be/X8SlrI1ddnE In the second webinar of our series we outlined why it is important for businesses to have a sustainability strategy and the steps to take in developing one, as…
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Is the BioDown Jacket by Kathmandu a Positive Step Towards a Sustainable Fashion Industry or Greenwashing?
The initial shock factor Considering we work with dozens of fashion brands to navigate the transition to become a circular, regenerative, (and inclusive) business, we thought it was important that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…