This Climate Business

08/11/2023

It was great to hear from Richard Hills of Auckland Council and Parin Rafiei of Tātaki Auckland Unlimited about the continued commitment to Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri Auckland's Climate Plan. They need your vocal support in the face of growing opposition to climate action in this city. Have a listen and gird your loins. The fight is coming.
https://www.podcasts.nz/will-aucklands-climate-plan-survive-a-change-of-government-richard-hills-parin-rafei-thompson/

23/08/2023

We loved talking to the incredibly energetic Brianne West of Ethique about her new business Incrediballs - and saving water, plastic and emissions in the process.
Vincent Heeringa: "What gives you the confidence it will succeed?"
Brianne West: "What makes you think I'm confident?"
Lol, something about you makes us think you'll be fine!

Check out the show:

In Aotearoa New Zealand, we throw away a staggering ​97 million single-use plastic drinks containers each year, with less than 7% of those ever getting recycled. Seems dumb especially when most of that drink is water. Brianne West is the founder of Ethique, the eco-beauty products business that to...

21/02/2022

We enjoyed talking to Jade Gray from Offpiste Provisions

https://www.podcasts.nz/a-plant-based-future-for-nz-jade-gray-off-piste-provisions/

The job of transitioning primary sector from cows to plants will be a long but necessary journey. So if you were looking for someone to show the way, you’d do worse than Jade Grey. He’s managed a farm and a supermarket butchery, ran a meat processing plant in China, and launched a chain of pizza...

08/12/2021

Did you know that 60% of landfill is from construction. While we complain Teri Ann Berry from Unitec Institute of Technology is actually doing something about it. Great interview! https://www.podcasts.nz/tackling-building-waste-dr-teri-ann-berry/

Each year, the construction and demolition industry creates 1.7 million tonnes of waste – making up 60% of total landfills. So much of that waste is recoverable, recyclable, and unnecessary. No one cares more about solving that problem than Dr. Terri-Ann Berry, Associate Professor at Auckland’s ...

08/11/2021

https://www.podcasts.nz/live-from-cop26-olivia-wannan-stuff/

                Olivia Wannan is one of a handful of New Zealand journalists to attend COP26 in Glasgow, rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful to watch as the world’s climate policy is argued and hopefully agreed to. Oliva is a climate reporter for Stuff.co.nz and she joined Vincent...

03/11/2021

Lots and lots and lots of e-bikes - and one man who saw the future. Listen to Mike Tritt of Electrify explain what happens next in the e-transport future

https://www.podcasts.nz/e-biking-on-a-roll-mike-tritt-electrify-nz/

If you think you’re seeing more e-bikes on the roads, you’re not wrong. In New Zealand, their sales are soaring. But it wasn’t always this way; the e-bike revolution started with motivated people and, in this country, one of the early movers was Mike Tritt, a former Greenpeace staffer who foun...

29/09/2021

The story of oat milk in NZ is interesting: perfect growing conditions, but no processing infrastructure. Until now. Thanks to old fashioned grit Morgan Maw figured out how to adapt apple processing in Hawkes Bay to make oat milk mash right here in NZ. The Boring® Oat Milk company was born. Listen to Vincent Heeringa talk to Morgan about the journey to a sustainable milk alternative.

https://www.podcasts.nz/the-love-oat-morgan-maw-boring-oat-milk/

New Zealand grows great oats and makes excellent oat milk, in Sweden. Yes NZ oats are shipped to Sweden where they are processed and returned to our shores to be bottled and sold as NZ-made. That hardly seems the sustainable alternative we all hope for. The madness of that scenario is finally being....

21/09/2021

The election of the Entrust Board is next month. We spoke to new party More For You, Better for Climate about their ambitions for electrifying Auckland

https://www.podcasts.nz/vote-climate-the-team-aiming-for-the-vector-board-via-entrust/

Coming up: an election you probably won’t vote in for an entity you’ve probably not heard of. That’s right, it’s the tri-annual vote for the Entrust board, the majority shareholder of Vector Energy, Auckland’s electrical lines company. But wait, before you turn over and go to sleep, this t...

25/08/2021

https://www.podcasts.nz/live-at-spark-innovation-studio-annabell-chartres-and-vincent-heeringa/

This week Vincent spoke alongside PWC’s Annabell Chartres at Spark Innovation Studio about Sustainability in Tech, one in a series put on by the Spark IoT team. Hosted by Randall Miekle, agile coach at Spark the session started with the key question: what does sustainability mean to you? Listen or...

25/08/2021

https://www.podcasts.nz/the-new-era-of-farming-with-melissa-clark-reynolds-2/

Due to lockdown shenanigans it’s been hard to put a show together this week. So we’re dipping into our archive from the last six months. I hope you the enjoy the interviews – and stay safe. What future does sheep and beef farming have in a climate changed world? Serial entrepreneur and relentl...

11/06/2021

Wonderful to chat to the Chia Sisters, Chloe and Florence, about their vision for a better kind of food production system. Thanks for the kōrero! https://www.podcasts.nz/nz-food-done-like-it-should-be-the-chia-sisters/

The Chia Sisters is the kind of food company we dream of in New Zealand. Lovingly created by a family business and bottled in a solar-powered factory, this healthy energy drink is delicious, premium, and wholly sourced from local ingredients. The company is certified carbon positive, pays its worker...

03/06/2021

It's time to Liberate the Lane! This week I spoke to cycle advocates and organisers of the rally in Pt Erin Park - David Slack and Mary-Margaret Slack (of Bike Auckland) . How did 2000 cyclists end up riding over the bridge (it was never part of the plan) and what's been the reaction from those who have decision-making power? What's going to happen next! https://www.podcasts.nz/liberatethelane-the-auckland-harbour-bridge-protest/

Last Sunday a remarkable thing happened. Along with 2000 of my best friends I rode over the Auckland harbour bridge on my bicycle. I was surpirsed how gentle the gradient was and how pitted the tar-seal surface is. The views are some of the best in Auckland. The really surprising thing though is tha...

10/05/2021

Glen Herud from the Happy Cow Milk Company is changing the way the dairy industry works. If he succeeds, he'll have started a revolution. If he doesn't, well, the revolution is coming anyway. But boy is he trying hard! Check out his amazing story in the latest podcast.

https://www.podcasts.nz/do-happy-cows-burp-funny-gas-glen-herud-happy-cow-milk-company/

This week Vincent talks to the indefatigable Glen Herud, dairy pioneer and founder of the Happy Cow Milk Company – where cows keep their young, the calves are not sent to slaughter and the milking shed is mobile, that is, it goes to cows rather than cows coming to the shed. Hard at it since 2006, ...

01/12/2020

The Better Packaging Co does just what you think it should: makes plastic packaging that’s compostable in your own backyard. Starting with replacing those awful one-use plastic courier bags, the company now offers alternatives to plastic gloves, gift wrap, sticky labels and bags of all sorts and is exporting its plant-based products in Australia, Europe, China and the USA. But what does compostable mean? Is it the same as biodegradable? What happens when you don’t have a compost bin? And does plant-based plastic just replace one set of problems with another? Vincent is joined by co-founder Kate Bezar. The company recently was named a finalist in the Sustainable Business Awards.

https://www.podcasts.nz/replace-the-plastic-bag-with-a-better-bag-kate-bezar-the-better-packaging-company/

The Better Packaging Company does just what you think it should: makes plastic packaging that’s compostable in your own backyard. Starting with replacing those awful one-use plastic courier bags, the company now offers alternatives to plastic gloves, gift wrap, sticky labels and bags of all sorts ...

28/10/2020

Here’s a surprise for you. It’s possible that sheep and beef farms could already be net carbon neutral in NZ. According to a new report, sheep and beef farms hold 17% of NZ’s forests – or more technically 17% of NZ’s woody vegetation. On the most generous estimates, that vegetation could be sequestering more GHGs than what all our dry-stock herds are emitting. Even at the least generous estimate the gap is small, meaning an increase in planting or a small decrease in stock numbers could result in a net zero or, even better, net-positive position

https://www.podcasts.nz/is-sheep-and-beef-farming-already-carbon-neutral-possibly-dr-brad-case-aut/

Here’s a surprise for you. It’s possible that sheep and beef farms could already be net carbon neutral in NZ. According to a new report, sheep and beef farms hold 17% of NZ’s forests – or more technically 17% of NZ’s woody vegetation. On the most generous estimates, that vegetation could b...

28/10/2020

Vincent spoke to the indomitable Gary Taylor this week about how Labour can leverage their big election win.

https://www.podcasts.nz/labours-big-mandate-heres-how-they-should-use-it-gary-taylor-environmental-defence-society/

Few names have been associated longer with conservation and environmental protest than Gary Taylor. The executive director of the Environmental Defence Society has taken on mining companies, property tycoons, governments and even fellow conservationists with the cool-headed grit of a long-haul truck...

06/10/2020

Could waterspouts be used to create renewable electricity? Yes, says Kiwi tech investor Brent S. Ogilvie of Pacific Channel. Brent was interviewed by Vincent Heeringa about Vortex Power Systems - an incredible invention that uses waste heat and the power of a vortex to drive a turbine. Check out this and other incredible ideas getting backing from Brent's VC company.



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Could a water spout almost a kilometre high be harnessed to create electricity from waste industrial heat? Yes, says tech investor Brent Ogilvie. Brent is a rare type: a venture investor with a passion for sustainability. A former trade commissioner to New York, Brent was a trustee of the Urban Ecol...