Air New Zealand Environment Trust Animation
Really cool animation we found at the Air New Zealand Environment Trust website. It chronicles New Zealand’s ecological history and is well worth a look. To view the animation click on the image below.
Wendy at the Harvard Business School
Wendy is currently attending a short course at the Harvard Business School. The course, ‘Driving Corporate Performance’, is for senior financial executives. Wendy has been keeping us up-to-date with what’s happening: The above is a picture of the lecture theatre with Professor Robert S. Kaplan surrounded by students at the end of a presentation. They...
Leadership New Zealand Presentation
Leadership New Zealand put on a great event last night to discuss ‘New Zealand’s Strategic Direction – Building a Blueprint’. Speakers included Joris de Bres (Race Relations Commissioner), Dr Selwyn Katene (Director MANU AO Academy) and Adrian Wimmers (Director Corporate Finance KPMG). Wendy’s speech notes are as follows: [slideshare id=4160136&doc=lnzspeech-202020205242-phpapp01&type=d]
Sustainable Future Team
We are always excited to see new thinkers join the team, and saddened to see experienced ones go. We have had a few changes to the team over the past year. We lost a much loved and respected member of our team when Richard Shonakan passed away after a long illness in February. Richard was...
Participatory Policy Analysis Seminar
Presented by Dr. Valentina Dinica Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington 16/04/10 Participatory Policy Analysis (PPA). A seminar on the potential usefulness of PPA models in helping develop optimal solutions to ‘wicked’ policy problems.Valentina gave an overview of the philosophical ideas behind why we might use participatory tools in policy development – essentially asking...
Reform in Paradise II
A reminder for those of you interested in environmental reform – EDS is holding a second Reform in Paradise conference in June. Speakers so far include: Hon John Key, Prime Minister Hon Dr Nick Smith, Minister for the Environment Hon Christopher Finlayson, Minister for Treaty Negotiations and Attorney-General Metiria Turei, Co-leader, Green Party of Aotearoa...
Farm gate to plate
Adding to the heated food miles debate of recent years, AgResearch have completed a major study detailing the carbon equivalents released by New Zealand lamb exported to Europe. The report builds on work done by Landcare Research and Lincoln University’s Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit (AERU) in 2020, by comprehensively measuring the carbon footprint of...
Steph’s time in Zambia
Steph Versteeg moved to Zambia in January with VSA, to teach in the capital of Western Province. After nearly one month of training in preparation for work in Zambia’s 14 teachers’ training colleges, Steph was placed at Mongu College of Education. Here she worked with the college to establish the Teachers AIDS Action Program, with...
Antarctica: Terra Nullius?
We would like to highlight Downstage Theatre’s brilliant ‘Dialogues with Tomorrow’. The series places artists and cultural commentators in discussions with scientists, business people and other thinkers; the theme of the discussions relates in some way to climate change. On April 15, the first discussion will focus on the great southern continent, Antarctica: Terra Nullius....
They are onto us…
Following the Guardian article in November last year, once again New Zealand has been accused of greenwash by international media. Playing once again on our ‘connection’ with Middle Earth, this time it is the Economist questioning our commitment to the Clean and Green tag we use so freely to sell our wares overseas. With plans still in...
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