For this week's Green Desk, Mitchell spoke to Hinewai Reserve Manager Hugh Wilson about the Hinewai Reserve, a regenerating area of native forest on the Banks Peninsula.
They discuss its carbon credit system which has become increasingly popular with large businesses allowing them to offset unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions.
The system has allowed the reserve to expand and encompass a significant area on the peninsula which has rejuvenated naturally without planting and minimal pest control. Mitchell begins by asking Wilson a little bit about the history of the Reserve and how its arrived at where it is today.
Ella speaks with James Griffin from Sustainable Business Network about their recent report addressing how businesses can help solve the plastic packaging problem. They discuss what is currently happening to New Zealand's plastic packaging and what this report concluded about what can be done.
Ella speaks with 2018 Callaghan Medal recipient Dr Helen Taylor about her work in conservation genetics. Dr Taylor is researching how inbreeding effects male fertility in New Zealand's native bird species. They disccus her successful science communication campaigns and what genetics can bring to New Zealand's conservation efforts.
Producer Ella Christensen talks with Niven Winchester from MOTU Economic Research Institute about New Zealand’s commitment to zero carbon emissions, following the IPCC report earlier this month.
Ella talks with David Menzes about the impact of climate change on mental health. David is Associate Professor of Psychological Medicine in the Auckland University School of Medicine. They discuss climate change denial and apathy, how to talk about climate change with people who don't agree with you, and how to move the conversation forward. If climate change makes you feel scared or overwhelmed, this conversation might be helpful.
This week on the GreenDesk, Jack is speaking with James Harding from the Antarctic Heritage Trust. For the past few years, the Trust has run an outreach programme called Inspiring Explorers, which takes everyday kiwi’s on adventures to antarctic mountains and the freezing wilderness. Jack asked Harding exactly what the trust does and how one of us can go on an antarctic adventure.
To apply head to https://www.nzaht.org/inspiring-explorers
As doubt around the use of 1080 has flared up in the public sphere and headlines of New Zealand’s media. We thought it was time for the Greendesk address the issue. Jack Marshall has this story.
Jack sat down with Jessie Jane Baker, one half of the Bee’s Up Top duo. The two beekeepers are helping to rehabilitate auckland's suburbs with bees - putting a pep in the step of Auckland’s ecosystem. We sat down with Baker to find how she got into bees.
This week on the Greendesk, Jack Marhall spoke with exGreen MP Nandor Tanczos, who is now a member of the The Cannabis Referendum Coalition. We got Tanczos' views as we build up to the referendum on cannabis and what the Coalitions goals are.