Episode Notes Mike Burrell, Executive Director, talks about the recent Future of Work Forum, our Pre-Election Brief, and our upcoming Impact Framework. And Roger Robson-Williams is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Plant and Food Research and has just completed the Sustainability Leadership Programme 2020, held in conjunction with Catapult. He talks about the sustainability challenge he took to the programme and how it is helping Plant and Food Research make progress on that. This podcast is p...
Jul 30, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Episode Notes Mike Burrell, Executive Director, talks about what to expect at the SBC Annual Council Meeting and Strategy launch on 19 August, combined with a Climate Leaders Coalition business breakfast. And Steve Dixon, General Manager for Strategy and Partnerships at Toitū Envirocare looks at how we can support farmers to understand their carbon footprint and start to reduce it. The Toitū Farm Carbon Footprint program is a collaboration between Toitū Envirocare, Beef+Lamb, DairyNZ, Pamu, Over...
Jul 16, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Episode Notes Mike Burrell, Executive Director, welcomes seven new members, talks about what to expect when you join SBC, and pays tribute to one of our longest-standing champions. Mercury has recently launched the new Cosy programme in collaboration with EECA and Greenside, to help families and households make their homes warmer, drier and healthier, as well as more energy-efficient. Julia Jack, Chief Marketing Officer, talks about how the Cosy programme lines up with their values, as well as o...
Jul 09, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Episode Notes Mike Burrell, Executive Director, talks about how members are helping New Zealand during Covid-19, how members are adapting to the new normal, and how we can identify what will be important to New Zealanders during the recovery. In the first of our member profiles, Dane Ambler talks to Becky Lloyd, CEO of Toitū Envirocare about how the lockdown has changed what they do, and what the priorities should be to make sure we keep emissions down for the recovery. This will be the first of...
May 07, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Episode Notes Big questions need big answers. Questions like how to adapt to technological shifts, how to put humanity at the heart of all decision making and how to lead change in an ever changing world. In this episode of Sustainability Radio we talk to Sarah Hindle, GM of Tech Futures Lab, on how they plan to help people answer these big questions through their Post Graduate Certificate for Human Potential in the Digital Economy. SBC is working alongside Tech Futures Lab to shape the sustaina...
Feb 19, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Episode Notes In this episode, Andrea Thompson at Catapult talks about sustainability leadership development - what it is, why it's needed, and opening up the SBC Sustainability Leadership Programme to non-members. This podcast is powered by Pinecast .
Jan 16, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Episode Notes In this episode, we chat to Pravin Sawmy, our new Member Manager about his role, and what he did pre-SBC, and we talk to Robert Perry, our Sustainable Leadership Manager about the Sustainability Leadership Programme for 2020. This podcast is powered by Pinecast .
Dec 19, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Episode Notes Kat MacDonald, Sustainability Manager at Lion New Zealand, and Claire Baldwin, Head of Partnerships at the Graeme Dingle Foundation, talk about what makes for a successful community partnership. This podcast is powered by Pinecast .
Nov 28, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Episode Notes In this episode, we hear back from the recent Sustainable Brands conference in Seoul, and we talk to Sunny Vergese, WBCSD Chair and Group CEO of Olam International. This podcast is powered by Pinecast .
Nov 13, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Episode Notes Mike Roan, Chief Financial Officer for Meridian talks about why sustainability is important for the role of CFOs, and why Meridian has become the first company in New Zealand to report using the Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Framework. This podcast is powered by Pinecast .
Oct 16, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
