2011-09-14 16:03:56 // Sustain Team
// The Idealog Blog
The realities of climate change might float in and out of people’s consciousness, but starting tomorrow campaign '24 Hours of reality’ is hoping to drive the shaky reality home on a global scale. The brain child of Al Gore, the campaign consists of a new multimedia presentation created by Gore that will be delivered once per hour for 24 hours over September 14 and 15. Kicking off New Zealand’s participation will be founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Business Network, Rachel Brown, who will deliver Gore’s multimedia presentation at an event at Auckland Museum. You can watch the event unfold, including the New Zealand leg, online or if you fancy getting out and mingling, a series of viewing parties have been organised around the country.
2011-09-07 10:29:40 // Sustain Team
// The Idealog Blog
From wine to architecture, banks to the health sector, the winners from last night’s Northern Sustainable Business Network (SBN) Awards show sustainability can creep into just about any industry. The SBN Awards recognise businesses that demonstrate leadership by embracing innovation, sustainability and regenerative practices in their day-to-day operation, and among this year's winners are Tahi Estate and new kid on the block, Localist.
2011-03-30 11:14:45 // Deirdre Robert
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A new era of mainstream sustainability has been the selling point at today’s Sustainability is Mainstream conference, which was put on by the Sustainable Business Network. But from the impressive list of morning speakers (many of which it was joked were folically challenged), not everyone got on board. Well, not exactly anyway. Resene’s technical director Colin Gooch debated whether or not it is in fact mainstream. Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn’t. But what he does know is that practicing sustainability is commonsense.
