Sustainability

This year iD Fashion Week is in its 17th year. Thirty-nine emerging designers from 15 countries will have the opportunity to show their work before a panel of local and international judges. The… Audio

The Langham Hotel Auckland has beaten its sister hotels worldwide to win the best sustainable tree award. For the 2015 holiday season, the Langham group's corporate director of sustainability, Carmen… Audio

Eco Design Advisor with Hamilton City Council on sustainability and environmental awareness in day-to-day life. Today, water saving around the home. Audio

Four years ago the Tolaga Bay community asked the Allan Wilson Centre for evolutionary biology to help it clean up the areas waterways and create a healthier, more collaborative community. Together… Audio

Puppets are more than simply child's play, according to Jim Richards and Bridgette Murphy who work with community groups, schools and organisations around New Zealand making giant puppets and other… Audio

Space Between is a sustainable zero waste fashion design project run through Massey University. Sonia Sly meets the designers and team behind the project to look at why they're reconstructing… Audio

When Henry Clothier wanted to rejuvenate the public toilets in the small South Waikato town of Tirau, he knew just the man for the job - his son Steven. That's because no-one else wanted to tackle… Audio, Gallery

Matthew Yeomans is the author of the annual Social Media Sustainability Index, which analyses how the world's biggest companies use social media to communicate how sustainable they are. He runs… Audio

Papua New Guinea NGO wants spotlight on SABLs at a meeting of APEC Forest Ministers in Port Moresby in October. Audio

Doing our day to day lives more sustainably and environmentally aware, with Ian Mayes, Eco Design Advisor for Hamilton City Council. Audio

An Auckland art project is trying to change our thinking about fashion, by encouraging us to create zero waste garments. For Make/Use a design team based at the Objectspace gallery are designing… Audio, Gallery

Ben Gleisner is the co-founder and national director of Conscious Consumers, a social enterprise that connects consumers with businesses who care about looking after the planet and being a good… Audio

Energy efficiency in the home, insulation and heating plus a bit about the Eco Design Advisor scheme. Audio

By utilising creative energy and a clowning spirit, Tejopala Rawls and Giovanni Fusetti aim to positively influence what will be the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris this December 2015. Audio

In 2009 a group of Banks Peninsula sheep farmers pooled resources and formed the Banks Peninsula Farms Wool Growers Company to increase the value of the wool and to strengthen their farming community… Audio

Associate Professor of Politics and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, who will lead one of nine research teams for the new international Centre for the… Audio