SUSTAINABILITY
inspiring change in practical ways
a sustainability Webinar series
Changing the present to aid the future is top of mind for many. We all know how important sustainability is and that meaningful sustainability can change our future. We also know it’s no longer a choice for business but a mandate. However, not all small to medium size business have the resources and knowledge to respond.
The Parnell Business Association creates video resources to educate and inform businesses and the people in them on how to practically implement some sustainable actions, as small incremental changes DO make a difference.
From workspace, to home space. Implementing sustainable practices is a choice. The more we know, the more we can do.
We have a new Ec0-Bite each month—make sure you subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn to stay on top of the latest videos!
ECO-BITES: BITE-SIZED SUSTAINABILITY STORIES
Our Eco-Bites video series is the perfect way to consume some easy, bite-sized sustainability stories from a range of experts in the sustainability sphere. We have a new Ec0-Bite each month—make sure you subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn to stay on top of the latest videos!
Lisa Eve
Lisa Eve is the Director at Eunomia NZ. Lisa has an MSc in Environmental Science and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management in the UK. She has developed financial models, associated risk assessments, and sustainability appraisal tools to enable informed decisions to be made at an officer and Councillor level.
Lisa has extensive experience in strategic service reviews for local authorities, working at Auckland City Council for four years from 1998 during their full refuse and recycling service review, and working for Bristol City Council in the UK for three years managing the introduction of a city-wide biodegradable waste collection. At the time it was the largest city-wide full organic waste collection in the UK, servicing 165,000 households.
She also has experience in developing policy for sustainability at local authorities and as a consultant. She has a particular interest in construction and demolition waste and has worked successfully on a variety of projects in the sector. Lisa has notable expertise in local authority bylaws and processes and was the lead author on development of a template solid waste bylaw for Waikato and Bay of Plenty Councils.
Miranda Brown
Miranda Brown has been a leader in the sustainable design movement for the past two decades and is driven by regenerative principles that look after nature and all life. Her art and interior design practice draws from the concept of Biophilic Design, connecting humans to nature in built environments to enhance wellbeing. Miranda has taken part in a range of projects and commissions, from residential to corporate office space, has international fashion ranges and has work in collections such as Te Papa.
Emily Jane Dasent
Meet Emily Jane Dasent, owner of Parnell’s Nu to U boutique second-hand store. Nu to U specialises in local and international labels less than 5 years old (unless a remarkable vintage piece) and in excellent condition. Most of the stock is sourced from multiple individual clients, mostly from the local Parnell area, and so Nu 2 U is able to offer an extensive variety of items and labels. Stock is carefully curated to offer only the best pieces which are unusual and unique items, bound to be statement pieces in any wardrobe.
Catherine Bell
Known in Parnell as the founder of Epicure Trading and The Eco Table, Catherine Bell is a cook, food/travel writer, businesswoman, NFP chair and mother—yet, even that introduction doesn’t seem to give her work and her ethos enough credit! With a résumé that also includes co-founding Dish Magazine and founding the Garden To Table Trust, Catherine is a Parnell superwoman who lives and works to make the world a better place for generations to come.
Migel Estoque Wilson
Migel is a Senior Climate Change & Sustainability Advisor in the Climate Innovation and Sustainability team of Tātaki Auckland Unlimited (TAU) – Auckland’s cultural and economic development agency. She leads work across the organisation in climate risk, adaptation, and resilience.
With a Masters in Disaster Management, Migel has worked across the non-profit, corporate, consultancy and government sectors. Migel’s professional outlets cover community resilience building, climate risk analysis & embedding climate and sustainability considerations in decision-making.
Rui Peng
Rui co-founded Critical. with the goal of building an enduring company that exists to manaaki (care for) people and land. As an architect by training, he obsesses over making great products and cares deeply about the creative process designers often embark on to realise their projects.
Frankie Meaden
Touching on topics of sustainability, and how we rely on and are intricately connected to the plant world around us, Frankie Meaden a.k.a Beautifully Frank is known for using recycled materials in her work. Frankie’s art is almost always botanical, with her large-scale sculptural pieces challenging the scale at which embroidery is usually seen.
Her pieces tell the story of the rich biodiversity of our world using colourful rope and recycled street banners in a way that is both impactful and beautiful.
Sophie Cooper
Sophie Cooper is the founder and professional bath bomb tester for Anihana—a sustainable personal care and beauty brand that delivers joy in every pack across the world. Sophie has evolved the Anihana brand since 2016 with support from her growing team of experts. Her mission for the brand is to create 100 million smiles—this is a reflection of her own values that have been instilled into Anihana over the past 8 years.
The disruptive and innovative products from Anihana are now exported to the U.S. and Australia and can be spotted on the shelves of Target, Walmart, Big W, Woolworths, and Coles.
ECO-BITES: BITE-SIZED SUSTAINABILITY STORIES
Our Eco-Bites video series is the perfect way to consume some easy, bite-sized sustainability stories from a range of experts in the sustainability sphere. We have a new Ec0-Bite each month—make sure you subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn to stay on top of the latest videos!
Matt Kennedy-Good
Matt is a sustainability-focused entrepreneur, focusing his time where startups meet sustainability and science. Currently he is leading global growth for Neocrete, which he co-founded in 2018. Neocrete is re-engineering concrete—the world’s building block—to make it regenerative, more durable and carbon neutral. Their goal is to reduce global carbon emissions by 1% each year from 2033. Matt’s background is in business development, government, digital marketing, startups, compliance and law. Previous roles include director of business.govt.nz, the NZ government’s online support for small businesses, building startups, founding an online writing company and working as a commercial lawyer at Goldman Sachs, Standard and Poor’s, and Simpson Grierson.
Jacinta FitzGerald
Jacinta is the Chief Executive of Mindful Fashion, leveraging over 20 years of expertise in the clothing and textiles industry. As a seasoned sustainability strategist, she is dedicated to advancing sustainable practices in fashion and passionate about the power of collaboration to create positive impact. In addition to her role at Mindful Fashion, Jacinta leads MakeGood, a consultancy that works with pioneering brands in New Zealand and worldwide, focusing on integrating circular and regenerative practices at the heart of their operations.
Nicola Waldren
Our latest Eco-Bite guest is Nicola Waldren—the General Manager at the Restaurant Association, which now represents over 2,500 food businesses around the country! Nicola is also project manager for the Association’s new programme, Kai Keepers, which is focusing on tackling the hospitality industry’s food waste. She is passionate about advocating for the best future for the small businesses that make up the diverse hospitality sector in Aotearoa.
Bridget Pyc
Bridget is the Property Sustainability and Relationship Manager for Samson Corporation, focusing on buildings which enhance neighbourhoods, improve occupant well-being, and reduce impact on the environment. Bridget is incredibly interesting and brings a varied background of studies across physics, maths, marketing, sustainable business, and theatre, to deliver creative and practical solutions to business and environmental challenges. We are lucky to have her in Parnell!
Kelly Brown
What we measure, we can manage! Take the first step on your climate action journey by calculating your carbon footprint. Kelly Brown is helping NZ businesses generate more profit and fewer emissions in her role at Greenhawk Chartered Accountants. Greenhawk will measure and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, producing savings for your bottom line as well as the planet.
Peter Sewell
Peter Sewell became the National Sustainability Lead for Rubix with the intention of driving more rapid change within the business, the building sector, and influencing New Zealand’s journey towards decarbonisation and implementation of more renewable energy sources.
Tony Moore
Tony Moore leads Europlan into the future with the goal of reducing waste and improving processes which led to focussing on sustainability across Europlan’s total business. Lately Tony has led Europlan’s wider Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) policy and procedure development with a key focus on labour exploitation and modern slavery. Europlan practices are leading the way not only in Parnell but throughout New Zealand. An inspiring business indeed!
Sophia White
Sophia White is the Environmental Manager at Antarctica New Zealand. Her portfolio covers a broad range of activities from environmental impact assessments of deep field science events on the Ross Ice Shelf to reducing waste generation at Scott Base. She is the carbon neutral government lead for Antarctica New Zealand and also leads the Health, Safety and Environment Committee. She has been a member of the New Zealand delegation to the Antarctic Treaty meeting three times and twice been a representative for the Committee of Environmental Protection (within the Antarctic Treaty Meetings).
Introducing… Eco Bites!
We’re transforming our monthly webinars into Eco Bites—bite-sized interviews with leaders and pioneers in the sustainability space.
Jacqui Lloyd
Jacqui Lloyd has a broad tourism background spanning both the public and commercial sectors including Kelly Tarltons, Tourism Holdings, Tourism Auckland, and offshore with Tourism New Zealand in Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Jakarta, and Sydney. Following time at the Adelaide Convention Bureau, she assumed the leadership role at Destination Marlborough. Jacqui is now the CEO of the New Zealand Cruise Association, the peak industry body and leading voice of New Zealand’s cruise sector.
Nick Swallow
Nick is a Director in the KPMG Private Enterprise team based in Auckland and leads KPMG IMPACT for private businesses. Prior to KPMG, Nick was New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s (NZTE) Trade Commissioner to the UK and Ireland, based in London, where he developed an interest in supporting New Zealand exporters to thrive by understanding European sustainability requirements and market demand.
Emily King
A thought leader in food systems and sustainability, Emily has studied and worked on food systems for over a decade, a journey that’s taken her around the world. She founded Spira in 2017, was named one of Food Tank’s top 20 global food leaders under 40 for her work restoring New Zealand’s food system, and has worked across the country to help cities, businesses, and communities improve their food systems. This year Emily published her first book ‘Re-food’, which advocates for a food systems approach to Aotearoa New Zealand’s troubled food networks – one that takes into account the full paths and processes from the farm to the family table.
Nada Piatek
Nada Piatek is the founder of Again Again, a technology platform that empowers circular, reusable asset management, enabling companies to loan, track and assure returnable packaging that is relevant to an organisation’s goods, customers and brand promise. In doing so, Again Again provides a commercially viable system of reuse that keeps returnable packaging material in circulation.
Bridget Williams
In 2018, Bridget took off her High Court gown and put on a necklace. Thus, Bead and Proceed was born. Bead and Proceed is a social enterprise, which inspires thousands to harness the power of creativity to action the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Bridget’s passion for sustainability and using creativity as a tool for innovation has made her a recognised SDG expert across New Zealand and beyond.
Dawn Baggaley
NZ Post’s Sustainability Manager Dawn Baggaley was a sustainability champion long before big business took it seriously, and she believes that sharing is caring when it comes to sustainability practice in business. Wondering where to begin when it comes to your business’ sustainability journey? Dawn says to just get started, because it’s better to take action now than later.
Bridget Vercoe
Bridget Vercoe discusses her primary responsibility as Principal Business Resilience Advisor at Auckland Emergency Management (when not activated in response), which is to work with small business owners in building resilience to emergency and disruptive events. This includes developing resources, running workshops, and working closely with business and industry partners.
Edwin Massey
Edwin is passionate about New Zealand’s primary sector and natural resource management. Having been the GM Sustainability at New Zealand Winegrowers since September 2019. Edwin champions the importance of sustainability for New Zealand’s wine industry across 6 key focus areas: Water; People, Waste, Climate Change, Climate Change and Pest and Disease.
Sir Ray Avery
When you check out Sir Ray Avery’s LinkedIn, it reads “Improving Healthcare Globally with Game Changing Technologies”, but our Parnell Eco Bite chat with him covered a whole lot more than that. The main take out? Global issues around how we hurt our planet begin, quite simply, at home.
2023
WHAT DO MICROCHIPS & SHEEP HAVE IN COMMON?
2 March
2022
CONSCIOUS GIFTING
3 November
Christine Langdon Slides (pdf)
Christmas at Fantail House 2022 (video)
CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING
6 October
ETHICAL MARKETING
1 September
GREENING THE PROPERTY SECTOR
2 August
TAKING YOUR BUSINESS FROM ‘A’ TO ‘B CORP’
7 July
A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
2 June
ARE YOU AN ECO-CONSCIOUS TRAVELLER?
5 May
Kanika Jhunjhnuwala Slides (pdf)
EMPOWERING BUSINESS SO NATURE CAN PROSPER
7 April
HOW HEALTHY ARE OUR OCEANS?
3 March
Annika and Bhakti Slides (pdf)
2021
LIVING BUILDINGS
4 November
Jerome Partington Slides (pdf)
ETHICAL INVESTING
7 October
FUNDING FOR SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS
2 September
CARBON CREDITATION 101
5 August
Climate Action Tool Box (digital resource)
THE CONSCIOUS CONSUMER
1 July
Villa Maria: EarthGarden (website)
REDUCING WASTE
3 June
Green Gorilla: Reduce Operating Costs (website)
ENERGY & POWER
6 May
Want to read about some of Parnell’s Green Heroes?
As we are all being called upon to take the sustainability challenge seriously, we thought we would like to celebrate some of our business members, large and small, who have been on this journey for a while. We hope that this will inspire more businesses to participate, as even in small ways, we can all take practical steps toward a low carbon future.
Follow the list of Parnell companies taking the lead in this space.