Sustainable
From farm to fabric to fashion
Georgina Lawson and her husband Willie farm 3000 sheep at Merton in North Otago. Last year, Georgina launched a line of 100 percent woollen coats made from the clip of their farm's Romdale hoggets. Audio
From farm to fabric to fashion
Georgina Lawson and her husband Willie farm 3000 sheep at Merton in North Otago. Last year, Georgina launched a line of 100 percent woollen coats made from the clip of their farm's Romdale hoggets.
AudioWhy Homo sapiens are doomed to go extinct
In his new book, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, British palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist Dr Henry Gee offers a rather blunt assessment of why humanity might already be a dead… Audio
Calling Home: Rod Snowdon in Giessen, Germany
Professor Rod Snowdon was only meant to be heading to Germany for a short while when he first arrived in 1993, but circumstances changed, and over a quarter of a century later he remains based in… Audio
Buying sustainable - why we're being put-off.
Sustainable and environmentally-friendly products are becoming more and more prevalent...but how can we be certain that what we're buying is legitimately organic? Audio
Allbirds - The right amount of nothing
Former World Cup soccer player Tim Brown on finding the right amount of nothing in an overcrowded market and why launching his sustainable footwear label, Allbirds wouldn't have been made possible in… Audio
Family Fruit
Kiwifruit and avocados grow particularly well in Northland. Now the Malley family of Maungatapere is adding raspberries, blackberries and figs to the mix. Audio, Gallery
Family Fruit
Kiwifruit and avocados grow particularly well in Northland. Now the Malley family of Maungatapere is adding raspberries, blackberries and figs to the mix.
AudioBioplastic Repairs
FORMcards are handy, pocket-sized cards of meltable bio-plastic; just heat them up and mould them to repair your stuff from a knob for your stereo to a canoe! Peter Marigold is the inventor. Audio
Blockhill
Motivated by the converging problems of environmental degradation, over population, peak oil and climate change, Olmec and Melisa Sinclair employ permaculture principals to develop resilient solutions… Audio, Gallery
Blockhill
Motivated by the converging problems of environmental degradation, over population, peak oil and climate change, Olmec and Melisa Sinclair employ permaculture principals to develop resilient solutions…
AudioLongpush Pork free range pigs
Naya Brangenberg and Jeremy Wilhelm moved to the Wairarapa on a small farm to enjoy the quiet life on a few hectares of land and got a couple of pigs for food. But one theing led to another and now… Audio
Milking on the Moove
After Glen Herud saw a picture of a Belgium farmer milking cows in a portable shed, it dawned on him that a cowshed could be totally mobile and as a result, he's developed a cowshed on wheels that… Audio
Milking on the Moove
After Glen Herud saw a picture of a Belgium farmer milking cows in a portable shed, it dawned on him that a cowshed could be totally mobile and as a result, he's developed a cowshed on wheels that…
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