The woman who started selling cotton and cardboard crackers to rid Christmas of rubbish in 2021 has just kicked off a collaboration with Aussie B- Corp boho fashion giant, Spell. The experiment to turn Spell’s sumptuous rolls of deadstock into waste free Christmas crackers...
2019 PRESS RELEASE As the financial year and business stress reach a unified crescendo, business well-being speaker Linda Wells tells anyone from the self-employed plumber to those at the pinnacle of corporate leadership that the key to averting burn-out is self-awareness. Wells’ new book, Transforming Your...
Otago-based ex-UN aid worker Emma Conyngham’s humanitarian approach to production of a sustainable, fabric Christmas cracker has garnered the heartfelt support of businesses in Christchurch, Auckland and Otago. As well as reducing festive waste, it was the mum-of-two’s decision to engage former refugee sewers...
The crowd funding for a book on Kiwi rammed earth wisdom aligns with an Earth Building Association New Zealand (EBANZ) plea to halt damaging building code changes. Author and Case Basket Comms Director Sally Webster unpacks the shared urgency of these sustainable matters that...
A Kiwi earth-builder says that awarding the coveted World Building of the Year 2017 award to a rammed earth home in China was an exciting turn of events for sustainable building in New Zealand. The Guangming Village, World Architectural Festival win has also inspired...
PRESS RELEASE Last month an international award-winning Kiwi author and mum of two published a Christmas charity box set to raise money and fight child trafficking with charity, Love146. Writing under the popular Jordan Ford moniker, Hamilton based ex-teacher and board member, Melissa Guyan had joined...
Kiwi filmmakers Rob and Zareen Cope used money they had earmarked for a new kitchen to finish a documentary about the harm kids come to online. Instead, they settled for a kitchen that Mr Cope built out of pallets, so they could release Our...
As New Zealand wrestles another wave of Covid 19 into submission, it’s time to attend to the future of our young people, says the new director of young adult independence programme, MIOMO (Making It On My Own.) “Generation Z is going to need character, the...