These guys need capes and perhaps should wear their undies over their tights, because they are aiming to raise funds to provide 50 000 meals this month, with the “Miss a Meal in May’ campaign. We talk to volunteers and recipients of our food rescuers about what is so good about not putting our food waste in the landfill and getting it to those that could really do with it.
are doing a seriously good job of getting climate change higher on the political agenda. I had a chat with Paul Young, Generation Zero’s spokesperson, at one of their political stunts outside Parliament, about other countries that DO have a climate change plan and an opportunity that NZ cannot afford to miss.
For many years I have been wanting to ask about her journey in music, how she came to live in Welly and what it is like having as your Dad. So on her recent trip back from New York she came in to have a chat about these things. She also uncovered some interesting points about the differences between performing in Wellington and New York and what made Wellington’s musical heyday. Her new band also goes off the richter scale in reviews every time they play live.
I met Liz Gibson and Alan Berman from on a couple of our school trips. I was so astounded by their commitment in getting hundreds of kids in and out of wet suits so that they can know our Marine Reserve, that I got them out of the water, to come and talk to us about why they never get tired of doing this.
Jeremy Taylor of Wellington’s longest running independent record store talks about Record Store Day at Slow Boat 2014, why records are still so loved and his best day ever!
Like many others I thought permaculture was just about gardening, until I started looking into the . Then I became more intrigued by the collection of smart minds sharing their stories and knowledge at this event. So organizers Kaye Maree, Linnea and Brittany came to discuss the bigger idea behind permaculture and why they have devoted their careers to it.
Sheyne Tuffery has a vision that Welly could be as muraled up as Mexico City and San Francisco, so he has just created a massive new mural in Mt.Cook.
He talks about the effect painting this mural has had on the local community, where his crazy architecture inspiration comes from and how two art teachers at Newlands college are so influential to him and his brother becoming artists.