Category Archives: Social & Civic

Darren Hoskins – our Welly waste

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I don’t think there are too many landfills that can boast a trout farm, an electricity generation plant as well as their own Bio Grow certified Capital Compost. And I wouldn’t have called the landfill a place I’d want to hang out at for long, but on my quest to find out what happens to my rubbish I met Darren Hoskin’s, our Southern Landfill Operations Manager, who has been working (well hanging out) at our Southern landfill for 21 years. Something in the water?

And you’ll never guess what the biggest resource that could be the next major opportunity for us is….actually you’ll never guess. You’ll have to listen. And it’s not the tyres.

 

Silvia Zuur – on learning and leading

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Silvia Zuur is one of those Wellington women we’re sure to be seeing a lot more of, as she already has quite a few nominations under her belt including being a finalist in the Women of Influence Awards 2013. As a board member of , she is passionate about supporting other social entrepreneurs to get social enterprises off the ground. And this is all on top of being the founder and CEO of her own social enterprise, , an online community platform that connects people that have things to teach with people who want to learn.

In this interview we find out what motivates this young woman in her relentless quest for learning new things, and her passion of wanting us to learn too. We also get a few tips on keeping chickens.

PS. listeners there is an awesome song by “the Clean” in the middle of this interview that you can fast forward if you are time poor, but if you are not, please take some time to enjoy.

http://chalkle.com/learn

http://www.enspiral.com/

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/20151351/nicanor-perlas,-solidarity-economics

 

Glen McDonald – the inclusion solution

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After 21 years of commitment to it was a pleasure to share some great incites from coordinator Glen McDonald. In this interview, she talks about the Vincents’s recipe that has had a positive effect on many people’s lives, as well as an interesting take on why she see’s Wellington as a “healthy” city and shares her view on the simple change that could help the nation.

Vincents is also having an exhibition for Mental Health Awareness Week that is on until 22nd October, –

Christian Pilkington – 40 years of fair trading

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Once upon a time, 40 years ago in fact, long before we had heard of the terms fair trade and social enterprise, a little shop called , opened it’s doors up two flights of stairs, completely unaware of the global movement they were pioneering.

In this interview longtime manager Christian Pilkington talks about what has made this unique business model thrive, some of the people and movements that have unofficially incubated at Trade Aid and the next step we need to take in our purchasing power.

I was quite moved and humbled at the 40th birthday bash when I realized that the founders of this store were pioneering ‘Fair Trade” and “Social Enterprise’ long before these concepts had their names.

Anj Barton, Kim Partridge – raising the bar for Shakti

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And I have only recently heard of the Women’s Support Group who are having a big fundraiser at Meow this Saturday. Organizers Kim Partridge and Anj Barton tell us what Shakti Wellington do AND there is a LIVE sneak performance from artists playing at the fundraiser, a stunning new song from  and Anj Barton’s and Tin Gau’s band Ready Sett. Yahoo…..

http://www.shakti.org.nz/

Jean Watson – star of the star people

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No one would know this 80 year old Berhampore resident, Jean Watson would have such an unusual life creating a children’s orphanage in India called the . And after 30 years of doing this, Jean is now the star in the film telling her own story, which featured in the NZ International Film Festival and has just been released in theaters around New Zealand.

In this interview I had the amazing opportunity to talk to Jean for and get some simple yet real insights on her life that could be meaningful to us all. 

http://www.karunai-illam.org/

http://www.nziff.co.nz/2014/wellington/aunty-and-the-star-people/

Teuila Grace Tualaulelei – enrolment queen

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Not only is she the beautiful lady who brings us lovely flowers at the Newtown market, Teuila Grace Tualaulelei, aka Mrs T, is a Field Officer for the Enrollment Office…sound too official? She has been on the front line getting people to enrol to vote for months. In this interview Teuila talks about what it really looks like out there in terms of where our gaps are….I am sure she has a good snap shot on the state of the nation too. And she has an important message for anyone who thinks it is too late to enrol.

http://www.elections.org.nz/