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716 Articles by Vincent Heeringa

Join us as we expand your green business news offering

As the editor of Celsias, it’s been a pleasure to be part of a growing network of readers and experts concerned about climate change. This newsletter is the last one I’ll be sending as editor as I get set to launch Idealog’s new green business offering, Idealog ... keep reading

Written by Deirdre Robert in June 2011, about Clean Tech, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Innovation

Making a sustainable impact in the society we operate in

Listen as "hardcore businessman" Anders H. Lier explains why being a passionate business man doesn't negate the need to have a heart when it comes to operating as a socially responsible member of society. The founding chairman of Naandi Norway, a charitable foundation that supports the education of more ... keep reading

Written by Deirdre Robert in June 2011

One step forward and one step back at 2011 UN Climate Change Conference

The climate talks that have recently taken place in Bonn, Germany offered, perhaps not surprisingly, no solid way forward and a rather mixed bag of results.  Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, recently summed up progress, saying progress has been made on key ... keep reading

Written by Celsias Team in June 2011, about Climate Change

Key’s watered down ETS stance

The carbon tax debate is a long way off being resolved and when Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced this week that Australia and New Zealand would be working closely together to link its respective emissions schemes, it sparked a number passionate reactions from both John Key and Australian opposition ... keep reading

Written by Celsias Team in June 2011, about ETS, Politics & Government (1 comment)

Idealog’s new, free, green-business newsletter is coming—with wine

Idealog is expanding its offering of green business with the new Idealog Sustain—a website, print section in the magazine and a free weekly newsletter that brings together the latest business, sustainability, cleantech, innovation, climate change and CSR news from New Zealand.The launch of Idealog Sustain is just around ... keep reading

Written by Deirdre Robert in June 2011, about Win

Australian company mines its own business as it pushes forward with controversial open cast plans

It seems almost every other month there’s a new case of a mining company seeking consent to mine picturesque Kiwi locations. Bathurst Resources, an Australian company backed by Chinese money, is the latest company to seek resource consent for land in New Zealand, this time eyeing up a new ... keep reading

Written by Celsias Team in June 2011, about Coal & Oil, mining, Politics & Government

When everything falls apart, you put it back together

Since the First Light team’s last blog, the house in Wellington’s Frank Kitts Park has been in the process of gradually being disassembled and packed up in preparation for its long journey to the US. But with rain making things a little dirty and numerous house parts to ... keep reading

Written by First Light - NZ Solar Decathlon in June 2011, about Architecture, Solar, Sustainability

A low-carbon economy through clean energy investment

WWF's new report, Enabling the Transition – Climate Innovation Systems for a Low Carbon Future, tells us what we already know: The business as usual approach we’ve adopted when it comes to the use of earth’s resouces will lead to inevitable catastrophe. But there’s a number of ... keep reading

Written by Deirdre Robert in June 2011, about Climate Change, Green energy

Volcanoes, drought, ice, LED’s, solar and climate skeptics on this week’s Climate Show

A busy news week sees Glenn and Gareth discussing the volcanoes in Chile and Africa that are busy pumping ash into the atmosphere and disrupting flights in South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Plus, what’s with the extreme spring in the USA, the drought in Europe ... keep reading

Written by Deirdre Robert in June 2011, about Climate Change

Murder in the Amazon

Here’s a great story by The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson, who catches up with Israel Klabin, a Brazilian industrialist concerned by proposed changes to Brazil’s “Forest Code”, which include relaxing a lot of the current logging restrictions. Although the changes are only proposed, since the announcement ... keep reading

Written by Jon Lee Anderson in June 2011, about Forestry, Politics & Government

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