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SeniorNet, 98°

A TelstraClear project in New Zealand

Updated in February 2011

Our aim: TelstraClear aims to recognise the contribution that communications services makes to peoples lives, community wellbeing and local economic advancement. We believe in using our technology to enhance peoples lives, and maximising the value and reach of our technology to ensure access for everyone. Our commitment to making communications ...

Premium project about Children and Families, Computing, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Infrastructure, Innovation, Lifestyle & Behavior, Population, Technology

SuperClubsPLUS, 97°

A TelstraClear project in New Zealand

Updated in February 2011

Our aim: We know for parents and carers, the safety of their children is their number one priority – in the playground, at home and online. As a trusted ISP, TelstraClear has recognised the need to protect Kiwi kids from the darker side of the internet, in terms of cyber-bullying and ...

Premium project about Children and Families, Computing, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Innovation, Lifestyle & Behavior, Sustainability, Technology

Ricoh - Trees For Schools, 91°

A Ricoh New Zealand project in National, New Zealand

Updated in July 2008

Launched in May, Trees for Schools is a Ricoh New Zealand programme where we work with schools around the country to establish schemes for community fundraising selling native plants, in place of other options often high in sugar and fat. We are sourcing New Zealand native seedlings, and subsidising the ...

Project about Education, Environment & Wildlife

Crimestoppers, 66°

A TelstraClear project in New Zealand

Updated in November 2010

Our aim: With our customers, employees and operations spanning the country, TelstraClear is truly a part of community life. Connecting people and communities in a safe and protected way is what we are about, and enabling the establishment of Crimestoppers in New Zealand plays a big part in helping the ...

Premium project about Children and Families, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Industry & Business, Innovation, Law, Lifestyle & Behavior, Population, Technology

How dirty are New Zealand cars?, 62°

A Honda New Zealand Ltd project in New Zealand

Updated in April 2010

LTNZ estimates the average age of any given car on New Zealand roads is 11 years. We estimate that this 11 year old car is emitting between 2.0 û 5.0 grams of HC (Hydrocarbon, or soot) and NOx (Nitrous Oxide) per km. This is a huge amount of ...

Premium project about Air Quality, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Energy Saving, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Pollution, Transport, Travel

Honda Treefund, 62°

A Honda New Zealand Ltd project in New Zealand

Updated in April 2010

For every new car sold, Honda funds the planting of ten native trees. In 2004, Honda New Zealand initiated the TreeFund, which funds the planting of 10 native trees for every new car sold, and individual Honda agents fund a further three trees. The funded native trees are planted locally ...

Premium project about Clean Technologies, Deforestation, Electric vehicles, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business, Logging, Smart Growth

Stellar Trust, 61°

A TelstraClear project in New Zealand

Updated in February 2011

Our aim: At TelstraClear, connecting people and communities in a safe and protected way is our business. This combined with our aim to help create a positive environment for New Zealand’s children, youth and families led us to link up with the Stellar Trust to help them launch into ...

Premium project about Charity, Children and Families, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Health, Law, Lifestyle & Behavior, Population, Technology

Sociedades Del Futuro, 50°

A FISCHE° project in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Mexico

Updated in May 2011

Sociedades Del Futuro aims to work with leading social change agencies to train 180 young Mexican change makers to facilitate collaborative workshops using the NextPlays platform so they can turn social need into commercially viable Social Enterprises. To promote them and working alongside existing incubators and impact investors to turn ...

Premium project about Design, Innovation, Poverty & Development, Sustainability

NextPlays, 49°

A FISCHE° project in New Zealand

Updated in August 2009

NextPlays is a platform for business transformation and sustainable outcomes. NextPlays helps you identify, plan and build the best way forward for your business. The centrepiece of the programme is the NextPLays Lab, a concentrated workshop that delivers an action plan for new opportunities, new customer value and new profit ...

Premium project about Design, Economics, Industry & Business, Smart Growth

Keep your cool, 48°

A Resene project in New Zealand

Updated in August 2009

Keep your cool Ever thought a house or building would look great painted in a sleek, dark colour – then had to shelve plans for fear of the heat damaging the substrate or the building getting unbearably hot in summer? Well, forget all that. Resene Cool Colour technology makes painting exterior ...

Premium project about Architecture, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Weather

Thinair, 43°

A Powerhouse Wind Ltd project in Dunedin, New Zealand

Updated in April 2010

Powerhouse Wind started 3 years ago with the aim of developing the world's best domestic scale wind turbine system. The result is the Thinair wind appliance, now at advanced prototype testing, and soon to enter local production and sales. We believe small wind has a place in the distributed ...

Project about Clean Technologies, Design, Green energy

NextPlays Hanoi, 41°

A FISCHE° project in Hanoi, Vietnam

Updated in May 2010

Bert Aldridge from FISCHE° recently returned from a NextPlays workshop in Hanoi. Organized and hosted by the World Bank Institute, the intent of the workshop was to introduce a tool for building understanding and engagement about sustainable development in Vietnam - you guessed it, NextPlays. It was an amazing experience, not ...

Premium project about Agriculture & Food, Architecture, Green energy, Lifestyle & Behavior, Poverty & Development, Smart Growth, Transport, Water

Jasmax, 41°

An Inzide Commercial Ltd project in New Zealand

Updated in April 2010

Jasmax, an architectural practice, needed a building that not just worked for them as a business but improved Auckland’s urban environment. Objectives included being a good neighbour, setting environmental benchmarks, balancing client work and creative endeavour and reflecting its New Zealand heritage. Using a compilation of Cubic Colours, the ...

Premium project about Architecture, Clean Technologies, Design, Industry & Business, Smart Growth

3M, 36°

An Inzide Commercial Ltd project in New Zealand

Updated in April 2010

3M’s tradition of innovation is legendary. So when it was time to move premises, 3M ensured the new environment encouraged creativity and sustainability. It chose to create a NZGBC Greenstar building adopting innovative building and interior materials. InterfaceNZ carpet tiles were chosen as the flooring, providing an innovative modular ...

Premium project about Architecture, Clean Technologies, Design, Industry & Business, Smart Growth

Better business; Better World (B3W), 36°

A Colmar Brunton project in New Zealand

Updated in April 2010

B3W is Colmar Brunton’s investigation into all things sustainable from the consumers’ point of view. It came about when we recognised that there was an almost total lack of metrics related to New Zealander’s attitudes toward sustainability in comparison to the US, UK and the rest of the ...

Premium project about Consumerism

do1thing.org.nz New Zealand Launch, 35°

A TelstraClear project in Nationwide, New Zealand

Updated in February 2011

Everyone can do one thing to change a child’s life. Every year almost nine million children around the world die from basic, preventable diseases like pneumonia, malaria or diarrhoea before they turn five. Save the Children’s EVERY ONE campaign is about getting health services to the children that ...

Premium project about Charity, Children and Families, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Health, Poverty, Poverty & Development

Use bike trailers to get 10% of all NZers shopping by bike instead of car, 28°

A Cycle Trailers NZ project in Christchurch, New Zealand

Updated in March 2010

Half the embedded energy in food is generated by driving to the market to do your shopping. Stuffing food into backpacks and panniers on a bike is a hassle. Bike trailers are much easier to use and make shopping by bike lots more convenient and fun than taking the car.

Project about Finance & Money, Lifestyle & Behavior, Transport

Resene paint gets even greener, 27°

A Resene project in New Zealand

Updated in May 2010

Resene’s latest ceiling paint has provided another two steps forward in sustainability for the New Zealand based paint manufacturer. The formulation of the Environmental Choice approved Earthsense ceiling paint includes a special renewable extender pigment. This means a fifth of the volume of the final product comes from renewable ...

Premium project about Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Clean Technologies, Design, Industry & Business, Smart Growth

Resene Paintwise, 26°

A Resene project in New Zealand

Updated in August 2009

Painting the town greener Resene is painting the town greener with the extension of the Resene PaintWise paint and paint packaging recovery program, the first comprehensive New Zealand product stewardship program for home decorators. Following nearly five years of development, the Resene PaintWise paint and paint packaging product stewardship programme ...

Premium project about Architecture, Industry & Business, Recycling

Corporate and B2B empty printer consumables collection and fund raising program., 21°

An Inkworks project in Nationwide, New Zealand

Updated in September 2010

Inkworks is actively running a collection program for used printer cartridges from businesses to help reduce the waste going to landfills and to provide businesses with a professional disposal system for their empty and unused cartridges. Inkworks is one of the few companies that pays for usable printer cartridge empties ...

Project about Accreditation, Branding, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution, Population, Recycling, Sustainability

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