How To Save The World
How To Save The World Podcast
Playlist by How To Save The WorldAn environmental podcast that uses science, humour and suggestions on real world action you can take to make a positive contribution to help the planet. Hosted by Waveney Warth (an environmental advoc…Follow the podcast:
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See You Soon!
Please fill out our listener survey to help us improve the show and find out what you want to hear about (you'll also go in the draw to win a Prezzie Card!): https://forms.gle/xxgyFmzqviFD4NHL9 Waveney and Tim are taking a break after an entire year of weekly episodes before they come back with a…
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How To Save The Bees
In this episode, Tim is joined by Margaret from Kiwimana Buzz and Jess from Bees Up Top to chat about how we save the bees! Bees are an absolutely critical part of our environment and food chain but facing multiple pressures from human encroachment, industrial mono-culture food production and pest…
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NZ Sustainability Icons; Liam and Hannah
Giants of the sustainability movement in Aotearoa (and self-styled No-waste Nomads), Hannah Blumhardt and Liam Prince talk to Waveney about the connection of individual action to big change, what they were up to in lock-down, the origins of their (and Wave’s) journey into waste reduction and the de…
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Good News #6; Super Bees and MOAR (renewable) POWER
Waveney and Tim have some sustainability good news from over the world, including; A reduction in stresses on the environment during COVID-19 lockdowns, plus bike sales are way up, Amsterdam is trialing using Kate Raworth's Donut Model of economics for policy-making and investors flocking to green…
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Earning A Sustainable Living
We got a listener question from Jules, asking us ‘what careers or tertiary education choices can kids focus on with the view to aiding positive climate change action?’ Great question! In this episode we talk about what constitutes a ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ job, discuss the automation threat (and o…
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How To: Home Winter Garden
Welcome to the absolute rock bottom beginner guide to gardening. This episode is for you if you expect it to take about 5 minutes a day to garden, don’t compost properly, don’t particularly love the idea of gardening, and think you can put a seedling in an abandoned old garden bed and it will have …
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Better Futures w/ Shane Ward
We chat to Shane Ward about the recently launched Better Futures Forum (BFF), the hot new platform where New Zealanders are meeting to facilitate the transition towards a more resilient Aotearoa. BFF is seizing the transformational power of COVID-19. In just three weeks since it launched, the or…
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Sea Life w/ Clarke Gayford
Clarke Gayford (Fish of The Day host and partner of NZ PM Jacinda Ardern) joins us to talk about the haunting sound of his morning alarm, being an Ambassador for NatGeo’s Planet or Plastic and his obsession with the ocean. Growing up in Gisborne and falling in love with fishing, Clarke has spent hi…
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The Youth Movement w/ Luke Wijohn (Green Party politician)
Luke Wijohn is just 18 years old and running for Parliament - In the Prime Minister's Electorate, no less. After being a lead organiser for NZ's Youth Strikes for Climate, Luke decided to run as a Green MP in this year's election. We chat about his desire to change the conversation we're having wit…
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Microplastics; A hidden disaster
A lot of the information in today’s episode comes from Waste MINZ fantastic webinar on microplastics delivered by Dr Grant Northcott and Dr Olga Pantos. Check out the webinar here. This episode, we’re discussing microplastics - What they are, why they’re bad and what can we do about them. Plastic…
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