SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPION AWARD

Brought to you by the Sustainable Business Network: Profiling key people or teams who have been “sustainability

superstars”.

Alex ReicheEnvirospec

EnviroSpec provides a verification based specification portal for architects and the green consumer. This helps promote truly preferred products and avoids Greenwash.

Brigid Hardy

Brigid Hardy is founder and director of B_E_E a company developing, selling and marketing smart green household cleaning products with world-leading eco accreditation, internationally acclaimed design and top performance.

B_E_E Ltd.

Blockhouse Bay Intermediate School Envirokids

Colin Andrews and Tonya Wyatt, with the help of the Envirokids have implemented worm farms, vegetable gardens and fruit trees in a developing orchard. A recycling process has been put in place to reduce the amount of rubbish going to land fills.

Colin Andrews and Tonya Wyatt

Eco Design Advisor Network A network of independent advisors providing robust, tailored advice on sustainable design for new or existing homes, for homeowners, designers, council staff, tradespeople, and suppliers.

Fabian YukichVilla Maria Estate Wines

Fabian is the champion for sustainability at Villa Maria instilling sustainability and environmental responsibility to the core of the company culture and influencing the industry.

Geoff HendersonWindflow Technology

Windflow Technology is a manufacturer of wind turbines for renewable energy projects and has been at the core of the sustainability movement for almost a decade.

Greg HallKohu Road

Kohu Road crafts New Zealand’s finest ice creamfrom quality ingredients.Greg has championed a common sense approaches to business and personal sustainability throughout his career. When founding Kohu Road, Greg brought this ideals with him and they have become an integral part of the company’s fabric.

Jeanette FitzsimonsGreen Party

Jeanette has been a significant change agent inspiring sustainability action from fellow MPs, members of the public and businesses as well as winning support for Green legislation.

Jerome PartingtonJasmax

Sustainability Manager Jerome is instrumental in ensuring that Jasmax and their clients embrace sustainability as a paradigm shift in behaviour rather than a series of incrementalchanges.

Johann BernhardtBernhardt Architecture Ltd

Bernhardt Architecture Ltd has been established in 1998 as an income-generating architectural office focused on sustainable residential design. It is complemented by the not-for-profit research and public education work of the Building Biology and Ecology Institute, which was established in 1990.

John L Craig

John Craig has a long history as a sustainability advocate. Teaching as Professor of Environmental Management at Auckland University. He Chaired The Natural Step NZ and in this capacity he worked with a considerable number of New Zealand companies to assist them introduce sustainable practices and design.

Karen WarmanResene Paints Ltd

One Resene factory can consume more than 45 tons of raw materials (the same weight as 90,000 blocks of butter) in one day. We educate ourselves and others on the environmental impacts of raw material selection and proactively purchase raw materials with lower environmental impacts.

URS New Zealand provides engineering and environmental expertise to people and projects in communities. Kerry Griffiths is the Principal Sustainability Consultant - Informally she is the companies sustainability challenger and conscience. Mark Drury CEO, describes Kerry as “an innovator, a leader, an educator and a motivator”.

Kerry GriffithsURS

Kevin HealyEcoMatters Environment Trust

EcoMatters was formed in 2002 with the primary purpose of supporting environmental trusts located in Waitakere City. In the last 2 years Kevin Healy has facilitated the growth and development of the organisation from a local resource to a regional one. Staff and project numbers have grown from 14 employees in July 2008 to 35 today

Maggie Lawton & Towards 2060 Team

Maggie Lawton brought together a small core team from within council with further skills and expertise from The Natural Step, Otago Polytechnic, Transition Towns New Zealand, Enviroschools and SBN to develop the ‘Towards 2060 community engagement’

Megan Salole (Nee Hosking) Intersect Trust

Megan had a vision about 5 years ago – people need ways to connect to people in more meaningful ways around the converging crises that our world and communities are facing. She teamed up with several young professionals and established a charitable trust called Intersect.

Michael FieldNorth Shore City Council

Corporate Sustainability practitioner who has worked with a number of large companies on topics ranging from designing and implementing sustainability programmes, developing Carbon Inventories to Sustainability Reporting Frameworks and report assurance. Most recently for North Shore City Council as Sustainability Manager.

Paul Chambers Auckland Regional Council

Project Leader of Sustainability at ARC Paul’s role was to be cost effective and fiscally responsible, while delivering significant resource efficiency and emissions reductions outcomes – all this at no cost to the ratepayer. Paul is now the Sustainability Leader for the new Auckland Council.

Peter Neilson and TeamNew Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development

A CEO-led non-profit business organisation aimed at mainstreaming sustainable practice by influencing policy and business. The Business Council was established 10 years ago by 23 chief executives. Members believe business cannot succeed in societies that fail and have a role in encouraging not only economic growth but improving the environment and society.

Peter YealandsYealands Estate Wines

Yealands Estate Wines is New Zealand's premier sustainable winegrower. Led by legendary entrepreneur Peter Yealands, step by innovative step, they are creating award winning wines and New Zealand's first fully sustainable carboNZero certified winery.

Project Twin Streams Community Coordinators

The Project Twin Streams community coordinators are a group of highly motivated change agents. They are dogged and determined - with a real passion in their hearts to make a difference. They can be difficult to work with but that is only because they have limited tolerance for process. They simply want to get on with making a difference.

Prometheus Finance Limited

New Zealand’s leading social finance provider; offering savings accounts to individuals and organisations who want to use their money to invest in real environmental and social change. Prometheus is the only banking organisation in New Zealand with a mission to lend exclusively to social and environmental initiatives.

Ray SkinnerSustainability Matters

Ray Skinners is an advocate for sustainability within accounting and business services.

Shane WhittakerWellington Zoo Trust

Wellington Zoo has an annual visitation of over 183,000 people. It is their goal to have all Zoo visitors empowered to take environmental actions to protect the environment.

Steven Henry Otago Polytechnic Centre for Sustainable Practice

Steve leads a team of people in developing the long term vision and strategic framework for sustainable practice within Otago Polytech.

Adrienne and Gary DaltonTe Whangai Trust Team

Te Whangai Trust is an enterprise that trains, up skills and advocates for at risk members of the community, specifically at risk youth.

James SamuelTransition Towns Aotearoa NZ

James is an initiator of Transition Towns Aotearoa- a decentralised grass roots response to sustainability challenges such as peak oil and climate change.

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