How To Save The World Podcast
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How To Save The World Podcast
Join acclaimed environmental advocate Waveney Warth and award-winning comedian Tim Batt as they explore better ways to a better future. It’s sustainability, the kiwi way: Upbeat. Informed. Simple. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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73 þættirThe Single Most Effective Thing
This podcast show started with Waveney asking the question, “what is the single most effective thing I can do to save the planet?’ Two years on, and 7...
Green Living: Beautiful Extended Whānau
Journey into the world of Koia and Robyn, living sustainably in Manurewa, Auckland, with 9 other whānau members in a ‘not much bigger than average’ si...
Should We Have Less Kids?
The desire to have and love children is one of the strongest, most basic human urges. But studies show that having less kids or no kids is by far the...
How To Buy Organic Food Cheap
Buying organic food (food grown without the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides) is crucial to restoring the earth and protecting our biodiver...
Change Is Coming w/ Leo Murray
One year on from our last discussion with self-described Worm Guy (and Why Waste founder) Leo Murray, he returns to discuss with Tim and Waveney what...
Are EV’s All They're cracked Up To Be?
Many countries including the UK, Sweden, France, Norway and the Netherlands are phasing out combustion engine vehicles in favour of EV vehicles. Here...
Emissions Trading Schemes w/ James Shaw
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the New Zealand government's most powerful tool in reducing the amount of carbon we put into the atmosphere. But...
NZ Seafood: Surprisingly Unsustainable
Seafood New Zealand and our Ministry for Primary Industries tell us that we have a sustainable fishery, but many hapū, marine scientists and ANYONE tr...
Jacqui Forbes - Para Kore & Te Āo Māori
Production Note: Some of this conversation was featured in our last episode. This episode contains the conversations with Jacqui, in its entirety.
Roadtrip to Raglan (Whāingaroa): Part 2
Join Tim and Waveney on a road trip to legendary surf town Raglan (Whāingaroa) to uncover the stories behind the town’s long history of ground breakin...
Roadtrip to Raglan (Whāingaroa): Part 1
Join Tim and Waveney on a road trip to legendary surf town Raglan (Whaingaroa) to uncover the stories behind the town’s long history of ground breakin...
New Year's Resolutions for 2021
We’re bidding farewell to 2020 and a big, hopeful hello to 2021 so time for some intention-setting and New Year’s resolutions.
Waveney’s found a...
Eco Pets
In many homes the family dog or cat occupies a special place in our hearts. We cry when they die (and we all secretly think puppies and kittens are cu...
Sustainable Gift Giving
This holiday season, we're trying to be conscious of not buying plastic-y, non-Earth friendly gifts for people that they may not even like! So we've g...
Plant Milk Review
Concerned about the environmental impact of dairy milk? Heard unsettling rumours about some of the plant based alternatives? Confused about your plant...
FutureFit.nz
Today Tim talks to Danielle, a Sustainability Advocate and Educator from Live Lightly. Live Lightly is a collaboration between community groups, Auckl...
Green Living: Beautifully Urban
How could you possibly live sustainably in an apartment? Don’t you need a bit of earth and a bit of space to crack sustainability? To find out, the Ho...
What's The Deal With Hemp
Why would we focus on one plant? Because Hemp is absolutely incredible, it has a truly impressive number of applications for us humans and is very env...
Bonus: Beyond The Banks
Don't go buying Bitcoin as a green-friendly replacement for your traditional banking needs (but hopefully in the future the underlying technology, Blo...
Finding New Zealand's Most Eco-Friendly Bank
Is your bank doing all that it can to make a difference for good? Banks are one of the most powerful ‘future creators’ in modern society. More or less...
Why Are We Here?
Wait. Why are we here? What are we saving the world from? Join Waveney and Tim as they delve into the reasons behind the reasons to find out why (and...
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...
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 absolute...
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 connec...
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 lo...
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 climat...
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...
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 facilita...
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 Amb...
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...
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 Panto...
How To Compost Right w/ Leo Murray: The Worm Guy
Composting; It's the easiest way to dramatically cut down the waste you send to landfill AND supercharge your garden but we wanted to make sure we wer...
Laundry
PLEASE NOTE: This episode was recorded before things escalated regarding COVID-19. Please follow the health and hyguine advice of your local governmen...
How To Be Happy
In this episode, Waveney and Tim tackle an issue we rarely talk about; How can we make ourselves happy without punishing the planet and environment?
Good News #5
Time for some GOOD NEWS. In this episode Waveney and Tim discuss the positive things happening in sustainability, at home and around the world.
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Six Items Challenge w/ Gina Dempster
Gina Dempster is the Communication and Marketing Manager from Wastebusters, based in Wanaka and a bona fide sustainability legend. She joins Wave and...
Cleaning House
Today we're cleaning house. Tim has offered up all the products used in is flat to clean, disinfect and scour and Waveney has researched the harmful i...
Just Try w/ Sarah Walker, Olympic medallist BMXer
We're joined by the inspirational and massively kick ass kiwi Olympian, Sarah Walker. Sarah is both an Ambassador of Litefoot.nz (an NZ sport organisa...
Coffee
Coffee; We humans drink 2.25 billion cups of it per day but it turns out the method we use to grow the majority of it is pretty harmful to trees, bird...
Climate Action w/ Erica Finnie (of 350 Aotearoa)
Erica Finnie is a community organiser, climate activist and the Director of 350 Aotearoa - the organisation standing up against the fossil fuel indust...