Mission Insights / Episode 03 / Interview 03: Tasman Environmental Trust's Core and Restore Blue Carbon Project
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Tasman Environmental Trust’s Core and Restore Blue Carbon project is a community-based initiative with ambitious plans to measure, protect and restore coastal blue carbon habitats across Te Tauihu, top of the South Island. The project’s two-year pilot (2021-2023) involved taking sediment samples from Waimea Inlet and Onetahua Farewell Spit as a first step towards understanding the stored levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide in these coastal ecosystems. Results offer a first glimpse of the sites’ carbon-sink potential and highlight the important role of coastal wetlands in...
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Mission Insights / Episode 03 / Interview 02: Moananui
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Moananui is a blue economy cluster whose shared goal is to transform Aotearoa New Zealand into a world-leading ecosystem for developing and commercialising blue economy products, services, technology, research and capability, with a healthy ocean at the heart of this. Moananui’s role is to enable businesses, government bodies and other experts to work together with the aim of fast-tracking growth of the ‘blue economy’ – marine activities that generate economic value and contribute positively to social, cultural and ecological wellbeing. The blue economy in Te Tauihu, the top of...
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Mission Insights / Episode 03 / Interview 01: Cawthron Institute
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Nelson-based is Aotearoa’s New Zealand largest independent science organisation. It aims to deliver world-class science that helps to protect the environment and support the sustainable development of primary industries nationally and worldwide. Established over 100 years ago by philanthropist Thomas Cawthron, Cawthron Institute is focused on marine and freshwater ecosystem research that benefits Aotearoa New Zealand’s environment, society and economy. This includes looking at the growth and safety of the seafood sector, the development of bioactive resources and the...
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Mission Insights / Episode 03: Sustainability in the Blue Economy
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Mission Insights in a series of video/podcast interviews which showcase the work of businesses in our region on their journey to reduce their carbon emissions. Episode 03 focusses on the Blue Economy in Te Tauihu. It is hosted by Jodie Kuntzsch of Moananui and Ali Boswijk from the Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce, and features conversations with special guests: Chris Cornelisen, Cawthron Institute Jodie Kuntzsch, Moananui Lauren Walker, Tasman Environmental Trust’s Core and Restore Blue Carbon project We thank our guests for sharing their valuable time and insights. ...
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Mission Insights / Episode 02 / Interview 03: Little Dove Café
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Little Dove Café, based in the centre of Nelson, is a haven for locals and a growing mecca for foodies visiting the region. Inspired by the kitchens of the eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, the café’s handmade, mostly organic soul food is said by its owners, Andrew Clancey and Marianne Navon, to be cooked with integrity and love. This principle extends well beyond the kitchen too. Caring for the environment is an every-day consideration at Little Dove. The team is fully committed to an overriding goal of keeping waste at a minimum by passing on food waste to local chickens,...
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Mission Insights / Episode 02 / Interview 02: Little Beauties
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Little Beauties is a Nelson-based producer of snacks, garnishes, ingredients and powders made from locally sourced excess fruit. It works closely with growers to ensure no fruit goes unpicked, transforming non-conforming kiwifruit, boysenberries and feijoas into a boutique range of whole fruit treats. Wherever possible organic production methods are used and products are packed in Soft Plastic Recyclable packaging. Land health, sustainability and the promotion of unique Aotearoa New Zealand fruits are key values of the business. Crafted with care and made to share, Little...
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Mission Insights / Episode 02 / Interview 01: Golden Bay Fruit
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Golden Bay Fruit is a local fruit export business with global stature, grounded in a commitment to business and environmental sustainability. The company is vertically integrated, working directly with around a dozen major apple, pear and kiwifruit growers based, for generations, in the Tasman region – together packing and exporting produce to over 20 different countries throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Cemented with family values, Golden Bay Fruit, which includes orcharding businesses Birdhurst, Heywood and Wood, came together in the early 2000s to create a...
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Mission Insights / Episode 02: Sustainability in the Food and Fibre sector
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Mission Insights in a series of video/podcast interviews which showcase the work of businesses in our region on their journey to reduce their carbon emissions. Episode 02 focusses on the Food and Fibre sector in Te Tauihu. It is hosted by Gareth Power Gordon from Nelson Regional Development Agency and features conversations with special guests: Heath Wilkins and Eleni Hogg from Golden Bay Fruit Rob Simcic from Little Beauties Andrew Clancey from Little Dove café We thank our guests for sharing their valuable time and insights. ...
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Mission Insights / Episode 01: Understanding sustainability in Te Tauihu
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In our first episode, we want to take the lens away from the fear and complexity of a changing climate and turn the focus on the actions we take here in our community (both as individual businesses and across our regional economy) that help us reduce risk and find competitive advantage in this warming, carbon-constrained world. None of us can predict how climate change will affect our region – or our planet for that matter. But there are a few things we do know for certain: the complex environmental impacts will directly affect business, society, and ecosystems; customers and consumers...
info_outlineLittle Beauties is a Nelson-based producer of snacks, garnishes, ingredients and powders made from locally sourced excess fruit. It works closely with growers to ensure no fruit goes unpicked, transforming non-conforming kiwifruit, boysenberries and feijoas into a boutique range of whole fruit treats.
Wherever possible organic production methods are used and products are packed in Soft Plastic Recyclable packaging. Land health, sustainability and the promotion of unique Aotearoa New Zealand fruits are key values of the business.
Crafted with care and made to share, Little Beauties challenge traditional methods of food production by bringing joy and delight to the table.
Interview with Rob Simcic, Little Beauties, hosted by Gareth Power Gordon, Nelson Regional Development Agency
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Thank you to the Nelson Regional Development Agency for their support for Mission Insights.