Sustainability Options

06/06/2026

Tauranga whānau - free workshop alert! 🏡✨

Struggling with cold, damp, mould, or big power bills?

Join Jo next week at the Welcome Bay Community Centre for a Healthy Homes Workshop packed with easy tips to make your home warmer, drier, healthier, and more energy efficient.

Renting, owning, or something else — everyone’s welcome.
Details in the poster 👇💚

05/06/2026

🌿 Aotearoa has a $2B annual biodiversity funding gap - and Episode 3 of our podcast dives into what we can do about it.

This week, Nik and Jo chat with Ian Herbert (Biofin Assessment Lead at the University of Otago), who breaks down why NZ needs a natural capital policy, a biodiversity investment fund, and better measurement to guide real change. 📊🌱

Ian also speaks to the importance of intergenerational fairness and valuing nature in all the ways it matters - commercially, ecologically, intrinsically, and for those who come after us. 💚✨

It’s a powerful, eye opening listen.
🎧 Tune in at so.org.nz/our-podcast

03/06/2026

A special FREE GreenDrinks event coming up, this June! ✨

Dr Katherine Trebeck, co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand and Programme Director - Economy for The Next Economy, and Gareth Hughes, Director of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa will be joining us online at the Basestation venue to discuss 'what is a wellbeing economy.' 🌏

The work both Katherine and Gareth are involved in, and in many cases leading, is fundamental in changing the way we think about our economies and what they are here to do. They are both exceptional speakers, able to convey very complex messages in clear and relatable ways.

Thanks to Basestation, this session will be interactive, with Katherine and Gareth able to take a few questions after they've spoken. Following their session, we'll share with you the second series of the Sustainability Options podcast, featuring Katherine and Gareth as well as a range of locals, committed to shifting our economies into models fit for purpose and for the future.

Please register through Humanitix following this link:
https://events.humanitix.com/green-drinks-sevhyufl

📅 25th June, 2026
🕠 5.30pm - 7pm
📍Basestation, 148 Durham St, Tauranga, downstairs in the basement.

Thanks as always to our Green Drinks sponsors, Basestation, Vitality Kitchen - Tauranga and Zeden Cider Co.. We appreciate & 💚 you!

29/05/2026

Episode 2 of our posdcast is now live 🎙️

This week, Nik and Jo chat with Gareth Hughes, Director of WEAll Aotearoa, author, and political commentator.

They explore the work WEALL is doing to amplify grass roots activity nationally as well as internationally. This includes everything from social cohesion through to citizens assemblies as well as practical ways people in business can contribute to transforming our economic system.

It’s a really interesting and inspiring conversation about what change can look like in practice. We hope you enjoy it!

🔗 Head over to so.org.nz/our-podcast to listen now.

24/05/2026

Jo had a great time at Katikati Community Centre delivering another free healthy homes community workshop this week! 🤩

She got to share some handy tips around…
-Managing moisture 💧
-Effective and efficient heating 🔥
-Keeping the warmth in the home 🌡️
-Ventilation
-And more!

We’d love to share these healthy home tips with more whānau, especially with winter coming! Please get in touch with us to enquire about a workshop 👇
https://www.20degrees.org.nz/contact/

Special thanks to Powerco for sponsoring the awesome temperature cards we got to give out!

24/05/2026

Got a knack for sewing or just want to help?

The Tauranga Curtain Bank is calling for volunteers to help sew linings onto curtains. We distribute these curtains out to whānau we see living in cold damp homes.🏠

These curtains make a huge difference in keeping families warm!

To volunteer, please contact 021 142 9815.💚

22/05/2026

Episode 1 of our second podcast season is live! 🎙️

Join Nik and Jo as they chat to Dr Katherine Trebeck. Katherine is a political economist, author, and global advocate for economic system change.💸🌏

Katherine has co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, helped establish the Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership, and worked with organisations like Oxfam, The Next Economy, and universities across Australia and the UK.

In this episode, we talk about what it could look like to work towards systems driven by compassion, and centred on wellbeing, sustainability, and collective prosperity.🤝

It’s a thoughtful and inspiring conversation — we hope you enjoy it.

🔗 Head over to so.org.nz/our-podcast to listen now.

21/05/2026

Season 2 of the Sustainability Options podcast launches tomorrow! 🚀

This season, Nik and Jo take a deeper look into what would it look like to have an economy that supports wellbeing, sustainability, and collective prosperity? 🏞️

Across the series, they explore ideas that challenge conventional thinking, from reimagining growth, to shifting how we define value and success in our economic systems.💡

We can’t wait for you to hear the conversations! 🎧

We’ll share episode one here as soon as it goes live — stay tuned.

Listen across platforms: so.org.nz/our-podcast

19/05/2026

📢 We're excited to announce season two of the Sustainability Options podcast is launching this Friday!

In this second season of the podcast, Nik and Jo explore what it could look like to create an economy that better serves people and the planet. 🎙️🌏

Across the series, they chat with some incredible guests who are already challenging the status quo, sharing different ways of doing business, thinking, and creating change in our current economy. 💵🌱

We would love you to join us for the journey, head over to so.org.nz/our-podcast to see all the platforms the podcast streams on.

13/05/2026

Winter is starting to bite - and for too many whānau in the Bay of Plenty, staying warm is becoming harder and harder.

This SunLive article shares why we’re putting the call out for donations of heaters, wool blankets, curtains, warm clothing, and bedding to support local families this winter. Every donated item can make a real difference in helping create a warmer, healthier home. ❤️

If you have spare wool blankets in the cupboard, a heater no longer being used, or warm clothes your tamariki have outgrown, please get in touch! We'd love to hear from you.

Please help by donating, sharing the article, or spreading the word through your networks:

Heaters and blankets wanted as winter bites