Sarah Meads tells us about a great community environmental initiative happening in Kelburn and Highbury ... GoEco!

The amazing Laura O'Connell Rapira does many many things but in this interview we talk about co-founding RockEnrol - a group that aims to get young people engaged and voting in New Zealand. Laura told us about their crazy idea to lower the voting age. It's so crazy, it might just work!

Jordan Anderson is the a co-author of a report from JustSpeak called, "Bailing out the Justice System". We talked about why there are more people in prison instead of less, and how we could be spending public money on #abillionbetterthings

We talk to Annabel Wilson of Ravel Productions about their show 'No Science to Goodbye'

Laura went to Race Relations Day in Wellington to speak to organisers and supporters about what they day is about.

You'll hear from Tayo Agunlejika and Pancha Narayanan from Upper Hutt, and you'll hear the Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy.

Wellington Zoo recently celebrated it's 110th year by throwing the Wild Ideas Conservation Symposium, which was about sharing conservation learnings from the world's leading global conservation organisations. B-Side Stories were able to talk to Esther Conway of 21st Century Tiger and Ang Sherpa from the Red Panda Network about the challenges these animals face, how their organisations support them and some tips for us as consumers.

The The Dowse Art Museum has a new exhibition called This Time of Useful Consciousness, featuring New Zealand artists who are chiming into the conversation of the urgency to address global environmental issues. Curator for the Dowse, Melanie Oliver talks to B-Side Stories about the reasons why the artists wanted to be part of the exhibition.

Henry and Laura talk the easiest way to listen to B-Side Stories: subscribe in your favourite podcast app! Choose a free one. Laura recommends 'podcast addict' for android users.

James Smith from BaseJump Improv tells Henry and Laura about Chicago-style improvisation, and the Foundation course available in May 2017.

http://www.basejumpimprov.co.nz/

Stephanie Hill along with her husband Ravi Dass, started their business Mr. Foureyes and a family at roughly the same time. And the business isn't ordinary; it aims to give as much as it gets by helping a child with their eyesight every time YOU buy a pair of glasses. Stephanie talks to B-side Stories about her "normal", as a mum, a business woman and a person engaged with helping her community.