Jerome Partington, a Regenerative Development Practitioner, and Associate Principal and Sustainability Manager at Jasmax, empowers us to evolve how we think about climate change and our relationship with the environment around us. What if we looked beyond problem solving and aimed higher than settling for just sustainable solutions or outcomes? 

Jerome introduces a regenerative approach where he encourages us to be pulled towards the inherent potential within any situation. If we see our businesses, communities, and ourselves as whole living systems within a larger living system we can focus on growing the potential within them. We can honour the participants in each system, their roles and their interactions.

Are you a “possibilitairian” or a “miniscularian”? 

Ever think about how much insurance will cost in the future in the wake of climate change? Will it be affordable for all? For any?

In this talk, Dr. Anake Goodall bravely voices his discomfort, tension, and the destabilising feelings that we all sense, and perhaps don’t talk enough about, when it comes to living a time of climate change. 

Has carbon emissions become a fatigued topic? Is it losing its emphasis with constant chatter about offsetting instead of how to reduce our warming in the first place? 
We see it like this... like other times when the world has had to come together to fight for what is right, we all have contribute to this battle. Every person who is consuming and emitting carbon, methane or other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere needs to do their bit for the world. Wield our swords and cut #ghg emitting consumption.
How do we know how much damage we're doing and how much we have to wield our sword?  
Some ways are incredibly labour intensive, counting up every gram and kilojoule of energy and waste, which in itself can be overwhelming. There are now many who are way more efficient. We have teamed up with cogo - taking the lead on measuring and reducing carbon emissions for over a decade. It provides a carbon footprint management tool for private businesses and public organisations to measure, understand and reduce their impact on the planet. It enables efficient and powerful insight and partners up with some of the world's largest banks to integrate leading carbon tracking functionality into their banking apps. 
Check out Josh Dry, Director of Business Development at Cogo, speak about Cogo’s efforts to empower decarbonisation and get a preview into what Cogo looks like and can do in the hands of consumers.
Another Aotearoa New Zealand born business making impact for the survival and thriving of our earth.

Why is how you report on ESG, sustainability and your positive impact on Mother Earth important?

Feeling like everything ahead is doom and gloom? It can easily spiral that way without a different lens. We are very fortunate to work with the eminent leader Cheryl Doig. As a professional futurist and advocate of social and environmental change, she provides a lens that helps puts leaders in an optimal state of mind in preparation for an uncertain future.

Do you know about Overshoot Day?

Martin Cudd, GM for Innovation and Business for Christchurch NZ is one of the leaders helping to steward a long term vision for Ōtautahi Christchurch and its region towards a regenerative economy.

Watch or listen to this video in which Martin further defines what a regenerative economy means for the Canterbury region and speaks to the 10 year objectives and priorities being deployed to guide investment in the city’s economy over the next decade. The promising goal of this work is to grow and strengthen our regional economy while building a robust foundation for a regenerative future.

We look forward to working together and seeing it a reality! Thanks Martin. 

If you listen to one thing about climate change, listen to Dr Rod Carr share what we consider “Life on a Changing Planet 101”.

Dr Rod Carr Chairperson of Climate Change Commission, (Aotearoa NZ’s eminent leader on climate), brings the statistics and numbers we hear about with climate change into perspective. Whether the earth heats to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius doesn’t seem real until it impacts our backyard. 

In this podcast Dr Carr imparts a dose of earth insight and wisdom we really ought to hear. He speaks to the reasons that we need to make rapid change and provides an overview of the realities and opportunities in areas such as electricity, transportation and agriculture.