Nigel Benton is a builder who’s using his 44 years experience to divert construction and demolition waste out of landfill. He’s teamed up with Auckland Council, Unitech and a previous guest of mine, David Knight of Junk Run featured in episode 16,  to develop a nationwide strategy that could potentially deflect a whopping 90% of building materials from clogging up our tips.   If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165   Contact Nigel Benton Email: [email protected] Nigel’s philosophy is to 'Just start' Article on Nigel’s build https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/41698 Repair Café NZ https://www.repaircafeaotearoa.co.nz/ Article on the Intricate world of seashells https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/seashells-photos/?utm_campaign=5%20things%20from%20the%20week&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=218445771&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9sNRzFd2YK-qLp9G_R5SawKh6nj5pPpR4VAFzYBUNhLu1hl3_kZ1ql7NXcBYe1xBJgMgH2xG0bg1tlAlj9l-Kx_UX8nw&utm_content=218445771&utm_source=hs_email Plastic Free pledge for July https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/take-the-challenge/ Sustainable Business Awards nomination: Sustainability Superstar and/or Communicating for Impact categories https://enter-the-sustainable-business-awards-2022.paperform.co/ Protect Antarctica https://only.one/act/antarctica Graphic novel of Antarctic fish with tumors https://blogs.uoregon.edu/antarcticxcell/   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/  

Keep New Zealand Beautiful is a not for profit organisation who’ve sustained their efforts for 55 years to eradicate litter and beautify the country. I’m joined by Mike Buddle who recently joined this iconic organisation because he loved their ethos. He explains what they have and will be doing to keep the clean green image New Zealand has in the fore front of peoples minds. Keep NZ Beautiful website: https://www.knzb.org.nz/ Mike’s favourite quote: “If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”  Pete Seeger The Japanese Art of Wrapping with Fabric – Furoshiki https://www.invaluable.com/blog/furoshiki/ Sustainable Business Awards nomination: https://enter-the-sustainable-business-awards-2022.paperform.co/ Plastic Free pledge for July https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/take-the-challenge/ Petitions: Protect Antarctica https://only.one/act/antarctica Call on NZ government to ban deep sea mining https://petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/oceans-stop-deep-sea-mining?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Oceans&fbclid=IwAR33k2gwV4koVyfku4kw8Q11G6ysFB4QML23E4JUR62gxsmZ3lHvy5ljZKY&source=popup Right to Repair Petition https://community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/make-it-our-right-to-repair   Terracycle & Warehouse Toy Recycle initiative https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/toy-recycle.html?utm_campaign=The%20Warehouse%20Toys&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=218286956&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--LecNsB9Zxk7nGs1sI-NDYwzHQJFV5ErZKfgTiHc-Z3sf5dTK7Ol6CQvg_OJBctC596oUHD2N3c1sFxqragODkSU2MFw&utm_content=218286956&utm_source=hs_email   Donate to bronze sculpture to commemorate the work of Robert Webb from the Whangarei Native Bird Recovery Centre https://boosted.org.nz/projects/moment-of-release?fbclid=IwAR0FJK4_i2m-Ad_01Y3jlQIvQbFVLVWM2sNIOAGVxfROaHsVRsI_3kAPUMY   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/  

Trav Bell also known as The Bucket List guy is on a mission to encourage 10 million people to fully engage in the game of life and live a regret free life by building a bucket list of things they aspire to do so they can ‘tick it before they kick it’ in order to enjoy life NOW and create a future beyond their wildest dreams.   If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165   Trav Bell – The Bucket List Guy https://www.thebucketlistguy.com/ Register to join the Bucket List Challenge https://www.buildyourbucketlist.com.au/register   Book Happier by Tal Ben Shahar https://www.bookdepository.com/Happier--Can-you-learn-to-be-Happy---UK-Paperback-/9780077123246 The 4 hour work week – Tim Ferriss https://www.bookdepository.com/4-Hour-Work-Week-Timothy-Ferriss/9780091929114?ref=grid-view&qid=1655333998834&sr=1-1 Trav's favourite quote: If it’s to be, it’s up to me – William Johnsen   Plastic Free pledge for July https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/take-the-challenge/ Sustainable Business Awards nomination: https://enter-the-sustainable-business-awards-2022.paperform.co/   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/

Nic Turner shares her story on how she shifted from encouraging consumerism to living a sustainable lifestyle that’s easy, feels more mainstream and gives you a heart felt sensation that you’re making an invaluable contribution to a healthier planet while invigorating your own life.   If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165   Mainstream Green - Nic Turner's website  https://www.mainstreamgreen.co.nz/ Nic's favourite book Drawdown: The Most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming - Paul Hawken https://www.bookdepository.com/Drawdown-Paul-Hawken/9780141988436?ref=pd_detail_1_sims_b_v2v_1 Nic's favourite quotes 'If not us, who? And if not now, when?' – Hillel, a Jewish Elder ‘Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good’ – Voltaire   The Universe Story – Thomas Berry https://www.bookdepository.com/Universe-Story-Brian-Swimme/9780062508355?ref=grid-view&qid=1655599680147&sr=1-1 Plastic Free pledge for July https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/take-the-challenge/     Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/

Sparked by an audacious dare and a curiosity to explore life beyond her comfort zone, Kaye Mueller took to ocean swimming like a duck to water and has now created a community of ocean swimming and yoga enthusiasts who support one another through the ebb and flow of life – collectively finding flow, fun, freedom and friendships far beyond anything they ever imagined.   If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165 Yogifish website https://yogifish.nz/ Wim Hoff https://www.wimhofmethod.com/ Favourite Quote by Anthony Hopkins “None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself as an after thought, eat the delicious food, walk in the sunshine, jump in the ocean, say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like a hidden treasure – be silly, be kind, be weird, there’s no time for anything else.” Andre Rieu plays Anthony Hopkins musical composition – ‘And the Waltz goes on’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57Fi19vcSI Mission Joy film: https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/missionjoy-sneakpreview Plastic Free pledge for July https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/take-the-challenge/ Petition to stop sending plastic from NZ https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/stop-sending-our-plastic-waste-to-developing-countries?utm_source=actionstation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast2552&source=actionstation&bucket=blast2552   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/

Glenn Edney shares his love, deep connection and knowledge of the ocean as a marine ecologist and how a life changing encounter with a humpback whale helped him embody the wisdom of the ocean, which he now uses to enthuse and educate people to appreciate the ocean as the heart of all of lifes processes.   If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165   Ocean Spirit – Glenn Edney’s website https://oceanspirit.org/ Glenn’s book - Revisioning our relationship with the living ocean https://oceanspirit.org/articles-publications/publications/ Jacque Cousteau https://www.cousteau.org/ Dr Sylvia Earle – Mission Blue https://mission-blue.org/ James Lovelock http://www.jameslovelock.org/ Glenn’s favourite quote: We ourselves may think that what we do is but a drop in the ocean, but  the ocean would be much less without that drop – Mother Teresa Sea shepherd ghost net campaign https://www.facebook.com/ghostnetcampaign/ Safer Seas Service app https://www.sas.org.uk/safer-seas-service/ Sustainable Coastlines resource page of podcasts on the ocean https://sustainablecoastlines.org/resources/ocean-podcasts-to-educate-and-inspire/?utm_source=Sustainable+Coastlines+Main+Database&utm_campaign=708e901617-May+2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9841f1a7d0-708e901617-96025625&mc_cid=708e901617&mc_eid=7a1922578a Article on microplastics intoxicating the land https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/26/microplastics-sewage-poison-land-britain-waterways-chemicals?CMP=share_btn_link Proposed Incinerator Consent Waipapa District Council - Consents officer: [email protected] Resource consents: [email protected]   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/  

Project Island Song is a charitable organisation restoring the natural eco system and reintroducing wildlife to the Eastern Bay of Islands known as Ipipiri. I talked to Richard Robbins about the nature of the work involved and what it takes to realise their long-term vision of a safe, self-sustaining environment filled with tweets, twitters, trills and whistles of native birdlife. If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165 Project Island Song website: https://www.projectislandsong.co.nz/   Ring of Bright Water – Gavin Maxwell https://www.bookdepository.com/Ring-Bright-Water-Trilogy-Gavin-Maxwell/9780140290493?ref=grid-view&qid=1653303981131&sr=1-1&status=welcome&   Petition to permanently ban exploration in Antarctica https://only.one/act/extraction   Petition to stop mining on conservation land in the Coromandel https://action.greens.org.nz/no_new_mines?fbclid=IwAR3RubqoEIX0X6bveAiLP4f0F-_8BjilZJmP_cOnRFE_MRWAKu8tNnlborE   Link to register to watch Mission: Joy to finding happiness in troubled times film for free https://www.facebook.com/events/692577328515783?ref=newsfeed   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/  

Tania McInnes talks about the grassroots initiative she’s leading called ‘Arohatia Te Taiao,’ which gives Northland communities the opportunity to share their aspirations, ideas and challenges about their beloved backyard. The collective wisdom will then be collated and form the foundation of a report that’ll be presented to Te Tai Tokerau leaders to use for future strategy and planning in the regions. If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165   Arohatia Te Taiao Website https://www.arohatiatetaiao.kiwi/ Arohatia Te Taiao Facebook https://www.facebook.com/arohatiatetaiao/?_rdr Survey results https://www.arohatiatetaiao.kiwi/_files/ugd/6e99a9_01e862f4074d45ed906db07fc12cd542.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3PwLPFyKuAv5f0KGqblqfaJXwggfpY9DriUmfGxtVFAH6dDreu6AZIfMA Conversations with God – Neale Donald Walsh  Compilation edition of all three books – can be book separately https://www.bookdepository.com/Complete-Conversations-with-God-Neale-Donald-Walsch/9780399153297?ref=pd_gw_1_pd_gateway_1_1 ‘The Erie Situation’ film https://www.theeriesituation.com/ Waterbear – amazing documentaries including ‘Human’ https://www.waterbear.com/watch Ban of toxic synthetic fertilisers Petition https://petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/agriculture-nitratelimits?source=cpc&utm_campaign=Agriculture&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=Facebook&utm_content=paid_promo&fbclid=IwAR0qU3sGVNSQJq-BLDGJNIL8rTraa_OU40NU2QAE0LHp4sjr2JCWPLRTN_M   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/

Gary Cook provides a fascinating insight into the world of plants and how they enrich our spiritual, emotional, mental and physical wellbeing. He extends Aristotle’s counsel to look deep into nature to find the answers – advising us to  ‘listen deeply to nature in order to hear the symphony of sounds that sustain harmony and health for people and the planet. Hear how his curiosity to explore the hidden realms enabled him to discover  the intangible secrets of the plant world that revealed the wisdom of the natural world and ways to build a rapport with nature. If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165   Gary’s Website https://www.secretland.co.nz/ Gary’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gary.cook.58 The Secret Life of Plants book - Peter Tompkins https://www.bookdepository.com/Secret-Life-Plants-Peter-Tompkins/9780060915872?ref=grid-view&qid=1652326496640&sr=1-1 Documentary: The Secret Life of Plants https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-secret-life-of-plants/ The Song of the Waitaha book https://waitaha.org/ Plant recording devices https://www.musicoftheplants.com/shop/ On Children – Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. Adopt a Penguin https://sanccob.co.za/adopt-a-penguin/ Petition to stop sand mining in NZ https://petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/oceans-ban-seabed-mining?fbclid=IwAR1dbWJEIUv0VuQuBftQj40qxHaxXEmCcycJBqLU1Df41eT0iPWF9AiE54U Petition to stop current and planned oil and gas exploration in Guyana https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/guyana_oil_42/?bSvUhmb&v=140265&cl=19378080737&_checksum=902f4536277ca5654e6b1308e1a84cd62bf12669386f27c3a9247a5362f21c27   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/  

Sarah Dwyer knows all about creating an environment that feeds the soul, heart, mind and body – and just how important it is to satiate the curious mind, enjoy the process of taking one day at a time and having fun with whatever brings you joy – a beautiful blend that help create a magical elixir to activate ways to restore and make the most of life.   If you want to discover more about my work visit my website on https://philippaross.com/ or email me on: [email protected] Join and comment in the Waste Not Want Not facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Waste-Not-Want-Not-108328284940165   Sarah Dwyers website: https://sarahdwyerperfume.co.nz/ Sarah McCartney – Patreon page for scent enthusiasts https://www.patreon.com/Scenthusiasm The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Tao-of-Pooh---The-Te-of-Piglet/9781405293778 Extract about enjoying the process from ‘The Tao of Pooh and the Ti of Piglet’ “What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?” “Well, said Pooh, what I like best …” – and then he had to stop and think because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. The honey doesn’t taste so good once it is being eaten: the goal doesn’t mean so much once it’s reached, the reward is not so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives we won’t have very much. But – if we add up the spaces between the rewards, we’ll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards and the spaces, then we’ll have everything – every minute of the time that we spent. What if we could enjoy it? It doesn’t mean that the goals we have don’t count. They do, mostly because they cause us to go through the process and it’s the process that makes us wise, happy or whatever. If we do things in the wrong sort of way, it makes us miserable, angry, confused and things like that. The goal has to be right for us and it has to be beneficial in order to ensure a beneficial process. But aside from that, it’s really the process that’s important. Enjoyment of the process is the secret that erases the myths of the Great Reward and saving time. What could we call that moment before we begin to eat the honey: Some would call it anticipation, but we think it’s more than that. We would call it awareness. It’s when we become happy and realise it - if only for an instant. By enjoying the process, we can stretch that awareness out so that it’s no longer only a moment, but covers the whole thing. Salmon farming petition https://only.one/act/salmon-campaign-bc NZ Sea Rise programme https://www.searise.nz/ The Connectivity Project A documentary series examining the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world. https://www.connectivityproject.com/ Watch film: https://filmsfortheplanet.com/connectivity-project-virtual-premiere/?mc_cid=bf9bd1831e&mc_eid=2afc0b5c98     https://filmsfortheplanet.com/connectivity-project-virtual-premiere/?mc_cid=bf9bd1831e&mc_eid=2afc0b5c98   Theme music ‘Joyful’ by TimTaj from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/timtaj-16489647/