This document profiles recipients of the Sustainable Business Network's Sustainability Champion Award. It provides brief descriptions of the sustainability work of 27 individuals and organizations. Their work promotes areas like green building, sustainable product design and marketing, environmental education, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and social and environmental advocacy. The awards recognize key people and teams who have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability in New Zealand.

1. SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPION
AWARD
Brought to you by the Sustainable Business Network:
Profiling key people or teams who have been “sustainability
superstars”.

2. Alex Reiche
Envirospec
EnviroSpec provides a verification
based specification portal for
architects and the green
consumer. This helps promote
truly preferred products and
avoids Greenwash.

3. Brigid Hardy
Brigid Hardy is founder and
director of B_E_E a company
developing, selling and
marketing smart green
household cleaning products
with world-leading eco
accreditation, internationally
acclaimed design and top
performance.
B_E_E Ltd.

4. Blockhouse Bay Intermediate School Envirokids
Colin Andrews and Tonya
Wyatt, with the help of the
Envirokids have
implemented worm farms,
vegetable gardens and
fruit trees in a developing
orchard. A recycling
process has been put in
place to reduce the amount
of rubbish going to land
fills.
Colin Andrews and Tonya Wyatt

5. Eco Design Advisor Network
A network of independent advisors providing robust, tailored advice on
sustainable design for new or existing homes, for homeowners,
designers, council staff, tradespeople, and suppliers.

6. Fabian Yukich
Villa Maria Estate Wines
Fabian is the champion for
sustainability at Villa Maria
instilling sustainability and
environmental responsibility to
the core of the company culture
and influencing the industry.

7. Geoff Henderson
Windflow Technology
Windflow Technology is a
manufacturer of wind
turbines for renewable
energy projects and has
been at the core of the
sustainability movement for
almost a decade.

8. Greg Hall
Kohu Road
Kohu Road crafts New
Zealand’s finest ice cream
from quality ingredients.
Greg has championed a
common sense approaches to
business and personal
sustainability throughout his
career. When founding Kohu
Road, Greg brought this ideals
with him and they have
become an integral part of the
company’s fabric.

9. Jeanette Fitzsimons
Green Party
Jeanette has been a
significant change
agent inspiring
sustainability action
from fellow MPs,
members of the public
and businesses as well
as winning support for
Green legislation.

10. Jerome Partington
Jasmax
Sustainability
Manager Jerome is
instrumental in
ensuring that Jasmax
and their clients
embrace
sustainability as a
paradigm shift in
behaviour rather than
a series of
incremental
changes.

11. Johann Bernhardt
Bernhardt Architecture Ltd
Bernhardt Architecture Ltd has
been established in 1998 as an
income-generating architectural
office focused on sustainable
residential design. It is
complemented by the not-for-
profit research and public
education work of the Building
Biology and Ecology Institute,
which was established in 1990.

12. John L Craig
John Craig has a long
history as a sustainability
advocate. Teaching as
Professor of Environmental
Management at Auckland
University. He Chaired The
Natural Step NZ and in this
capacity he worked with a
considerable number of
New Zealand companies to
assist them introduce
sustainable practices and
design.

13. Karen Warman
Resene Paints Ltd
One Resene factory can
consume more than 45
tons of raw materials (the
same weight as 90,000
blocks of butter) in one
day. We educate
ourselves and others on
the environmental
impacts of raw material
selection and proactively
purchase raw materials
with lower environmental
impacts.

14. URS New Zealand provides
engineering and environmental
expertise to people and
projects in communities. Kerry
Griffiths is the Principal
Sustainability Consultant -
Informally she is the companies
sustainability challenger and
conscience. Mark Drury CEO,
describes Kerry as “an
innovator, a leader, an educator
and a motivator”.
Kerry Griffiths
URS

15. Kevin Healy
EcoMatters Environment Trust
EcoMatters was formed in
2002 with the primary
purpose of supporting
environmental trusts located
in Waitakere City. In the last
2 years Kevin Healy has
facilitated the growth and
development of the
organisation from a local
resource to a regional one.
Staff and project numbers
have grown from 14
employees in July 2008 to 35
today

16. Maggie Lawton & Towards 2060 Team
Maggie Lawton brought
together a small core team
from within council with
further skills and expertise
from The Natural Step,
Otago Polytechnic,
Transition Towns New
Zealand, Enviroschools
and SBN to develop the
‘Towards 2060 community
engagement’

17. Megan Salole (Nee Hosking)
Intersect Trust
Megan had a vision
about 5 years ago –
people need ways to
connect to people in
more meaningful ways
around the converging
crises that our world
and communities are
facing. She teamed up
with several young
professionals and
established a charitable
trust called Intersect.

18. Michael Field
North Shore City Council
Corporate Sustainability
practitioner who has worked
with a number of large
companies on topics ranging
from designing and
implementing sustainability
programmes, developing
Carbon Inventories to
Sustainability Reporting
Frameworks and report
assurance. Most recently for
North Shore City Council as
Sustainability Manager.

19. Paul Chambers
Auckland Regional Council
Project Leader of
Sustainability at ARC Paul’s
role was to be cost effective
and fiscally responsible, while
delivering significant resource
efficiency and emissions
reductions outcomes – all this
at no cost to the ratepayer.
Paul is now the Sustainability
Leader for the new Auckland
Council.

20. Peter Neilson and Team
New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable
Development
A CEO-led non-profit business
organisation aimed at
mainstreaming sustainable
practice by influencing policy
and business. The Business
Council was established 10 years
ago by 23 chief executives.
Members believe business
cannot succeed in societies that
fail and have a role in
encouraging not only economic
growth but improving the
environment and society.

21. Peter Yealands
Yealands Estate Wines
Yealands Estate Wines is
New Zealand's premier
sustainable winegrower.
Led by legendary
entrepreneur Peter
Yealands, step by
innovative step, they are
creating award winning
wines and New Zealand's
first fully sustainable
carboNZero certified
winery.

22. Project Twin Streams Community
Coordinators
The Project Twin Streams
community coordinators are a
group of highly motivated
change agents. They are dogged
and determined - with a real
passion in their hearts to make a
difference. They can be difficult
to work with but that is only
because they have limited
tolerance for process. They
simply want to get on with
making a difference.

23. Prometheus Finance Limited
New Zealand’s leading
social finance provider;
offering savings accounts
to individuals and
organisations who want to
use their money to invest in
real environmental and
social change. Prometheus
is the only banking
organisation in New
Zealand with a mission to
lend exclusively to social
and environmental
initiatives.

24. Ray Skinner
Sustainability Matters
Ray Skinners is an advocate for
sustainability within accounting
and business services.

25. Shane Whittaker
Wellington Zoo Trust
Wellington Zoo has an
annual visitation of
over 183,000 people. It
is their goal to have all
Zoo visitors
empowered to take
environmental actions
to protect the
environment.

26. Steven Henry
Otago Polytechnic Centre for Sustainable Practice
Steve leads a team of
people in developing the
long term vision and
strategic framework for
sustainable practice
within Otago Polytech.

27. Adrienne and Gary Dalton
Te Whangai Trust Team
Te Whangai Trust is an
enterprise that trains,
up skills and advocates
for at risk members of
the community,
specifically at risk
youth.

28. James Samuel
Transition Towns Aotearoa NZ
James is an initiator of
Transition Towns
Aotearoa- a decentralised
grass roots response to
sustainability challenges
such as peak oil and
climate change.

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