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Monday, March 8th, 2010 by Admin
 WasteMinz CEO Marion Short Marion Short is the CEO of the Waste Management Institute of New Zealand (WasteMinz). WasteMinz are an incorporated not-for-profit organisation that seeks to bring all the different interest groups together to “enable the achievement of an environmentally and economically sustainable waste minimisation strategy for New Zealand.” You can read more about what they do here. Below are Marion’s answers to our Green Collar Job questions.
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
We do all the usual good things at home and also try to buy well – a sort of smart shopping philosophy: buy quality (and environmentally friendly products) so that they last longer and also items that have less packaging.
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
At WasteMINZ we live and breathe our environmental policy in everything we do. Plus I also try to work from home during peak travel times so I can be both more effective and minimise the time I spend driving my car and adding to Auckland’s traffic congestion. The time saving for me is slightly over an hour a day (unbelievable)!
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
I still believe there is a lack of understanding and action in regards to living in a more environmentally manner. This requires a significant attitude shift by individuals, communities and industry. We need to encourage people to make that change now and preserve our beautiful country and the value of New Zealand as a brand.
4. What makes you smile?
I smile and laugh alot – I guess I enjoy the little things and am an optimist by nature. I love taking my dog for a walk – he is always so thrilled. I love sitting down to a big family dinner – my husband is one of six boys and family is really important to us. I love the huge hugs from my boys who are both over 6 foot tall. And I love results – when you look around and you say – wow that is done – great job!
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
People throwing rubbish out of their cars, or just leaving it behind – what is up with that!
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
I love orange – I think because it is so bright and happy – you can’t feel miserable wearing orange.
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
My favourite place is with my family and closest friends, enjoying their company, great New Zealand food and a glass of fantastic New Zealand wine (either a chardonnay or a pinot noir). Hopefully it is a sunny day (I live in Auckland – so that doesn’t always happen) and we have a nice shady spot to sit and tell each other all our news.
8. What’s your connection to the Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust?
Sift are members of WasteMINZ and we share linkages in a network focused on great good outcomes!
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
My favourite and first teacher was my Dad and to this day he remains my favourite teacher. Growing up we had a saying ‘it can’t be that hard’ which was always said as we plunged into difficult and exciting projects and journeys. I think I was only 8 years old when Dad let me paint the VW combi van that he restored – so I always felt he had so much faith in my abilities to give something a go and not completely bugger it up. I hope I am teaching my children that lesson.
10. What do you want to leave behind?
I want to leave happy memories, I want to have made a difference in people’s lives and I want my children to grow up happy, healthy and strong contributors to a positive and more improved society/world.
11. What do you think the future will bring?
I believe that collaborative operating models are the way of the future. That in order to achieve the best results it requires multiple stakeholders working together on greater good (or at least common good) outcomes.
That in the future. closer attention and value will be placed on the importance of relationships, and that we will move away from having a short term focus to being focused on longer term sustainable strategic outcomes.
I want to have faith and believe that we will get it together and make the changes necessary for a sustainable world.
I want to believe that people will recognise that being environmentally sustainable is the only way, not just a green choice.
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
I admire many people for many different reasons. It is possible to admire someone for what they have achieved but not necessarily for who they are.
The group of people that I admire the most are the ones that make an effort to ‘pay it forward’. These people give something of themselves without expecting anything in return, in order to make a positive difference in the lives of the people around them.
A challenge – what can you do to ‘pay it forward’?
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
Sunny Auckland day – and I feel like everything is right in the world – but of course I haven’t hit the traffic yet!
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Coffee
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
Sit down and think about who are your stakeholders – then think of them in terms of high and low interest and high and low power.
Those that have both high interest and high power are really important to what you are trying to achieve. Likewise those with low interest but high power need to be actively managed and kept informed, otherwise they could be potential roadblocks.
Are you communicating with your stakeholders? How often and how? Are there other communication tools that you could use, or leverage off your stakeholders communications tools (remember we are all part of a big network – you just need to use it).
Are the relationships working? Could they work better?
Do you have a communications strategy?
Do you know what your key messages are and your key points of differentiation?
People are so often scared of communication – and for no real reason.
Communication is such a powerful tool. Reach out and start improving your communication with your stakeholders today.
That’s two challenges (pay it forward and improving your communication) – good luck.
Tags: environment, Green Collar Job, Marion Short, new zealand, sustainable future, waste, WasteMinz
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Admin
 One of our key contacts is Jane Parfitt from the Christchurch City Council. She is the General Manager, City Environment Group at the Christchurch City Council. Jane is responsible for the management of 300 staff, an operating budget of $154m and a capital budget of $120m.
Jane is responsible for such things as maintining the safety and quality of Christchurch City’s infrastructure services with a long-term sustainability view, maintaining our lovely parks and gardens, helping to ensure the Long Term Council Community plan is delivered and that there are organisation strategies, plans and structure to support it and the Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) on behalf of the City.
Here are Jane’s answers to our Green Collar Job Q&A:
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
Walk whenever I can, use a shopping basket instead of plastic bags and use solar heating.
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
I don’t print emails and try not to make any more ‘copies’ than needed
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
Christchurch – to get people to use public transport, cycle or walk.
NZ – how and where we general energy.
4. What makes you smile?
Freddy – my new grandson
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Channel surfing!
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
Yellow because it’s a happy colour
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
Christchurch of course! It’s a garden city by the sea, close to the mountains with an international airport which has great connections to the rest of the world.
8. What’s your connection to Sift?
Linda Norris
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
Miss Tait because she was an inspiring PE teacher who played music for us.
10. What do you want to leave behind?
A Scottish flavour for our family.
11. What do you think the future will bring?
This question is just too hard! – maybe pigs will fly
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
The Queen because she’s gracious, works hard and copes with a modern, independently minded extended family.
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
Our dogs are trying to get inside!
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Toast and avocado
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
Be yourself.
Tags: Christchurch City Council, environment, Green Collar Job, infrastructure, Jane Parfitt, waste
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by Admin
This week’s Green Collar Job Q&A is with Timaru District Council’s Senior Waste Management Officer Ruth Clarke. Ruth manages the waste contract for the Timaru District. It is a comprehensive contract covering kerbside collection, transfer station management, landfill, green waste processing and recycling processing. Ruth plans for waste minimisation activity and carries out all the administrative work associated with council. She also runs the waste exchange for Timaru and Waimate Districts.
Ruth says that her list of things to do is long and her days too short, but finds her job challenging, interesting and worthwhile.
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
We built an ecohouse of mudbricks with solar water heating, solar power, composting toilet with relatively small footprint. Most labour done by ourselves with help from 157 wwoofers and counting! (see www.earthwoodwaimate.blogspot.com)
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
We built the eco-house in Waimate and then I got the job in Timaru, so it is 100km commute but I carpool with two others. I walk to any jobs nearby or get my co-workers to pick up stuff I need if they are out and about. I duplex my printing.
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Canterbury/New Zealand?
Apathy-I just wonder if we are going to make the changes needed in time to make the difference for our children.
4. What makes you smile?
My girls
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
People idling ( it doesn’t happen so much here but very common in Japan. I once crossed the lane and turned my neighbour’s car off after it had been idling for 10 minutes. Another time friends and I turned off the key of a car just sitting idling in the street with nobody about- then skedaddled!
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
Orange/russet because I like autumn, especially maples in Japan.
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world?
Kyoto-I lived there for 4 years, the old places are so otherworldly, historic and Asian.
8. What’s your connection to Sift?
Collaborating on a project.
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
My German teacher, strict and scary, but somehow German was my favourite subject.
10. What do you want to leave behind?
Land and the adobe house to secure a living/lifestyle for the girls; the recognition that I have worked for a better end.
11. What do you think the future will bring?
Peak Oil, stronger communities, better use of technology, maybe a rude awakening…
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
I have a friend who left a business because she didn’t agree with the way they were heading ( more corporate) and started a business to pursue her own idealogy of business practice. I admire that she had the conviction to act on her beliefs.
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
The border collie is curled up, the steers are still eating (the one called “Stu” is getting fatter!). The pears and apple trees are loaded-bottling fruit on the agenda this weekend.
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Bacon and eggs.
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
Take one small step at a time –it is a journey.
Tags: Green Collar Job, sustainable living, Timaru District Council, waste, Waste Management, woofers
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Admin
 Plains FM Mornings' Ed Swift Ed Swift is the presenter and producter of Plains FM Mornings in Christchurch, one of the few local radio shows in Canterbury. Ed presents the SIFT sponsored Green Biz segment on Monday mornings when we talk about sustainable businesses in Canterbury.
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
One of the big things I do is bike and walk to wherever I need to get to, and if it’s not within walking distance, I’ll try to catch a bus! We also use the three bin system as much as possible (recycling, organics, etc.) and we use a push lawnmower on our little patch of grass (it’s hard work but it’s not using petrol and polluting the place).
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
We recycle as much paper as possible, making little note pads out of any scrap possible. Also basic things like turning off the lights in rooms I’m not using and turning off the computer and screen at night – it’s just common sense.
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
I think we’ve nailed the rubbish problem pretty well with the 3 bin system, but now we all need to look at the difference we can make at home and work.
4. What makes you smile?
Having a good laugh with mates, and seeing my 3 year old niece.
5. What is your bigget pet peeve?
Being trained as a journalist and having a mother who has exceptional grammar, I get peeved when people don’t get apostrophes correct, and also when people don’t know the difference between “affect” and “effect”. It seems weird but it just bugs me for some reason!
6. What id your favourite colour and why?
Red – not too sure why, I just always have! I could say something funny here like “red things always go faster!”
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
Sumner Beach, a great place to be at in the summer, sitting in the sand, swimming in the sea, and there are lots of good cafes around too!
8. What’s your connection to SIFT?
I present and produce Plains FM Mornings, where we have a weekly slot with SIFT on Monday at 9.10am looking at sustainability (shameless plug – tune in weekdays from 8am on 96.9FM or streaming live at plainsfm.org.nz!).
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
Dr Huffadine from King’s College in Auckland – wasn’t officially my teacher but he was my Housemaster and he taught us a lot at school, and was always up for a game of pool in lunchtime.
10. What do you want to leave behind?
As little waste as possible.
11. What do you think the future will bring?
Who knows – 2 years ago I would’ve never predicted I would be hosting my own radion show in Christchurch, so I’ve given up trying to predict the future!
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
My mum – she’s raised 4 children (of which I’m the youngest) while finding time to volunteer in the community, work as a part-time journalist in Auckland, and finish her BA with First Class Honours last year – now all she needs to do is start her PhD!
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
I see trees of green (but not red roses too), plus the redevelopment of Visions of Campus at CPIT.
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Nothing beats scambled eggs on toast, especially if a nice flatmate brings it to you in bed (hint hint).
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
Always have a positive outlook on life, and don’t forget to smile.
Tags: canterbury, community, Ed Swift, Green Biz, Green Collar Job post, Green Collar Jobs, Plains FM, waste
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Admin
 Catherine Gibson - SIFT's bookeeper This weeks Green Collar Job Q&A is with Catherine Gibson who assists SIFT in what it does by keeping the books and accounts in order. Thanks Catherine!
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
Recycle, recycle, recycle! Walk when I can and have a vegetable garden.
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
Recycle and bring lunch from home.
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
Pollution, waste and hazardous substances.
4. What makes you smile?
Puppies and babies.
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Arrogant drivers.
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
Purple – it’s rich, royal and wise.
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
South Bay, Kaikoura – my sanctuary.
8. What’s your connection to Sift?
I’m the keeper of the books.
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
Miss Thompson – she was pretty, kind & smart!
10. What do you want to leave behind?
Four awesome adult children impacting their world!
11. What do you think the future will bring?
Too much to put into a sentence.
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
Nelson Mandela – he had the faith to believe when it seemed hope was lost.
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
The moon is rising.
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Muesli, fruit and yoghurt.
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
Always be true to what you believe and know to be right.
Tags: accounting, garden, Green Collar Jobs, recycle, waste
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Admin
 SIFT Trustee Dixon McIvor SIFT Trustee Dixon McIvor is a long standing member of the recycling industry and the owner of a local commercial recycling operation Resource Recycling Technologies NZ Limited. Here are his answers to our Green Collar Jobs Q & A.
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
I sort out the rubbish better at home and recycle more.
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
Think before printing emails and other online correspondence.
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
Home Insulation.
4. What makes you smile?
My grandchildren.
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Supermarket plastic bags.
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
Blue (like the flag of Scotland)
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
Marlborough Sounds (you need to go there to understand why).
8. What is your connection to SIFT?
Board of Trustees member.
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
Mr Thorpe (Standard Four, Linwood Ave Primary School)
10. What do you want to leave behind?
Happy Children.
11. What do you think the future will bring?
More wars and more sadness.
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
John Key because he is a self-made man.
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
Nothing (it’s lunchtime).
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Meusli and fruit.
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
Learn to live and respect each other.
Tags: Dixon McIvor, Green Collar Jobs, recycling, resource, SIFT, SIFT Trustee, sustainable living, waste
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Admin
 City Councillor Sally Buck enjoying some Coolangata surf. Local City Councillor and Community Board member Sally Buck is this week’s Green Collar Job Q&A person. Sally has a strong focus on environmental issues such as waste minimisation, sustainable transport and green business as well as being a wonderful local artist.
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
I walk everywhere now because we live near the city. We have a vegetable garden and I compost our garden waste and organics at home. I have always been a great recycler. We only have one car and if I use it then I try to do several things in one trip. We installed solar water heating on our house. We try to eat fruits and vegetables in season.
2. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
WATER – quality and quantity.
3. What makes you smile?
This would take me all day to list all the things that make me smile. Maybe the question should be – what are the 20 things that make you smile in the first 30 minutes after you get out of bed.
4. What is your biggest pet peeve?
I don’t have any as I try and forget any annoyances that occur.
5. What is your favourite colour and why?
I am an artist in my spare time – I love all the colours but I like wearing red.
6. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
The place where I am at any given time. If you believe that certain places are great and others aren’t then it stops you enjoying the place where you are at the present time.
7. What do you want to leave behind?
A planet that people can live on.
8. What is your connection to SIFT?
I was on the Trust that set this organisation up.
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
Yes, I remember we had a wonderful teacher at Girl’s High in 1966 and she made history come alive for me.
10. What do you think the future will bring?
Major clean tech, changes which will lead to a low carbon economy.
11. Who is someone you really admire and why?
There are so many people I admire. Everyday I meet people who I admire and there is always something in everyone which is admirable.
12. What is your favourite breakfast?
Bananas on toast.
13. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
As organisations we should always be looking at how we operate and if the organisation is serving the needs of the people or just the needs of the organisation itself. I would like to think that you did an audit of what has been achieved by the organisation, how much diversion from landfill has been achieved and at what cost.
Tags: CCC, community, Green Business, Sally Buck, sustainability, waste
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Monday, December 21st, 2009 by Admin
 Nanda Poort-Rammers Twin Rivers Home Interiors
The last Green Collar Jobs Q&A for 2009 is with Interior Designer Nanda Poort-Rammers. Nanda runs interior design company Twin Rivers Home Interiors which has a focus on making quality, comfortable and beautiful living spaces that are sustainable and low impact on the environment. She is currently helping out SIFT CEO Linda Norris with a few new changes to her home.
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
I have a vegetable garden, a compost heap, try to be mindful with electricity use by turning off lights and computer when not in use, I am going to have double glazed windows installed in my home to save energy. I buy good quality products because I believe less rubbish will end up in the landfills. Good quality products will last longer.
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
I am an interior designer so very much aware of sustainability in and around the house. In my office I’ve used no toxic, water based lime paint that is an Environmental Choice Australia product and my office chair is made with strong eco friendly fabric and the base can be re-used again. I try to specify products that are eco friendly and sustainable for my clients.
3.What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
The rubbish that ends up in the landfills. The electricity use. New Zealand exists out of islands, the wind is always blowing, it is free and I can’t understand why we do not build wind farms to generate electricity and save energy?
4. What makes you smile?
My daughter, my husband, my work and to be able to do the things I love.
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Dishonest people.
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
I have several; Green because it is peacful and red because it is warm and cosy and they are opposites.
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why.
New Zealand, because I live here. The Dolomites in Italy because I always went there for tramping and skiing and Denmark because I used to go there on holidays with my parents when I was a child.
8. What is your connection to SIFT?
I am an Interior Designer and have my own company, Twin Rivers Home Interiors. I help Linda Norris with the renovation of her home. It is going to be beautiful.
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
Simon Green, he was the teacher of my daughter at Primary School. He is amazing; he gives children self confidence and the ability and drive to perform well at school and in life.
10. What do you want to leave behind?
That I have lived intensely and have made my dreams come true.
11. What do you think the future will bring?
We are going to build our own home with a view in the mountains; I will live there with my family and dogs and enjoy life.
12. Who is aomeone you really admire and why?
I am sorry, but myself. Because of everything I have achieved over the last couple of years since I have arrived in this country and have been able to become a New Zealand resident. And this was not an easy task.
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
My dogs sit underneath my window on the veranda, the sun shines, and I can see my garden and the foothills in the distance, I can hear the Nor’Wester. It is quite peaceful out here.
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
The darkest brown bread with Dutch cheese, yoghurt and tea.
15. What is the bset piece of advice you can give us?
Only do the things your heart is in and you really love!
Tags: eco design, Green Collar Jobs, interior design, Interiors, linda norris, low impact living, SIFT, sustainability, sustainable living, Twin Rivers Home Interiors
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 by Admin
 Felicity Price at Cadrona Skifield Felicity Price is also one of our PR experts from Carter Price Rennie. As well as being a leading PR expert in Christchurch she has twenty years experience as a journalist, columnist and writer, with her latest book Sandwich Short of a Picnic out now. Here are her answers to our Green Collar Jobs questions:
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
I’m not particularly exceptional – I try to minimise as much of my waste as possible and favour the green or yellow recycling bins, and I’ve certainly planted a lot of trees in my time. I’m a passionate gardener. And I drive a car that runs on a teaspoon of fuel, a little Smart Car.
Every summer, we go to Totaranui – with the kids and, until this year, with my 94 year old mother. This will be our first summer without her. Totaranui has no electricity, no hot water, and is a wonderful natural environment. When I want to write my novels on holiday, I plug my laptop into electricity powered by a small solar panel that catches the Totaranui sun. (This means if it’s cloudy for more than a day I can’t get any writing done, but Totaranui weather is rarely bad for more than a day).
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
I do a lot of running round to see clients and suppliers, and so the Smart Car is a great fuel saver. Plus we always try to find recycled paper, and sometimes solvent-free inks when appropriate, to print brochures and annual reports on.
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
Water. We need to find a way of sustainably harvesting the water out of Canterbury’s big rivers to make our land more productive. And our diary farmers have to follow the clean dairying models.
4. What makes you smile?
My kids. My crazy spaniel. Books. Movies. Plays. Girlfriends.
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Not enough time to enjoy the things that make me smile.
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
Blue. Not sure really, but probably because it’s the same colour as my eyes.
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
Totaranui, in the DOC camping ground by the golden sands and blue sea. I love it there.
8. What’s your connection to SIFT?
I help Linda and Olivia with getting their message across – communication strategies, media releases, media liaison.
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
My English teacher at Girls’ High., Miss Jones, was an inspiration. I’ve been writing stuff ever since!
10. What do you want to leave behind?
Two children who will be healthy and happy, and some good books that people will want to go on reading after I’ve gone.
11. What do you think the future will bring?
I’ll get out my crystal ball and let you know if it tells me anything.
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both of them for their stickability and persistence, against the odds. I’ve been there!
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
Sadly, grey skies and a howling easterly. I’ve always lived in Christchurch and I love the place, but that beastly easterly does get your down sometimes.
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Porridge! With sultanas and banana slices.
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
Set your goals and follow them with determination and passion and you will achieve what you want. This applies to anything, from communication strategies to life in general!
Tags: books, Carter Price Rennie, Felicity Price, Green Collar Jobs, journalist, PR, sustainable living, writing
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 by Admin
 hairyLemon's Stuart Woodhouse boating in the Marlborough Sounds Stuart Woodhouse is our account manager at Hairy Lemon, a Christchurch web and print media design company. Thanks Stuart for helping us to communicate our key messages via the web.
1. What do you do to live more sustainably (with a low impact) in your life?
Close the curtains.
2. How do you live more sustainably at work?
With the new recycling bins it’s far easier to recycle although I am probably not as good as I should be.
3. What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we need to deal with in Christchurch/New Zealand?
Urban sprawl around the hills, one of Christchurch’s true assets. It needs to be there for future generations.
4. What makes you smile?
Rollerbladers
5. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Bad coffee
6. What is your favourite colour and why?
Green, because it’s the sign of a healthy potato plant
7. Do you have a favourite place in the world? Describe why?
Spain, the best year of my misspent 20’s
8. What’s your connection to SIFT?
hairyLemon help design and build their website
9. Do you remember your favourite teacher and why they were your favourite?
Mr Murray (Geography) Because he made everything in life the most interesting thing in the world.
10. What do you want to leave behind?
The memory that I made people smile (cheesy but true)
11. What do you think the future will bring?
Increased environmental awareness and an iphone (the two don’t really go hand in hand but you have to be selfish every once and a while).
12. Who is someone you really admire and why?
John Howard Griffin (Author of Black Like Me). Someone who really challenged how I look at life.
13. What is happening outside your window right now?
I am guessing lots of cars of Riccarton Road but as I can’t see a window that would be just a wild stab in the dark.
14. What is your favourite breakfast?
Three weetbix with green milk. It used to be six but as I get older I am learning moderation.
15. What is the best piece of advice you can give us?
What others think of me is none of my business
Tags: Green Collar Job, Hairy Lemon, low impact life, SIFT, sustainable living, web design
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