Learn about sustainability in business and connect with others at the following events. We also offer a selection of training courses.
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Online
September Sustainability Seminar - Greenwashing
September Sustainability Seminar - Greenwashing
The September sustainability seminar is all about being authentic in your marketing. Research shows people want to buy from companies treating nature and people well.
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Network
New Investor Meet up - August
New Investor Meet up - August
The Sustainable Business Network would like to welcome our new investors to the network and invite you to a digital meet-up.
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Workshop Series
Part 2: Tell your business’ sustainability story
Part 2: Tell your business’ sustainability story
Learn how to communicate sustainability effectively.
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Webinar
Empowering employees on your sustainability journey
Empowering employees on your sustainability journey
This webinar will explore the importance of empowering employees to take ownership and responsibility for community impact.
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Climate
Climate+ Stories from the Field
Climate+ Stories from the Field
This event will include information and updates from Textile Exchange, and provides an opportunity to meet one-on-one with global and local Textile Exchange team members and hear stories from textile farmers.
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New beginnings: A showcase of sustainable food and beverage
New beginnings: A showcase of sustainable food and beverage
The Sustainable Food Co and Aotea Brewing are co-hosting an event for people to come and sample their ranges of sustainable food and beverages and learn more about how they work.
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Webinar
Hot Take: Why is no one talking about their chemical footprint?
Hot Take: Why is no one talking about their chemical footprint?
It’s time for our Sustainable Business Network whānau to come together for our August Hot Take conversation - 'Why is no one talking about their chemical footprint?'
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Network
Sustainable Business Network’s Annual General Meeting
Sustainable Business Network’s Annual General Meeting
Join us for The Sustainable Business Network’s Annual General Meeting to help us celebrate an impactful year.
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Webinar
Hot Take: Is ‘sustainable’ packaging getting a bad rap?
Hot Take: Is ‘sustainable’ packaging getting a bad rap?
It’s time for our Sustainable Business Network whānau to come together for our July Hot Take conversation - Is ‘sustainable’ packaging getting a bad rap?
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Network
The Now Crowd: Network & Connect
The Now Crowd: Network & Connect
It’s been a while! Join us for the next The Now Crowd event in-person for a good old-fashioned get together.
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Online
NZGBC: Leading the shift towards a circular economy
NZGBC: Leading the shift towards a circular economy
Join Mikayla Plaw, Profile Group’s Executive Director and GM of Organisational Development and Sustainability, and Samantha Walmsley-Bartlett, Circularity’s Environmental Strategist to hear about Profile Group’s journey in using the CTI tool, rethinking their entire supply chain and operations, and specifically how they are designing out waste and pollution.
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Network
Launch: 2022 Sustainable Business Awards
Launch: 2022 Sustainable Business Awards
Join SBN, along with NZI and our category sponsors, to launch the 2022 Sustainable Business Awards. This is the 20th year of the Awards and we’re going to make them extra special!
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Webinar
Carbon Emissions Calculator - New Business Tool
Carbon Emissions Calculator - New Business Tool
Join the online launch of the new Carbon Emissions Calculator for business
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Mindful Money Awards 2022
Mindful Money Awards 2022
The Awards honour the funds and the individuals who are leading the movement to make responsible investing the new normal, and impact investing the progressive frontier.
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Conference
E Tipu: The Boma Agri Summit
E Tipu: The Boma Agri Summit
E Tipu: The Boma Agri Summit is set to catalyse the future in 2022. Join Aotearoa’s biggest food and fibre sector summit.
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Workshop
Climate Action Workshop for Business - Whakatāne
Climate Action Workshop for Business - Whakatāne
In this FREE workshop Sustainable Business Network’s climate experts will explain how your business can reduce its carbon footprint and take other actions on climate change.
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Workshop
Climate Action Workshop for Business - Rotorua
Climate Action Workshop for Business - Rotorua
In this FREE workshop Sustainable Business Network’s climate experts will explain how your business can reduce its carbon footprint and take other actions on climate change.
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Te Whare Taiao Activation
Te Whare Taiao Activation
Te Pu-A-Nga Maara is running an event at the Wiri Playground to activate the new Whare Taiao to teach people how they look after the Puhinui stream.
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Webinar
Hot Take: Why blue carbon should be on your radar
Hot Take: Why blue carbon should be on your radar
It’s time for our Sustainable Business Network whānau to come together for our first Hot Take conversation - 'Why blue carbon should be on your radar'.
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Webinar
Sustainable packaging metrics in a global supply chain with Zespri
Sustainable packaging metrics in a global supply chain with Zespri
In this webinar, Zespri’s Sustainable Packaging Lead Lewis Patterson shares how the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit measures and uses packaging metrics within the global supply chain
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Network
New Investor Meet-Up - Online
New Investor Meet-Up - Online
The Sustainable Business Network would like to welcome our new investors to the network and invite you to a digital meet-up.
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Webinar
Did the budget deliver?
Did the budget deliver?
Post-Budget panel discussion examining the highlights and lowlights of this year’s Budget, one of Parliament’s key set piece events.
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Webinar
Becoming Cradle to Cradle Certified® with Eagle Lighting
Becoming Cradle to Cradle Certified® with Eagle Lighting
Trans-Tasman manufacturer Eagle Lighting explain how they gained Cradle to Cradle® Certification for one of their products and how this is adding value to their business.
Past event recordings
Missed some of our past events? Watch recordings of some of our recent events.