Unconventional Gold.
Waste-to-value, bioenergy and the carbon economy in Aotearoa — field notes from the living biorefinery.
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Two Hundred People, One Room, and a Region Deciding What It Wants to Be
Two hundred people, one room, and a region working out what comes next.
Read the piece →Nobody in That Room Was Short of Money. So Why Isn't Anything Getting Built?
The money was in the room. The projects still aren’t getting built.
Read the piece →We Swapped One Fuel for a Whole Toolbox, and That's Why This Feels So Hard
One fuel became a whole toolbox. That is why this feels so hard.
Read the piece →Scaling from the edge: how Kiwi climate companies actually get into Europe
A textile-waste founder, a scale-up advisor, an ambassador and a returning expat sat down to answer one question — what does it really take to go global? The answers were specific, and occasionally surprising.
Read the piece →The $30 billion circle: inside the bioeconomy breakout
"The bioeconomy isn't one product — it's a circle." A room full of foresters, scientists and founders spent an hour arguing about why New Zealand keeps leaving that circle on the table.
Read the piece →From ambition to adoption: what five parties actually said about climate tech
The summit closed with a cross-party political forum — and for once it wasn't platitudes. Five parties argued, in specifics, about R&D, the "missing middle," procurement, an enduring energy strategy and the bioeconomy. Here is the fullest account of who said what.
Read the piece →The Perfect Storm: Why New Zealand's Energy, Waste, and Water Crises All Point to Anaerobic Digestion
Three major forces have converged in the first half of 2026 — and they all validate the BRRP model simultaneously.
Read the piece →The Pacific’s Energy and Waste Future Is Shifting
What we heard at the MFAT Pacific Update 2026 — and why it matters for the work we do.
Read the piece →We're in the Global Top 100
Selected for the 2026 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge.
Read the piece →Why New Zealand Should Be Making Its Own Biofuels
Not Importing Them
Read the piece →Technologies that can save the world?
Did you poo today?
Read the piece →People in the centre of work
To be a regenerative company, we must have a redefined well-being culture. Our progressive health and well-being policy is built on the foundation of holistic care, promoting physical, mental, and emo...
Read the piece →Under One Roof: The Aurora Climate Tech Summit 2026
Why New Zealand's bioeconomy is a deployment problem — not a technology problem.
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