2012 NZI National Sustainable Business Network Awards - full list of winners, commendations, finalists and sponsors

30 November 2012

SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPION AWARD

(Sponsored by Element magazine)

Winner:

Chris Morrison, Director of All Good Organics, founder of Phoenix Organics, co-owner of Nice Blocks, Founding Chair of the Sustainable Business Network, and Director of Clean Planet Ltd and Kokako

Runners Up:

  • Barbara Cuthbert, Chair of Cycle Action Auckland
  • Judith Holtebrinck, Coordinator of Mt Eden Village People and Centre Manager, Mt Eden Village Centre
  • Ross Godkin, Manufacturing Manager, Road Science (Downer NZ)

Other finalists:

  • Damon Birchfield – Senior Strategic Advisor, Auckland Council
  • Emma Hope – Sustainable Transport Coordinator, Wellington City Council
  • Gail Dickson – Senior Sustainability Manager, Sovereign Insurance
  • Jo Wills – Executive Officer for Community Energy Network & Co-founder of Social Ecology
  • Nicola Morrison – Environmental Coordinator, Fletcher Building Roof Tile Group
  • Shay Brazier & Jo Woods – Zero Energy House
  • Steve Ellingford – Operations Manager, MP Capital (Bayfair Shopping Centre)
  • William van Ausdal – Project Coordinator, Sustainability & Economic Development, Palmerston North City Council

 

SOCIAL INNOVATION AWARD

(Sponsored by NZ Post)

Winner:

Te Whangai Trust - a native plant nursery developing the skills of unemployed people

Commendation:

Gap Filler - a creative urban regeneration initiative that temporarily activates vacant sites in Christchurch with creative projects for community benefit

Runners Up:

  • Conscious Consumers - accredits hospitality businesses demonstrating sustainable practices, and connects them to consumers that care
  • Garden to Table - facilitates a unique curriculum linked programme in New Zealand schools where children learn to grow, harvest, prepare and share food
  • Generation Zero - movement of young New Zealanders working together to solve the climate crisis and secure a zero carbon Aotearoa by 2050
  • Inspiring Stories Trust - uses the power of story telling in events and workshops for a better world

 

Other finalists:

  • Bucky box – building software to enable local food distribution
  • Chalkle –a community education platform, using the Internet to connect teachers and learners together
  • Curative – design and communication agency aiming to break communication barriers, engage communities and help influence and progress social change
  • Donate Your Desktop – a computer application that allows people to make a daily donation to charity at no cost to themselves
  • Forgotten World Adventure – unique recycled rail carts on a disused KiwiRail line; the low impact tourism experience is closely linked to local communities
  • Plant Medicine - encourages community health  through nutritional and medicinal products using local, hand harvested, organically grown and sourced plants and ingredients
  • Sovereign - new community programme, focuses on taking action to ensure the future health and wellbeing of New Zealand communities
  • The Kitchen - creating a co-working space for social entrepreneurs, charities and those working for more than profit –  for common good
  • Vodafone – for DriveSafe, a free service on mobile phones that helps people resist the urge to respond to text messages
  • Volunteer Army - promotes service by creating opportunities for engagement in the community
  • Waiheke Local - a comprehensive magazine-styled website for Waiheke Island that supports local businesses and community groups

 

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND INNOVATION AWARD

(Sponsored by AUT University)

Winner:

Return to Sender - for its biodegradable funeral urns

Commendation:

Biobrew – for the microbial tools it produces for the agriculture sector

Runners Up:

  • Fulton Hogan - for its unique new biofuel blending pump, developed in New Zealand
  • Paperkut – for its paperless receipts

Other finalists:

  • HydroHub – for its portable water filtration/dispensing unit
  • Loves Creations – for its natural wooden high chairs and swings
  • Love Notes – for stationery from your waste basket
  • Sharp Tudhope Lawyers – for the Bay of Plenty’s first GreenStar 4 Star building
  • Showerdome – for its shower dome to prevent steam forming in the bathroom and saving energy
  • Stone Arrow Jewellery – for recycled glass jewellery University of Waikato – for bio-based polymers from bloodmeal
  • Vodafone– for its handset eco-rating scheme that indicates the environmental and social impact of mobile phones
  • Zero Energy House – that generates as much energy as its inhabitants consume

 

EMERGING SMALL BUSINESS AWARD

Winner:

Raw Essentials - locally-sourced raw pet food using pest species

Finalist:

Stone Arrow Jewellery – sustainable jewellery made using natural materials

 

EMERGING MEDIUM BUSINESS AWARD

Winner:

Colmar Brunton - market research company

Finalist:

Apex General Ltd  - insurance brokerage and risk advisor

 

EMERGING LARGE & CORPORATE BUSINESS AWARD

(sponsored by EECA Business)

Winner:

Trevelyan Pack and Cool Ltd - packing and cool storage for kiwifruit and avocados

Finalist:

Novotel Auckland Airport – hotel at Auckland Airport, part of the Accor Group

 

TRAILBLAZER NOT FOR PROFIT AWARD

(Sponsored by Convergence Communications)

Winner:

Unitec Institute of Technology 

Finalists:

Palmerston North City Council

Whakatane District Council

 

TRAILBLAZER SMALL BUSINESS AWARD

Winner:

Kokako - organic coffee company

Commendation:

Kaimira Estate Wines – sustainable winery from Nelson

Finalist:

Cheeky Rooster – PR and communications consultancy based in Whakatane

 

TRAILBLAZER MEDIUM BUSINESS AWARD

(Sponsored by University of Waikato Management School)

Winner:

James & Wells Intellectual Property - intellectual property law firm

Commendation:

Sharp Tudhope – law firm from Tauranga

 

TRAILBLAZER LARGE & CORPORATE AWARD

(sponsored by Ricoh)

Winner:

Villa Maria Estate - wine industry

Commendation:

Meridian Energy – 100% renewable energy

Finalist:

SCA Hygiene – manufactures tissues and personal care hygiene products

 

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

(Sponsored by Vodafone)

Winner:

Raw Essentials

Finalists:

  • Kaimira Estate Wines
  • Kokako
  • Sharp Tudhope Lawyers
  • Stone Arrow Jewellery

 

2012 SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS OF THE YEAR

(sponsored by NZI)

Winner:

Villa Maria Estate

Finalists (winners of trailblazer awards):

Kokako

James & Wells Intellectual Property