1:10 Explainer: What are “nature credits” and why does NZ need them?
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This morning the Government announced it’s changing the law to prevent companies from being sued over climate change related harm caused by green house gases
We’ll get reaction to that news in a moment, but we also want to talk about nature credits, voluntary biodiversity credit schemes that could mean more investment in nature restoration.
Scott Burnett is the climate spokesperson for Forest and Bird and talks about both issues with Jesse.
1:15 The company creating tokens to help projects focused on native habitats
Dr David Hall
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David Hill is the co-founder and Executive Director at a startup called the Toha Network.
In October 2024 they launched an environmental restoration project in Tairāwhiti on the East Coast.
Landowners are paid to regenerate native forests and wetlands using a digital funding system based on tokens called MAHI.
He chats to Jesse.
1:20 How to make small business thrive rather than fail
Sarah Davis
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For the first time in almost 15 years there are more business deaths than births here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
And of those business failures, the vast majority are solo business operators.
We know a lot of you listening run your own businesses, so do let us know if this conversation resonates.
In a new research paper “Built on Assumptions” our next guest argues that with more support these businesses could be thriving instead of failing.
Sarah Davis from Sweet Spot business coaching talks to Jesse.
1:30 New ADHD research challenges current thinking on the condition
Dr. Sarah Watson is the Clinic Director and a registered Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist at Totally Psyched.
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A recently published study from West China Hospital and Monash University has the potential to upend our understanding of ADHD
For decades ADHD has been diagnosed by using behavior-based questionnaires to understand the symptoms, not the underlying brain activity.
The new study turned this on its head analysing over 1,000 brain scans from children and teenagers with ADHD
It’s challenging the idea that ADHD is just one condition.
Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist and founder of Totally Psyched, Dr Sarah Watson chats to Jesse.
1:45 RNZ Podcast: Thrift looks at investment
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This week in the RNZ Podcast Thrift, host Katy Gosset is looking at how to take your first steps on the investment ladder.
2:10 Mayoral Minutes: Gisborne’s Mayor Rehette Stolz
Gisborne Mayor and Local Government NZ president Rehette Stoltz.
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It’s time for Mayoral minutes, each week we speak with a local mayor about the challenges they’re facing how they’re working to solve them and what makes their community special.
Today we’re heading to the Gisborne District on the stunning east coast from where Mayor Rehette Stolz joins Jesse.
2:20 Book Critic: Three books about self-described losers
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Afternoons book critic Lisa Glass joins Jesse to share her thoughts on the following books:
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht
Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth
2:30 Music Feature: AudioCulture’s Country Music Collection
Audioculture’s ‘Country Music Collection’ archives the history of the genre in New Zealand.
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Time for our weekly music feature, and this week we’re taking a look at a brand-new collection from AudioCulture.
If you’re not familiar, AudioCulture is a digital library of New Zealand music history.
Its’ online “Collections” are a treasure-trove – it’s done The Maori Music Collection, The Pacific Music Collection, and now it’s dropped its’ Country Music Collection!
Most of the research and reporting was done by Napier-born musician Glen Moffatt who chats to Jesse.
Here is a link to the collection
3:10 Tech Tuesday with Tim Batt
Pacific Island countries are ripe for cyber-attacks.
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Tim Batt is with me Jesse to talk about what’s been happening in the world of technology; today he’ll bring us up to speed on a local data breach and why Amazon is abandoning plans for a local data centre.
3:25 You’re the Judge: Do bridesmaids have to wear what the bride says?
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Every Tuesday we put a pickle to you, our audience, and get your help solving it.
This week we’re looking at a quandary involving a bride, bridesmaid and a dress.
Let us know your thoughts on 2101 or jesse@rnz.co.nz
3:30 Feature Opinion: Why Australia’s ban on social media won’t work
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Australia’s ban on social media for anyone under 16 isn’t working. It’s not even close says world renowned behavioral economist and Harvard Law School professor Dr Cass Sunstein. He’s one of the authors of a new working paper that argues compliance has to reach a tipping point for the ban to work, a point when not going on TikTok and Instagram and all the other apps is the new normal and that’s not happening. Dr Sunstein is also part of a team of researchers examining the link between social media and wellbeing in the World Happiness Report. Just like Australian teenagers, many of us use social media even though we know it’s not good for us, because everyone else is. He explains what he calls the “product trap”, the way certain platforms are designed to pull us in, and we let them, even when we suspect we’d be happier without them.
3:50 The pre-Panel: A slice of sense and nonsense
The show within a show, the little show that could, call it what you will, Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan will attempt to make you smile as they preview tonight’s edition of The Panel
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