Landcare Research names new board chairman

Prominent environmental businessman Rob Fenwick has been appointed the new board chairman of Landcare Research, a Crown Research Institute.

Mr Fenwick co-founded Living Earth, a company best known for converting biological waste into high quality compost. The company has played a lead role in a number of national waste reduction initiatives, and is a founding member of the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Mr Fenwick is a member of the ministerial task force for the national waste strategy, and a trustee of WWF and the Motutapu Island National Trust. He is also deputy chairman of TVNZ and chairman of the Antarctic Heritage Trust. For ten years he was chairman of Ngâti Whatua’s successful broadcasting company Mai FM, and was a founder of the bottled water business, NZ Natural.

Mr Fenwick was named one of North & South magazine’s New Zealanders of the Year in 2001, in recognition of his diverse achievements and his adherence to environmental principles. Mr Fenwick replaces Ian Donald, who has retired.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

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