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Jonathan Watts NZ tour: Let's learn from China
13 December 2011 - What does a commercial cleaning company have to do with China's environment? Paramount Services managing director Galvin Bartlett wants Kiwis to learn the environmental lessons from China's extraordinary development so is bringing journalist and author Jonathan Watts to New Zealand for a speaking tour in early 2012.
Watts is Asia environment correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. His book When a Billion Chinese Jump takes readers on a journey through an environment in China which is being damaged as a result of rapidly increasing consumerism and extraordinary technological advancement.
Watts will give public evening lectures in Auckland (Thursday 29 March), Taupo (Friday 30 March), Wellington (Monday 2 April) and Christchurch (Wednesday 4 April). He will also be the keynote speaker at the Sustainable Business Network one day conference in Auckland on Thursday 29 March. Bookings for public lectures can be made at EventFinder.co.nz (from Monday 19 December) and proceeds will be given to the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand.
Bartlett says Paramount Services is bringing Watts to New Zealand because his story about China's environmental degradation is a cautionary tale for New Zealanders. As a commercial cleaning company, Paramount Services is at the sharp end of waste disposal from 1,240 clients throughout New Zealand including 320 bank branches plus offices, schools, government departments, cinemas and shops.
Paramount Services has set a goal of "zero waste to landfill" from the sites it cleans. This goal is one of a broad set of initiatives to make cleaning more environmentally friendly – including daytime cleaning to reduce after-hours power usage, and Paramount Services developing its own Paramount Care range of environmentally safe cleaning products.
Event dates and booking information at EventFinder.co.nz
Auckland - Thursday 29 March 2012 - book here
Taupo - Friday 30 March 2012 - book here
Wellington - Monday 2 April 2012 - book here
Christchurch - Wednesday 4 April 2012 - book here
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