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Andy is one of New Zealand’s leading writers on sustainability, business innovation and global well-being. His work is regularly published with the New Zealand Herald, Good, Idealog, HOME New Zealand, The Natural Parent and more.

fundraising communication design and field reporting

Andy’s specialist copywriting and communications assistance and training has helped raise millions for WWF, Oxfam, and a number of other national and international not-for-profit organisations.

commercial communication design

Andy supports the innovations of select clients with a commitment to well-being and global sustainability. He has helped improve the profile and effectiveness of a wide range of forward-thinking businesses and organisations, including NZAid, Better by Design, and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.

Andy is based in Auckland, New Zealand, but is available for select projects and commissions worldwide.

The accompanying photography is also by Andy Kenworthy. 

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Cleaning up on dirty data

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First published in Good magazine

The online world somehow always looks clean and finished, like it exists in some kind of Neverland that is conjured into existence, untroubled by such old-world concerns as pollution and energy depletion.

But of course this is not the case. Greenpeace estimates the huge barns full of computer servers that make our Gmail accounts ping and let us flog jumpers to each other on TradeMe now suck in up to two percent of the world’s entire energy demand. And it’s growing at a rate of 12 percent a year.

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