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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at BE.

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Speaker 2: I've to catch up with our sustainability commentator Kate Hall

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Speaker 2: is with us this morning looking at her top tips

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Speaker 2: for a sustainable Mother's Day. Yielder Kate, good morning. It's

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Speaker 2: always a bit tricky. I you know, my well mom

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Speaker 2: says she never wants us to spend crazy amounts of

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Speaker 2: money on her. Everyone sees that, don't they. But nah,

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Speaker 2: I think I think mum's so legit about that. But

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Speaker 2: actually coming up with a few sustainable options for Mother's

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Speaker 2: Day is you know, a nice way to mark the day,

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Speaker 2: show mum you love her, remember her on a special day.

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Speaker 2: But also you know, do what's maybe right by your

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Speaker 2: bank account and right by the earth. And you've got

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Speaker 2: a few little top tips for us this morning, So

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Speaker 2: let's start off with your eco friendly gifts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so if you're I'm all about experiences and time

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Speaker 3: because I think actually mums do actually mean it. You

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Speaker 3: know when they say don't spend money because time is

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Speaker 3: usually the most scarce resource for us. You know, they

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Speaker 3: literally they miss us. They want to spend time and

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Speaker 3: do something together rather than be thrown another scented candle.

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Speaker 3: But if your mum is someone who does like things,

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Speaker 3: well maybe there's something that she particularly needs. Three of

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Speaker 3: my kind of favorite sustainable gifts that I've seen around

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Speaker 3: the place. There's washbags made from will here in New

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Speaker 3: Zealand by Honest Wolf, and you get them even embroidered

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Speaker 3: with like your mum's names, and that's pretty, that's pretty lovely.

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Speaker 3: Nuan socks, so they're possum socks. They're so my favorite

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Speaker 3: during winter. I know that my mum loves a cozy

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Speaker 3: pair of socks. And a loyal workshop leather wallets made

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Speaker 3: by women who are taken out of the sex trafficking

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Speaker 3: district in India and have great jobs making all these

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Speaker 3: wonderful leather goods. So those are three kind of main

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Speaker 3: items that for me. When I was looking around, I

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Speaker 3: was like, yep, these are these are handy, they're useful,

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Speaker 3: they're personable, they're made sustainably. But I do have a

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Speaker 3: directory ethically kate dot com where there's like all of

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Speaker 3: these different I was just looking through it this morning,

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Speaker 3: inspiring myself with gifts. Yeah to think, yeah, like what

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Speaker 3: these are all the sustainable brands in New Zealand that

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Speaker 3: most of them have like different Mother's Day kind of

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Speaker 3: sales and stuff too. So if you if you're going

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Speaker 3: for a physical gift, think about those types of things

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Speaker 3: and then don't you don't need to wrap them or

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Speaker 3: get wrapping paper anything. Just use there's so many beautiful

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Speaker 3: scarfs that sick and hand shops, or if you have kids,

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Speaker 3: use their old kind of paintings that they bring home

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Speaker 3: from from kindy or whatever, or get them to you know,

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Speaker 3: scribble on a scrap piece of paper and it can

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Speaker 3: look pretty beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm always a fan of you know, specially I mean,

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Speaker 2: my mum is such a keen gardener. But like flowers

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Speaker 2: or plants are quite quite a nice little option too, totally.

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Speaker 3: And I love that you say like plants because you know,

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Speaker 3: flowers and a bundle that's really lovely, and especially if

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Speaker 3: you get it from somewhere it's locally grown. But that's

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Speaker 3: also not you know, it's kind of not gonna last

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Speaker 3: super long, so yeah, can I know, And a pop

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Speaker 3: punk can actually sometimes be cheaper, you know, like if

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Speaker 3: you went to a local kind of nursery and got

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Speaker 3: a plant and I just added something special to it,

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Speaker 3: like an little woven thing around the path ure just

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Speaker 3: just something that's probably actually cheaper than you know, like

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Speaker 3: an eighty dollars bunch of flowers that may last seven days.

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Speaker 3: So that's yeah, that's a great one too. But like

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Speaker 3: for me, my mum, she really is about the outdoors

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Speaker 3: and would love to be outside and doing stuff with

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Speaker 3: her family. So that's more about like, hey mom, for

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Speaker 3: Mother's Day, we'll take you on a bushwalk, make a picnic.

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe that's where you spend your money is

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Speaker 3: on like the lovely food, and you're putting time and

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Speaker 3: thought into it. And I think these days especially, you know,

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Speaker 3: people would just throw money at it, buy a nice

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Speaker 3: card and like move on. But actually mothers, there's such

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Speaker 3: a and mother figures in our lives. Yeah, they deserve

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Speaker 3: to just if you can prioritize them and prioritize your time,

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Speaker 3: that can mean just the entire world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, like you say, like it's an experience, you're

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Speaker 2: kind of creating a memory there as well, which as

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Speaker 2: always so special. If you are getting together and doing

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Speaker 2: the kind of bushwalking picnic thing you would obviously want

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Speaker 2: us to be using, you know, not avoiding plastic pates

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Speaker 2: and heaps of rubbish and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: Totally. Yeah, it would be ironic if you were to

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Speaker 3: sit out in a bush we'll on a picnic and

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Speaker 3: then have a whole lot of rubbish around you have

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Speaker 3: to take home, so it is easier and also lighter

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Speaker 3: if you are walking through a bush to Yeah, take

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Speaker 3: some simple containers reuse. If you're reusing a reasonable plastic bags,

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Speaker 3: a plot bag, those can be really great. They're really

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Speaker 3: light and you can wash them use them again. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: think about what you're taking all your items, and reasonable nepkins,

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Speaker 3: which I just love. I think they're so much more

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Speaker 3: classy as well. That's what I'll be doing for my

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Speaker 3: mum is having a brunch and yeah, reasal nepkins, just

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Speaker 3: normal plates and all sorts of things. But if you

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Speaker 3: are having a bigger gathering I know some people do

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Speaker 3: for Mother's Day, get together with a whole bunch of family,

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Speaker 3: then yeah, think about that as well. I you know,

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Speaker 3: you can get knives and forks and plates and all

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Speaker 3: sorts for you know, fifty cents at up shops if

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Speaker 3: you do need to cater for a bigger range of people,

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Speaker 3: and that can actually save your money in the long

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Speaker 3: term too. If you just have that stash of things,

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Speaker 3: you're not having to buy disposals all the time for

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Speaker 3: big events.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. And like if you are seeing

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Speaker 2: mama car even just doing something digitally or seeing like

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Speaker 2: a video message or something can be quite nicely totally. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love it when you know people maybe overseas, right

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Speaker 3: or maybe the mums in another country and actually, yeah,

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Speaker 3: creating and thinking about a clever video to put together,

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Speaker 3: maybe with your siblings or like the rest of your family.

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Speaker 3: That could be Yeah, such a life and something that

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Speaker 3: she can keep and keep looking at, rather than a

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Speaker 3: card that just says something like happy Mother's Day and

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Speaker 3: then move on. It can yeah, it can show again,

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Speaker 3: it's showing that time and thought and I think yes,

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Speaker 3: especially these days people are just running around so kind

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Speaker 3: of busy that that really, yeah, shows how much you

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Speaker 3: love your mum.

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Speaker 2: Ah so good. Hey, thank you very much, Kay, appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: We'll put all of your tips there up on the

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Speaker 2: news talks ZB website so people who are scrambling for

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Speaker 2: Mother's Day next weekend can get themselves sorted. And of

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Speaker 2: course you can find Kate on the social media platforms

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Speaker 2: just look up ethically, Kate, and you'll be able to

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Speaker 2: track her down for

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