EDGE #347: New Zealand Wool Used to Redefine Surfboards + 24 stories

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 23 January 2019 | #347 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington), Carla Hofler, Henrike Forschler (Auckland). See all stories and a 14,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2018 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Business | Guardian News 17 January 2019 New Zealand Wool Used to Redefine Surfboards New Zealand wool will replace fibreglass in revolutionary new surfboards that will hit the Australian market next year, under the Firewire Surfboards brand ‘Woolight’. The redefined art of making surfboards with the use of wool over fibreglass from start… Business | West Australian (The) 23 January 2019 Mining Boss Chris Ellison Set to Dig Deep in 2019 After a year of frenetic deal-making, 2019 is shaping up as a year of execution for Mineral Resources boss, New Zealand-born Chris Ellison. The West Australiane… Business | Stuff 20 January 2019 CoAqua Snapped Up by Gywneth Paltrow’s Goop Store New Zealand coconut water brand, CoAqua has caught the eye of actor Gwyneth Paltrow and her team at Goop, her international “lifestyle” store.The store, which offers… Business | The SpinOff 20 January 2019 Albert Alferink’s Waikato Cheese Wooing the World Since 1981, a pioneering Dutch immigrant has been developing a distinctive New Zealand style of cheese, and now the world is starting to sit up and take notice. But for… Community/General | Guardian (The) 22 January 2019 What Is the Sea Telling Us about Whale Strandings? Whale whisperer Hori Parata was just seven years old when he attended his first mass stranding, a beaching of porpoises in Northland, their cries screeching through… Nature | Canada Free Press 20 January 2019 Endangered Penguins Kitted Out in Onesies Ahead of Penguin Awareness Day on 20 January, a story has been doing the rounds about The Wildlife Hospital in Dunedin. They are using baby onesies to aid in the recuperation of endangered yellow-eyed penguins… Nature | Guardian (The) 21 January 2019 Hopes Webcam Can save Endangered Albatross Millions of amateur naturalists around the world have been tuning in to the secret lives of albatrosses as Department of Conversation (DOC) rangers on the Otago… New Zealand | Guardian (The) 18 January 2019 Gisborne on 2019 Global Travel Hotlist “A total solar eclipse, two World Cups, several new flights and walking trails, and big birthday celebrations from Havana to Gisborne, New Zealand,” The Guardian lists their top 40 destinations worth checking out this… New Zealand | Highsnobiety 19 January 2019 Spend Some Layover Time in Auckland “Auckland is the international gateway to the green pasture paradise that is New Zealand. But before you head on to Queenstown to hit the slopes, bungee jump off cliffs, and dive into all the other insanity that happens in the… New Zealand | News Americas Now 21 January 2019 Chile’s WineBox Hotel a Hit with Tourists An environmentally friendly container hotel owned by New Zealand-born winemaker Grant Phelps has become a popular tourist spot for visitors to the port of Valparaíso, Chile.WineBox… Wine | New York Times (The) 17 January 2019 NZ Wine Has Huge Potential in Japan From sleepy New Zealand hillsides to sleek Tokyo dining scenes, a bottle of Hawke’s Bay wine shipped to Japan traces an arc that exporters like Sileni Estates’ CEO Nigel Avery see as an avenue… Community/General | Guardian (The) 19 January 2019 Children Walk From One End of NZ to the Other Jonathan Rapsey, six, and Elizabeth, nine, are on track to become the youngest to walk the 3000km Te Araroa trail, which runs the length… Business | Long Island Weekly 18 January 2019 Ed Mumm’s Earthmoving Fun to Franchise New Zealand-born Ed Mumm is the founder of Dig This LLC, a hands-on excavating experience in Las Vegas unlike any other where people from 8 to 108… Rugby | RugbyPass 16 January 2019 Why Dan Carter Is Still the Main Man in World Rugby Dan Carter led Japanese team, the Kobe Kobelco Steelers to victory in the Top League final recently, and with that victory the former New… Sport General | The Age 22 January 2019 Champions Chris Waller and Winx Stars of New Book “The human stars [in Andrew Rule’s biography Winx] are painted just as painstakingly as the equine heroine, but the man who is the most… Watersports | Surfer 22 January 2019 Pits and Puts with Surfer Kehu Butler “Kehu Butler may hail from New Zealand, the land of lefts, but you’d never guess that by the regularfoot’s powerful forehand in his new edit,” Ben Waldron writes for SURFER… Visual Arts | Forbes 17 January 2019 Art Basel Winner Zac Langdon-Pole Talks to Forbes The latest BMW Art Journey is informed by the ancient art of mapping stars. The winner, Auckland-born artist Zac Langdon-Pole, will take on an adventurous journey… Film & TV | Guardian (The) 19 January 2019 Looking Forward to Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit “Matthew McConaughey as a stoner poet, Hitler as an imaginary friend and Cats the movie – the third in our five-part look at 2019’s key titles takes us into strange… Film & TV | Hollywood Reporter 23 January 2019 Thomasin McKenzie Reflects on Breakout Year In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, 18-year-old Wellingtonian Thomasin McKenzie reflects on her breakout year (after Debra Granik’s latest film… Music | The Aspen Times 21 January 2019 Acclaimed DJ Opiuo Returns to Colorado New Zealand-born DJ and producer Oscar Davey-Wraight, who performs as Opiuo, solidified his place in the annals of Colorado music history last April… Music | Arizona Daily Star 21 January 2019 More Career Firsts for Conductor Gemma New New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New is building a resume with lots of little “first-ever” asterisks. Like her months-old appointment as… Writers | Guardian (The) 18 January 2019 Bill Manhire’s Antarctic Poems Spare and Tender Ernest Shackleton’s account of his mission and New Zealander Bill Manhire’s Field Notes are among Canadian author Jean McNeil’s… Legends | Global Post 22 January 2014 5 Years Ago – Kiwi Heroine Among the Greats New Zealand World War II heroine Nancy Wake has been named by Global Post as amongst the greatest female warriors off all time. In… Science/Tech | Telegraph (The) 17 January 2009 10 Years Ago – Fresh Sense Supermarket giant Tesco has signed on to use fruit labeling technology developed by New Zealand packaging specialists ripeSense. The color-coded labels… Film & TV | State (The) 26 January 2004 15 Years Ago – A Delightful Upset Peter Jackson may have been a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination, but the inclusion of first-time thespian Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) in the Best Actress category…