The Prime Minister has brought her own beehive to Auckland as part of a one-of-a-kind "living building" project.
The $1.5 million project is spearheaded by Kiwi charity Sustainable Coastlines who are promising the building will have zero impact on the environment and instead, give power back to the grid.
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Of all the green buildings on the planet, this may very well be the greenest.
Sustainable Coastline's CEO Sam Judd says that's what they're aiming for.
The building is quite simply, a green dream.
"We estimate that we have 85 percent salvaged materials by weight, which has never been done in the world before in a living building," Mr Judd told Newshub.
"[The walls] enable us to produce food here in the city, but we will also cleaning up the air with those walls," he said.
"We generate our electricity from the sun. We harvest our own drinking water from the sky, and we have a reconstructed wetland.
"[The location has] been designed to we can unscrew it, unbolt it, and put it on a ship and take it to Christchurch if we have to."
Even the facilities are toxic material free, Mr Judd explaining: "We have a composting toilet block over here. We had to think of everything, we had to find everyone that we could to help do this."
They had to because to become a fully certified living building is no easy feat.
There are only 15 in the world.
"It is the hardest standard to meet, we wanted to go right for the top," Mr Judd said.
This is the 16th certified living building in the world but the second one outside of the US.
The other, is actually also in New Zealand... Te Kura Whare in the bay of plenty has been the only fully certified building in Aoeteroa up until now and actually inspired this project.
The idea is to have more, so plans are made available for anyone so they can be replicated.
The building will now be monitored for a year, to prove it does in fact generate 105 percent of the energy it needs. If it does that, and the team is confident that it will, it'll join that exclusive club.
More than 2000 people have been involved in the project, many working pro bono.
And 25 prison inmates are part of that count.
"At the same time they're getting qualifications that are aimed at reducing reoffending," Mr Judd said.
Jacinda Ardern is giving it her tick of approval tonight and adding a beehive's everyone doing their bit to keep this green dream alive.
Newshub.
