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Wetland View Park – Golden Bay

Quality accommodation overlooking the Mangarakau swamp and the limestone bluffs beyond. Total peace and quiet except for the birdsong. Lovely walks through the wetland and …

Smartpackaging workshop for Auckland businesses

Wanaka Wastebusters will be running a Smart Packaging Business Workshop in Auckland on Thursday 17th May, in partnership with the Sustainable Business Network. The workshop will help businesses add value to their brand by choosing smart packaging which has less impact on the environment. Real packaging challenges faced by businesses will be addressed during the […]

Take A Walk On The Wildside

Wildside Getaway Ruapehu

Building a self-sufficient eco-lodge in the heart of the bush: from mud to mod-cons.

Wildside Getaway – Ruapehu

Self sufficient, private, upmarket eco-house on bush property with views to Mount Ruapehu and Mount Taranaki. Adventure playground – close proximity to ski fields, trout …

It’s Business Time for Bret Mckenzie with Fair Trade And Oxfam

Bret McKenzie

Oxfam has extended this year’s Fair Trade Me celebrity auctions for a very special one-off auction with one half of New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk-parody duo, Oscar-winner and FIGWIT himself, Bret McKenzie. The auction launches today on Trade Me and coincides with the start of Fair Trade Fortnight.

Little River Campground – Retro Kiwi Camping, Banks Peninsula

Accommodation close to Akaroa on Banks Peninsula. A classic kiwi campground with river and native bush habitat. We have a covenant with The Banks Peninsula …

Fair Trade Fortnight May 5-20 2012

Fair Trade Fortnight logo

Kiwis are being urged to Choose Fair this Fair Trade Fortnight (5-20 May) to help provide a better future for more and more struggling small-scale farmers and workers in developing countries.

WormsRus – Organic Waste Solutions

The team at Worms R Us is totally committed to showing how easy it is to recycle organic waste, grow healthy food and save money. …

Recycler sends 1,232 Honest Water Eco-Bottles back to Charlie’s

Gina with a Charlie's Honest Water Eco-Bottle. photo credit Sophie Ward.

Recycler Wanaka Wastebusters is sending 1,232 Honest Water Eco-Bottles back to Charlie’s because Wastebusters can’t recycle them.

Remarkable Adventures NZ – Adventure Vacations & Multi Activity Holidays

Small group, guided multi activity adventure tours for sophisticated travellers seeking an active New Zealand vacation with opportunities to try new activities and gain an …

Ecofest coming to Golden Bay in May 2012

Ecofest Logo

Staging Ecofest in Golden Bay this year is one sure way of making the smart ideas more accessible to people on this side of the Hill, says Claire, and there will be plenty on display when Ecofest opens at 10am on Saturday 12 May in the Takaka Primary School hall.

Maui’s death the tragic price of inaction

Maui dolphins surfacing

Forest & Bird said today the reported death of another Maui’s dolphin on the Taranaki coast underlines the tragic failure of the government to act fast enough to ensure the world’s rarest dolphin is saved from extinction.