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.
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.
Recycler Wanaka Wastebusters is sending 1,232 Honest Water Eco-Bottles back to Charlie’s because Wastebusters can’t recycle them.
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.
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.
New Zealand shoppers are in tune with consumers around the world who believe their shopping choices can make a positive difference for farmers and workers in developing countries, according to a new global survey of 17,000 consumers in 24 countries conducted for Fairtrade International (FLO) by international research consultancy GlobeScan.
In case you missed it on our Facebook, Twitter and Google+ pages, here’s a neat article on ‘no-dig’ gardening (not sure about the title ‘No Work’ garden! I reckon there’s always a bit of work involved!) from eartheasy.com: 5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden Another article here on no dig gardening and a website dedicated […]
With one day to go until the biggest ever Earth Hour, a record 147 countries and territories are preparing to send a united message that now is the time to take action for the planet.
Earth Hour 2012 will take place at 8.30pm – 9.30pm on Saturday 31 March 2012
“I think this technology is very special to New Zealand, after all – we are a timber country. It’s fantastic to be able to use a local, sustainable resource, and locally developed technology, to design a unique looking, long-span commercial building that’s not been possible here before.”
Forest & Bird media release Forest & Bird today congratulated the Prime Minister for publicly confirming that New Zealanders will get a say in the access approval by the Department of Conservation for Bathurst Resources to build an open-cast coal mine on the Denniston Plateau. “This morning we are thrilled to see that the Prime […]
Packaging waste figures released this week by the Packaging Council show that a new Smartpackaging Advice service for businesses launched today is timely and needed.
The Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is pulling together a bunch of brilliant and diverse experts
to discuss the benefits of ‘shared value’ at its ‘Creating Sustainable Wealth: The Collective Challenge’
forum, in Auckland, on 29th March 2012.
