Bike Wise Month, held in February every year, consists of a number of activities and events across the country, including the Big Bike Fix Ups, Go By Bike Day and the Bike Wise Challenge.
Nelson’s Go By Bike Day is back on Wednesday 15 February with free breakfasts for riders all over town between 7 and 9am.
Forest & Bird today launched the latest edition of its Best Fish Guide to help New Zealanders choose seafood that is sustainably fished and to ensure we can always put fresh fish on our tables.
Nominations for the Unpackit Packaging Awards are rolling in before the nominations close on Friday, with the Worst Packaging category proving the most popular.
Straw Bale Home Design & Construction Workshop, 11-18 February 2012, Geraldine, South Canterbury
Cob Working Bee at The Point in Hororata – Canterbury Sunday 12th February, Hororata (near Darfield) The Canterbury Cob group are in the process of restoring an 1860s cob cookhouse at The Point in Hororata. Come and join us on February 12th or contact Zoe Roland areacoordinatorcw@historic.org.nz for more information. Date: Sunday 12th February. 9.30am […]
New Zealand’s longest-running festival for health and wellbeing is going green to reduce its impact on the environment.
Evolve Festival – Founders Heritage Park, Nelson, on 18-19 February, 2012.
3-week hands-on residential course, 2 – 22 February 2012
Tui Community, Golden Bay, South Island, NZ
Forest & Bird said Friday the public interest and care being given to a sea lion and her pup in Dunedin highlights how important the endangered sea lions are to New Zealanders – and the need to halt their slide toward extinction.
Simply by visiting the supermarket less and having local food delivered to your door, you’ll be part of a sweeping movement of conscious citizens that are enjoying tastier, healthier, more trustworthy and more ethical daily meals.
A culture of home gardening, food sharing and small artisan producers are at risk of being suppressed by future Ministerial decree. The Food Bill, supposedly intended to reduce compliance costs for the food industry, while eventually reducing the incidence of food borne illness, has such sweeping powers that best intent could be lost under bureaucratic pressure.
Can your grocery shop really save the world – and would you spend any more if it did?
Here’s a great set of articles by Andrew Laxon of the NZ Herald on the pros and cons of ethical shopping.
ELOISE GIBSON writes in Stuff.co.nz “A typical New Zealand-made coffee cup begins life in the forests of Russia, after which a Finnish company coats the paper in plastic and ships it to Henderson, West Auckland, where Huhtamaki shapes it into takeaway cups. The caffeine-loving public gets through about 180 million disposable cups a year, including […]
