The number of people in the world is expected to reach 7 billion by the end of October 2011. Our rate of increase continues to slow from the high point of over 2 percent in 1968. Still, this year’s 1.1 percent increase means some 78 million people will be added to the global population in 2011.
Garden.Geek.NZ is where Emily Davidow blogs about her ‘enthusiastic garden experiments and explorations in Aotearoa New Zealand’.
Emily has published a page with some handy resources on urban foraging. Well worth a look along with the rest of her site.
“AgroFair is the pioneer in sustainable fresh produce and fruit ingredients. Since the introduction of the first Fairtrade banana in 1996 we have developed into a producer-owned provider of sustainable fruit to leading supermarkets and food businesses in Europe. Currently we can offer a complete fruit basket of sustainable produce. All our fruit is minimum […]
The finalists in the third annual Sustainable 60 Awards have been decided, with Auckland Airport in the running for six awards. The company is closely followed by Beca, up for five awards, and Anguillid Consulting, Soar Printing and BNZ, in the running for four awards each. The categories are strategy and governance, marketplace, workplace, environment […]
Steffan Browning: Organic wine growing in Marlborough is reducing significantly the amount of dangerous pesticides used in the region. With 1400 hectares either BioGro certified organic or in conversion, that equates to a full 1000 hectares of land no longer herbicide sprayed.
Last year more than 1000 volunteers collected 10.4 tonnes of rubbish from 50 beaches between Marahau and Cable Bay totalling about 293km of coastline.
This year’s Big Beach Clean-up happens on the 19 November from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm. And already a range of groups, many involved with last year’s event, have signed up to take part in the community spring-clean.
In a contest that went down to the wire the Victoria University team has been awarded third place at the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, just a few points behind the winner.
Research carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and the Ministry of Health has shown that some New Zealand water supplies contain minute traces of lead that are near to or exceed the maximum acceptable level specified in the New Zealand Drinking Water Standards.
The 350.org Team reports:
We’re still exhilarated from the past weekend of Moving Planet events — a truly amazing show of global solidarity, commitment, and creativity.
We wanted you to have the first glimpse of the video showing what it all looked like:
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