With his hair care products featured on Hollywood film and TV sets, stocked in over 100 stores around NZ and championed by World’s Denise L’Estrange-Corbet, prominent Kiwi trichologist Nigel Russell is ready to conquer the world with his natural hair care range Holistic Hair.
Join over 30 countries celebrating the power of wind energy on June 15th.
You can’t see wind, but you can feel its power. Global Wind Day is a chance for New Zealanders to show their support for a vital link in our energy chain.
Protei is a low-cost open-source oil collecting robot that autonomously sails upwind, intercepting oil sheens going downwind. Protei combines conventional technologies in an innovative design that we can implement in the short term to address timely environmental crisis such as the BP Oil Spill, cleaning the ocean gyre garbage patches or performing ocean research.
Flanders’ Drive, Volvo, Van Hool, Bombardier and others are partnering to work on creating an induction charging system that could allow electric vehicles to be charge quickly and conveniently.
Fresh coffee consumption is on the rise and with it, a dramatic increase in packaging waste. Enter the new ‘Econic’ coffee packets developed by Christchurch coffee roaster Geoff Johnson.
Contact Energy has been granted approval to build New Zealand’s largest wind farm near the coast between Raglan and Port Waikato.
New Colmar Brunton polling has revealed that New Zealanders want more than a third of their oceans protected in marine reserves – a 100-fold increase on current levels.
Richmond Plains has just won the first gold medals ever specifically awarded by the Hong Kong International Wine Challenge for organic and biodynamic wines.
Congratulations to Potato Pak!
Blenheim based Potato Pak has won the 2011 Unpackit Award for New Zealand’s best packaging with their compostable take-away container made from waste potato starch.
Sunday May 1 2011 marked a new era in Nelson waste management with the opening of an e-Cycle depot at the Nelson ReUse and Recycle Centre (NRRC) providing year-round recycling of electronic waste.
Voting is still open for the 16 finalists in the best and worst packaging awards on www.unpackit.org.nz.
Packaging is one of those issues where progress is being made, but much more needs to be done.
These ‘Awards’ are a brilliant way of both raising general awareness and bringing some light-hearted pressure to bear on those who produce and package goods in NZ.
As the massive scale of devastation and loss hits home, our hearts go out to those affected by the Feb 22 M6.3 earthquake.
