We are rubbish at dealing with our rubbish

I recently read an article about just how much waste we New Zealanders generate each year. In 2018, it was 734kg per person (Blake-Persen, 2...

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Considering water use

In New Zealand, most councils have moved to a water metering system, using loggers on the mains supply where it enters the property. There i...

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Reviewing business tasks, processes and plant

While any time is a good time to review what we do, sometimes it is easier to think about those things at the start of a new year, and the...

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Watching the tide go out

I have a 'soft' rule that each new thing coming into the house needs to have two things going out so there is a net decrease on po...

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The Slow Work of Un-Stuffocation

We all seem to have lots of 'stuff'. Apparently many Westerners have a two car garage which cannot fit a single car in it (CBS Su...

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The Year of Less - a review

Cait Flanders, author of "The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than A...

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Leave the plastic behind

Consumer magazine recently published an article about plastic packaging. They investigated three supermarket chains - Countdown, Pak'n...

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Consuming to Refuse

I have written before about trying to become less wasteful, and of the seven priorities - in order for paying attention to consumption: (1...

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New Zealand: 100% waste

Earlier this year, an American tourist posted on his blog that we in New Zealand are in no way true to the "100% Pure New Zealand...

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Savings Claims for Recycled Clothing

A friend of mine reposted a thread from 1 Million Women, stating that "If one million women bought their next item of clothing second...

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The 7 Rs of Recycling

I read with horror recently that we Kiwis dump 734kgs of plastic, per head of population, per annum (Morton, 14 April 2018). And, of cour...

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The Gap Between Promise and Action

A friend of mine recently created lovely neat channels on the door to the family pantry to hold Nespresso pods. While the work was fabulou...

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Reducing waste

Recently I have been reading the book, "The Year of Living Danishly", about a London couple in their 30s who get the opportuni...

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"Say it with [plants]"

Extracted from (Brown, n.d.). I used to send flowers to friends, family and clients for special occasions, but I don't any more. I...

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Newsletter Issue 202, June 2011

Sam Young Newsletter Issue 202, June 2011 Hi guys, Me-time is good for our mental wellbeing. Che...

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