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General8th March 2020
Ministry of Education - Sustainability Contestable Fund
Sustainability Contestable Fund ...
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General9th December 2015
Paris Talks, Bullshit Walks.
Recently The United Nations climate change talks in Paris exposed our Prime Minister as being blatantly defiant in making any real commitment to taking action on trying to improve our ...
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General4th December 2015
Natural Chemical Free Cleaning
Natural Cleaning
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We spend thousands of dollars each year keeping our house clean. We attempt this by killing all germs and harmful insects and viruses with all manner of chemicals. These ... -
General29th November 2015
Summer Comes in: Save Water!
In our daily activities we don’t really think about the water we use: flush the toilet, take a shower, wash a car, shave… Many of our actions waste our water. ...
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General29th November 2015
5 Reasons why you should aim for Homestar certification
Homestar is a rating tool for New Zealand homes in terms of energy use, a good indoor environment, water, waste and more. The goal of Homestar is to improve the ...
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General1st October 2015
“Homestar is setting new standards in the New Zealand housing industry”
Homestar™ is a comprehensive, national, residential rating tool that evaluates the environmental attributes of New Zealand's stand-alone homes, townhouses and apartments in terms of energy, health and comfort, water, waste ...
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General27th July 2014
Building a Better New Zealand
Innovative ways to create better communities and improve the performance of existing buildings will be discussed by national and overseas speakers at the Building a Better New Zealand conference in ...
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General31st May 2011
New qualification in Natural Building
While building using natural materials was certainly the norm in pre-industrialised societies, modern day construction methods have favoured energy intensive and highly processed materials. Now, however, a growing awareness ...
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