Sustainability Contestable Fund ...

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 ...

Natural Cleaning
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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...