We’re back and ready to go! Hope you had a great holiday and a happy new year.
Lots of plans at SIFT for 2011 but mostly we will keep on doing what we did last year: providing vital financial assistance to projects that reduce waste to landfill for Canterbury. Hopefully though there will be an increased awareness of the need to reduce consumption first and foremost (and secondly to demand more environmentally healthy package i.e. less plastic). This, by far, is the quickest and easiest way to reduce the amount of waste that is produced.
Here is a quick look back at our favourite/most interesting blog posts from 2010:
- e-waste art from Chris Jordan
- Ricoh
- The definition of waste
- Artist Simon Evans Taking Stock
- Unpackaged
- Home Made Cleaning Products
- Being a catalyst for change
- Practical Action Zig Zag
- Our new Green Vacuum Cleaner
- Practical Action Watch a Movie
- Site Visit – Comspec in Hornby
- Happy Earth Day
- Highlights from the WasteMinz Workshops
- Brown Paper packages tied up with string
- Congratulations Plasback
- Profile of the Waimakariri District
- Site Visit – CCC2
- Practical Action – Visit your local super shed
- Planning a waste free event
- New Rubbish Free Website
- Wood instead of plastic
- Country Road with Red Cross launched Fashion Trade
- Reducing Waste to Landfill at work
- The 3Rs from Jack Johnson
- Updated Christchurch Waste Statistics in August
- Local Charity creates rag trade initiative
- Blessed Unrest Book Review and Video
- Time to wake up and care
- Where will all the buildings go?
- Q&A Post Earthquake Waste Management
- Southern Pine Products
- Reducing emissions by 10% in 2010
- Industrial Symbiosis – from waste to profit
- New Waste Strategy Launched
- Air New Zealand’s Today for Tomorrow Programme
- The Sustainable Futures Institute
- Councils asked for big solutions by MfE
- Owens-Illinois – The future of glass production
- MfE Waste Minimisation Fund Recipients 2010
- WasteMinz Conference 2010 photos
- Story of Electronics
- Video – Plastic State of Mind
- The Self Repair Manifesto
- Buy no clothes for a year challenge
- The SIFT Christmas Tree
- Greening the Rubble
- TedX Great Pacific Garbage Patch Videos
Phew – what a year! Looking forward to seeing what 2011 will hold for us both locally, nationally and globally. Don’t forget to check out all the great links from the regular Friday Favourites and the Green Collar Job Q&A’s from earlier in the year.
