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First Friday Favourites for August

Friday, August 6th, 2010 by Admin

Beautful and practical reuse of a Mason jar from Re-Nest

Happy August! Apparently there are only 145 days till Christmas – it’s way too early to be thinking about Christmas (and the waste produced from it) but not too early to be thinking about warmer temperatures of spring and summer.

Here are our favourites links that we have found:

The Ideal Cup – A New Zealand made reusable coffee cup. Just need to give it reusable lids too.
Bernard Pras art from junk here.
The race is on to design the world’s biggest win turbine - here from The Guardian.
Adapting to climate change in New Zealand – a good summary here of the The Climate Change Centre’s latest report.
6 good reasons to use a farmers’ market from Simple Organic.
Rubbish is clogging the Three Gorges Dam in China story here .
And more on the excellent reuse of the Mason jar above from Re-Nest.

Enjoy a waste free weekend.

Tags: Bernard Pras, China, Christmas, climate change, farmers markets, Mason jar, rubbish, the Guardian, waste, wind turbines
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Collaboration for change – New World Lincoln

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 by Admin

The new Lincoln New World with rain water harvesting (image: TVNZ)

There are four integrated cogs to environmental change: individuals, community, business and government. It is key that all lead together to make the necessary changes to live more sustainably and reduce our impact on the environment. Leadership from the first three cogs has occurred today with the opening of the new New World Lincoln supermarket, just south of Christchurch.

We were so pleased to see this TVNZ news story video of the opening. Two wind turbines out the front for power, compostable trays for deli food, rain water reticulation for watering the garden and the heat from the refrigerators/coolers is used to heat the supermarket. Way to go. We are buzzing. This has been a great connect between local Lincoln individuals who are passionate about the environment, local Lincoln community groups working towards environmental change and the Foodstuffs supermarket coporate proactively and strategically including sustainability in their business and operational practices. This is a positive and highly beneficial move that will be great for our local Lincoln community and the wider environment.

Lincoln New World wind turbin (Image: TVNZ)

We need to see more direct environmental leadership and action that is relevant to individuals’ lifestyles and communities and yet shows the way forward. We can live differently and live better. Congratulations New World Lincoln. Will be in on the weekend to check it out.

Press release from Foodstuffs.

TVNZ Story to go with the Video.

Tags: climate change, collaboration, community, environmental sustainability, Green Collar Jobs, Lincoln, New World, TVNZ, wind turbines
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