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KIRAN CHUG – The Dominion Post, via stuff.co.nz, 30-10-2010 Air pollution is at unsafe levels around some North Island highways, where World Health Organisation safety limits are being breached. New data has revealed Auckland and Hamilton roads with unacceptably high levels of pollutants known to…

By DIANE JOYCE – The Dominion Post, via Stuff, co.nz, 16/10/2010 An “astounding” 10 tonnes of rubbish has been dumped from the top of Hastings’ most well-known landmark, Te Mata Peak, risking its international reputation as a tourist attraction.  

By DAVID WILLIAMS – The Press, from Stuff.co.nz, 08/10/2010 New Zealanders are “trashing” nature and a radical economic rethink is needed to “save ourselves from ourselves”, says Department of Conservation director-general Al Morrison.

Via GoodCleanTech, 11 August 2010 Norwegian company EnSol AS has managed to create a transparent film that can harness solar energy. Because the film is transparent, it can be used for a variety of applications, including windows.

From GoodCleanTech: Mukesh Doble and Trishul Artham, of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, grew cultures of three different kinds of fungi on polycarbonate plastic (including the industrial-strength white-rot fungus, which has been shown before to effectively biodegrade industrial pollutants). Duble and Artham found that…

Apple has just released a new Battery Charger, which comes replete with 6 AA nickel-metal hybrid (NiMH) rechargeable batteries. Not only does using rechargeable batteries save you from buying and throwing out dozens of toxin-leaking standard batteries, but Apple has added another eco-friendly feature to…

By TANYA KATTERNS – The Dominion Post, via stuff.co.nz Genesis Energy is pushing ahead with its latest wind farm project and has applied for resource consent for a development in northern Wairarapa. The proposed Castle Hill Wind Farm would be spread over 30,000 hectares of…

I read the following article and was wondering how those slim tiles would perform in NZ conditions (ie timber frame, moving with various moisture loads, particularly radiata pine). From my experience, the thinner the tiles, the better the substrate has to be. You have less…

Just something I want to share with you. It’s about the unique New Zealand climate conditions. Have a look at http://www.climate-charts.com/World-Climate-Maps.htmlNZ has a similar temperature to southern Europe also with similar rainfall. The wind speed in NZ is slightly higher (should rather be a reason…

As we ran out of EcoStore dishwashing powerde, I had the pleasure of buying the auto dishwasher tablets instead because Pack’n Save didn’t have anything else. When I opened the cardboard box, I was first shocked about the plastic warpper around each tablett. But they…