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  By MELISSA SINGER – The Age via Stuff.co.nz, 18/03/2010 An electronics manufacturer with a history of making false environmental claims has been caught doctoring fridges to make them appear more energy efficient.

From Re:Speak, retrieved 08/03/2010 A new building in downtown Christchurch gets a record 6 Green Star rating from the NZ Green Building Council, check out some impressive specs…

  Via Treehugger, 24/02/2010 With the US Airforce announcing that cost-competitive algae jet fuel may be just months away, greener flying is looking less and less like pie in the sky. Despite seeing its profits squeezed by Eurostar and high oil prices, British Airways has…

Via The New Zealand Herald, by Eloise Gibson, 15/02/2010 Car and smoke-stack pollutants shunned since the 1970s for causing acid rain may be taking some heat out of global warming, but there is uncertainty about their exact effect.

I recently stubled across my first bottle of PLA filled with NZ water. It stated Ingeo on a label.

The Question in LinkedIn Green group was: "Should the (US) plastic manufacturing industry stop the use of bioplastics and oxy-degradable plastics because they are likely to pollute existing waste streams and jeopardize the recycling process?" I would like to ask the provocative question why we…

When we are talking about sustainability and use of resources and land, etc, we unfortunately have to talk about a red herring called "birth control" – or "birth rates" to be more political correct. We cannot expect the world population to grow infinitely in a…

While reading through a web article about hydro power generation, I thought: What if we would put micro hydro turbines in our stormwater or maybe even wastewater pipes.  Some waterwheel types that do not clog up and do not need much pressure…..

Via stuff.co.nz, 22/01/2010 Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world’s most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologise and promise to be more careful. The errors are in a 2007…

Via stuff.co.nz, 12/01/2010 New Zealand’s largest harbour could be providing power to 250,000 homes within 10 years now that the Government has been advised to give its blessing to a tidal power station.