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Earth houses

Interested in earth houses? Check out the Earth Building Association’s site: http://www.earthbuilding.org.nz/index.htm

Organic dairy products

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Hi, I heard last year that Fonterra closed down 25 organic farms in New Zealand - are there any left at all in New Zealand?  Is it possible to buy locally made cheeses and yoghurts, ...

Green Philly

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It's always sunny in Philadelphia – and now it's getting greener. I though this was cool – it made me want to visit Philadelphia: http://grist.org/article/philadelphia-katherine-gajewski-is-turning-a-gritty-city-green/

Chickens

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Hi, I'm quite keen on getting some rescued chickens – would love it if you could do an article in your magazine, about what I would be required to provide them (ie. how much space, best ...

Things in my worm farm

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Hi, HELP - can you please tell me if these are fruit fly larvae?  My hungry bin worm farm seems to be absolutely crawling with them and I do get a lot of fruit flies ...

Metal and other hard-to-get-rid-of waste

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I had an email recently about a metal collection service – here's the details – awesome service as this stuff is generally very hard to get rid of!!  And it sounds like it is for a great ...

Auckland recycling collection

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How is the material that we throw into the big blue 'recycling' bins in Auckland processed? It seems to me that someone, somewhere has a MASSIVE job to sort everything that's in these bins into the individual ...

What to do with old boxes

They say children always prefer playing with the box their toys come in, and with this creative idea it's easy to see why! Found this picture of a super-cute playhouse cleverly made with cardboard boxes; I ...

How to recycle your analogue TV

New Zealand television is going digital – but where do all those old analogue TVs go? Not into landfill we hope – they contain toxic materials like lead, mercury and cadmium which can leach into ...