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Your Sustainable Home - Grow Food Now
Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 24/04/2020 Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 24/04/2020

Your Sustainable Home - Grow Food Now

Did you miss out on our ‘Grow Food Now’ webinar? No worries, here’s an overview of it, including a recording of the webinar + helpful links and supporting information for you to check out at your own leisure.

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Recycling in NZ is real confusing.
Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 31/01/2020 Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 31/01/2020

Recycling in NZ is real confusing.

Recycling plastic can be overwhelming and difficult to understand, but don’t worry, most people struggle with the same thing. You almost need a degree in recycling to understand how to recycle. Waste MINZ did an audit and wrote a report on the state of recycling in NZ. We summarised the report so you didn’t have to.

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Let's get Wellington composting
Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 10/12/2019 Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 10/12/2019

Let's get Wellington composting

2020 is going to be a big year for community composting in Wellington. We'll be working alongside our pals at Kaicycle and GrowSpace to set up three community composting hubs in Wellington. All thanks to new seed funding from Wellington City Councils.

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Announcement of new Chief Executive at Sustainability Trust
Sustainability Advice / Community, Sustainable Homes/ Home Advice Guest User 28/11/2019 Sustainability Advice / Community, Sustainable Homes/ Home Advice Guest User 28/11/2019

Announcement of new Chief Executive at Sustainability Trust

Our beloved head honcho Phil is stepping down from his role as CE to focus on energy poverty. Although we'll miss his leadership, we're delighted to share that we have a new CE on the way - Ms Georgie Ferrari.

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How can you Bee Aware?
Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 01/09/2019 Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 01/09/2019

How can you Bee Aware?

Around the world is there is growing concern about the health of bees. The humble bee is threatened by disease, mites, pesticide use and habitat degradation. Learn how you can your bit to save the bees.

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Not all curtains are created equal.
Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 17/02/2019 Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 17/02/2019

Not all curtains are created equal.

Today someone slashed the tires on our community van. This comes a week before the Wellington Curtain Bank opens its doors for another year of providing FREE curtains to families that need them. 

This is how they deliver them. 

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Best tips for reducing waste over Xmas and summer
Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 18/10/2018 Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 18/10/2018

Best tips for reducing waste over Xmas and summer

New Zealanders send 50,000 extra tonnes of waste to landfill over Christmas. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way! Two no-waste nomads share their top tips for reducing waste over the silly season.

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David on making the most of curtains
Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 20/03/2018 Sustainability Advice / Community Guest User 20/03/2018

David on making the most of curtains

Effective curtains can reduce heat loss by 60 percent for single glazed windows, and by as much as 50 percent for double-glazing. The good news is that there are a few, simple low-cost modifications you can make to improve the performance of your existing curtains.

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