Last financial year, we provided the highest number of free, lined curtains ever to families with Community Services Cards. To be exact, we gave 2462 sets of curtains to 604 households! This year we want to reach even more! 

HomeFit is a home certification process created by the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) with the housing sector to help people understand how healthy their home is and support them to make the necessary changes.

How can you cool down at home - sustainably? Get our staff favourite easy tips: from curtains to wet heads, fans to hot water bottles, insulation to starry nights and more.

It’s a great time to get stuck into the garden. The most hardworking - and in my case, neglected - feature of my garden is the worm farm.

Upper Hutt Repair Café is home to a community’s worth of DIY knowledge. This is a story of an awesome community hub, set up by the community for the community.

The idea of an essential worker has done a favour to the living wage movement because a lot of what we call essential workers are not paid the living wage. The irony of it is that some of the highest-paid people in our society are not deemed, essential workers.

We sat down with a couple of our partners to hear what being Living Wage Accredited meant to them.

Do you know what three of our nations political parties have in store on the environmental policy front? We wanted to know. So with help from Environmental Hubs Aotearoa, we pulled some questions together and asked. Here’s what they had to say.

Lighting costs the average Kiwi household $220 per year – roughly 12 per cent of its electricity bill. LEDs use up to 85% less energy saving you money in the long run.

Recycling the right way certainly has its challenges, especially when it comes to contamination. In this post, we will explain what contamination is and what you can do to keep it out of your recycling.

Did you miss our ‘Warm, dry, healthy home - here to help ’ 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.

Did you miss out on our ‘Litterless Lunches and Food Waste’ 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.

Did you miss out on our ‘Growing in your community ’ 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.

Did you miss out on our ‘Composting at Home’ 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.

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.

Want to reduce your home’s carbon footprint? Check out our lastest blog post on how you can retrofit your home using smart architecture.

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.

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.

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.

In this guest post, Tenancy Services are reminding landlords that insulating rental properties is not only the right thing to do, but it's also legally required to be in place by 1 July 2019.

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.