Did you miss out on our ‘Make your bed and grow in it’ 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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A simple, DIY raised garden bed will help you grow plenty of cheap food with zero food miles. Raised garden beds are good for your plants, good for you, and are good fun to make.
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Check out our easy-to-follow DIY guide to composting. You can make perfect compost with the waste you already produce and a few simple composting principles.
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Did you make a submission to the Climate Change Commission? We did. Keep reading to see what is important to us and what we had to say
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What makes a good heater? Ultimately, a heater needs to deliver warmth to where you sit or sleep, but there is plenty of science and technology behind how they work that can be confusing.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Looking for efficiency gains in your home? Perhaps you’re like Simon who just wanted to address draught issues, but ended up learning how to use his heat pump as well. Either way, a home energy assessment might be the move for you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Minister Eugenie Sage has announced the Government’s plan to change the way we deal with waste - by increasing the cost of sending waste to landfill and by investing $124 million into on-shore infrastructure to deal with recycling.
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To support local businesses, we've dedicated Plastic Free July to showcasing local businesses taking responsibility and doing their bit to reduce single-use plastic. Check out some of those pioneering change in the community.
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Every day for the past ten years, an eclectic mix of thoughtful committed individuals have come together to help make curtains for vulnerable families in need. This equals about $70,000 worth of time donated to keeping others warm, each year. Meet some of the volunteers that make up the Wellington Curtain Bank.
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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.
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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.
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Passionate about the world we live in, we have written to government ministers to encourage them to invest in solutions that create better housing and a low carbon, climate-resilient and inclusive economy for everyone
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Did you miss out on our ‘Conscious Consumerism’ 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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