Natural Habitats is proud to launch the next advancement in green roof technology – the EcoPillow. Modular in design, the EcoPillow is a pre-grown living roof that offers all the proven benefits of a green roof while radically reducing risk and cost of the roofing structure. The Eco Pillow structure and the growing medium were […]
2011’s Husqvarna Global Garden Report identified the value that a well-maintained garden space brings to home’s property value, especially at time of sale. 69% of real estate agents believed that the garden was either important or very important for the overall market value of a property. 16 % increase on the value of a property […]
The Thames Coromandel District is one of the very few districts in the country mixing biosolids with green waste and turning it into Grade Aa compost with its own Biosolid Composting Facility. “This is an innovative and sustainable outcome of creating a beneficial product from human waste,” says Thames Coromandel District Council Project Manager Rob […]
Landscape Architect Jenny Wood from Natural Habitats shares her ideas about planting public places. If you have the benefit (or the curse) of living in a city, you will have noticed that on average our backyards are getting smaller, while our waistlines are getting bigger. You don’t have to know a lot about physics to […]
5 July 2012 The proposed changes to the purpose and principles of the Resource Management Act (RMA) are a major assault on the Act and on sustainable management, said Green Party environment spokesperson Eugenie Sage today. The report released today by the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) outlines substantive changes to the principles […]
5 July, 2012 Environment Minister Amy Adams today released an independent report which considered changes to sections 6 and 7 of the Resource Management Act to address, among other things, management of natural hazards. “After the Canterbury earthquakes, it became clear that consents for subdivisions had been granted without any consideration of the risk of […]
The 6th annual national survey of garden birds is about to begin. The survey encourages residents to spend an hour, sometime between June 30th and July 8th 2012 recording the highest number of birds seen or heard at one time. It is important that the recording is done in this manner so that individual birds […]
The Property Council has launched an unusual challenge in the Environment Court to Auckland Council’s tree protection rules, says the Environmental Defence Society. “We are aware that papers have been filed seeking a declaration from the Court with respect to matters that were subject to very similar proceedings and a decision just last year,” said […]
