Tag: "Education"
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Denmark is truckloads of waste ahead of New Zealand when it comes to recycling.
Denmark is truckloads of waste ahead of New Zealand when it comes to recycling. When you visit a typical recycling depot in Denmark it can be difficult to know where to back in the trailer. After all there’s the not just the sections for paper or glass, but rows of options like for gib-board, electronic […]
Aug 10, 2009 | 0 comments
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Planting Made Easy
With the burgeoning interest of city dwellers in growing their own food, one of the key challenges to food gardeners has been resolved with a new release of the www.cityfoodgrowers.com organic gardening web site. At the click of mouse, gardeners from any location in Australia, USA and New Zealand can select by day, month or plant […]
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 comments
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Stop poisoning Bees
Pesticides could decimate New Zealand’s bee population unless the Government takes action, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today. “Bees are vital to our economy, our horticulture, our agriculture and our ecology,” Ms Kedgley said. “We depend on them for about one third of our food, through their role as pollinators.”
May 04, 2009 | 0 comments
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Dog’s death prompts warnings about poison plants
Auckland Regional Public Health Service is advising people to be careful around poisonous plants after a dog died from eating karaka berries in an Auckland park. Karaka berries are attractive to both children and dogs. The berries fall from the trees in summer, are two and a half to four centimetres long, oval in shape […]
Mar 26, 2009 | 3 comments
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Soil Carbon – the new cash crop?
Hawke’s Bay to host New Zealand Soil Carbon Conference The international spotlight will be on Hawke’s Bay when the NZ Soil Carbon Conference is held in Napier in June. Featuring international experts, renowned scientists and industry leaders, the three day conference will focus on the reality of climate change, biological farming and the huge global […]
Feb 20, 2009 | 4 comments
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Tag a butterfly… help science!
Ever wonder where Monarch butterflies go for the winter? The Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust is looking for New Zealand ‘citizen scientists’ to report sightings, as the Monarchs follow their annual migration. A degree is not needed; anyone can take part, and everyone, schools included, are welcome to join the Trust’s annual project. Secretary Jacqui Knight […]
Feb 10, 2009 | 0 comments
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