Good Pantry – Fuelling your Health and a Sustainable future

A new business start-up with a focus on sustainable food choices in the form of superfoods. Created by three Kiwi friends on a mission to provide New Zealand with sustainable superfoods, GOOD PANTRY is the answer to eating for your future and good health, today. Good Pantry superfoods have a low impact on the worlds resources, combined with an impressive nutritional profile.

Environmental Educational Expo at Auckland Botanic Gardens

Many wonderful activities await Auckland families at this evironmental educational expo on 1st April 2017: hang out with your favourite Sticky TV presenters; navigate a bush walk to discover native bugs with Rudd Kleinpaste; plant seedlings in recycled materials; learn how to use left-over food; match packaged food to raw food; blend a smoothie with bicycle power; watch cooking demonstrations; support cultural performances; attend a recycled fashion show and learn all about what’s in your backyard at Eye on Nature.

We Owe our Lives to Fascinating Plants

18 May is the first global Fascination of Plants Day and we should all take time to stop and consider how fascinating they really are. Dee Pignéguy’s books, Sonja’s Kitchen and Gardening for Planet Earth, demonstrate how central plants are to your life and well-being and how you can grow fascinating and edible plants in your backyard.

No Alternative to Energy-Efficient Fans

Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) are implemented in Australia and New Zealand to reduce energy demand. Modern EC drives, specially developed by motor and fan specialist ebm-papst for use in home ventilation systems, perform substantially better in this respect, which is due to the way they work.