Bloomin Brilliant
Words Vicki Ravlich-Horan Images Ashlee DeCaires Frankton School caretaker Murray Ivory believes flowers brighten your day. Visit Frankton School in the summer months and you will experience this first-hand. A few years ago, rushing to drop my daughter at the holiday programme held at Frankton School, I was compelled, despite my lateness, to stop in […]
Full Circle
Words Megan Lyon, Images Ashlee DeCaires It’s Friday, so volunteer Ian pulls into the yard of Lake Road Hospice ready to unload his day’s collection. He loves to drive, along with Robbo, and in nine years Ian has only missed six Fridays. They often visit people who have lost their spouse and are in […]
Waipuna Hospice Charity Shop Te Puke Celebrates 10 Years!
Words and images by Brydie Thompson You’ll likely hear Catherine Sipson spontaneously singing before you see her bouncing down the shop aisles. Her enthusiasm and positivity are contagious, making Waipuna Hospice Charity Shop in Te Puke a fun place to work and visit. Catherine became retail manager of the store a decade ago, expanding into […]
Those Simple Bare Necessities
Words by Megan Lyon, Images by Ashlee DeCaires BARE Refill Grocery Store (BARE) occupies the street frontage of the newly minted MADE urban precinct in Hamilton East, with an extensive inventory ranging from free-flow frozen dumplings to toothpaste on tap. Underpinning everything at BARE is owner Bridie McNarama’s ethos to reduce waste and packaging, and […]
LegaSea
By David Wrigley For as long as people have inhabited these islands, we have been a nation of fishers. Ever since Te Ika-a-Māui was pulled from the ocean, we have fished for fun, for sport, for profit, and for kai. This close relationship with the ocean and all that swims in it hasn’t always been […]
Grinding Out Waste
Excelso coffee have long been on a path of reducing their waste, be it sewing the sacks the coffee beans come in into cool reusable bags and aprons or encouraging their clients to ditch the single use coffee cups, they are always looking for new ways to lessen their environmental impact. But what about the […]
It’s Time to Make Waste History
Words Emily Gray, Images Alex Spodyneiko “We have the solution to make waste history.” So states Vincent Callister. The founder of event waste management company Waste Wizards is on a mission: to provide coffee drinkers with an easy and sustainable alternative to single-use coffee cups. Needing to diversify Waste Wizards during the Covid-19 pandemic, Vincent […]
Waste Not
Words Vicki Ravlich-Horan, Images Brydie Thompson New figures recently released indicate New Zealander’s throw out more than $3 billion worth of food each year – more than $1,500 per household per year. While many of us compost or have worm farms and some regions have food waste collections which all reduce the impact of […]
Waste Not
Food waste is a huge problem! The problem does not lie in the sheer waste – and the many layers in which waste happens when food doesn’t end up getting eaten (like the waste of resources to grow, store and transport food; the waste of money spent to buy it). The real problem lies in […]
It’s Not PR But the 3Rs
Plastic, it’s literally everywhere! It’s wrapped around our food, it’s in our clothing, our carpets, and now it’s on our oceans and our food chain. The invention of plastic in the early 1900s was an environmental breakthrough, replacing the unstainable use of animal and wood products like ivory and tortoiseshell. By the 1960s plastic had […]