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Sustainability Trust Presents: Mini Worm Farms for Kids at Cummings Park...
You’re invited to join in this fun session on worms and all the good work they do for us and our planet. Together, we’ll take a closeup look at how worms can turn our food scraps into useful compost,...
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Some brand new books with “green” credentials – sustainability & environment...
Here are some brand new books that cover environmental topics — and especially focus on sustainability and the environment. These titles show-case subjects as diverse as green fashion and green living,...
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Sustainability and the Environment – Recent picks for September
New books this month include: making your own green cleaning products, New Zealand’s sanctuaries that are saving native creatures from extinction, and a book explaining about solar power being the best...
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You can now reserve our Power Meters!
Our POWER METERS have proven quite successful and due to popular demand, they can now be reserved. So, you don’t have to leave it to chance anymore and hope that one will be available when you come...
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Recent Sustainability and Environment books
A book on DiY WiFi features this time: “It brings to life an Australian version of WiFi”. Sustainability : the basics / Peter Jacques. “Sustainability is concerned with the issues around the ongoing...
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Recent books about Sustainability and the Environment
This time we feature a book about David Oien, who decided to stand up to corporate agribusiness by growing organic lentils, and who now leads a group of farmers who have formed the successful “Timeless...
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Sustainability and the Environment
Attempting to live a sustainable life-style? Our selection this time includes Homesteading, Foodscaping, using renewable energy, composting, foraging and also finding art supplies from the natural...
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New books on Sustainability and the environment
This issue has a variety of resource books including an econest home, practiculture, sustainable gardening, natural homekeeping and new art projects which show respect for the environment. A wide range...
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Whanake Taiao: urban agriculture and beekeeping
This is the third week of our Whanake Taiao series of talks about Environmental Sustainability, held here at Wellington Central Library to celebrate Matariki. This week’s talk is all about bees and...
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Whanake Taiao: Rongoā Māori
Puanga kai rau. ka hua ai ngā pua, koia ko puanga. = an abundance of food at puanga, when the blossoms become fruit, that is puanga. Matariki ahunga nui Nau mai, haere mai ki tō tātou whare : welcome...
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Recent books on sustainability and the environment
Our books this time are a diverse mix, from oil, gardening, London, tiny houses, to Thailand’s sufficiency thinking. Tiny houses built with recycled materials : inspiration for constructing tiny homes...
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Recent books on sustainability and the environment
From permaculture to cohousing and small space gardening, lots of tips to keep your sustainable life style going well! And some reasons for others to take it up… Creating cohousing : building...
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Recent books on sustainability and the environment
Our first book this time is in two parts – the Mega City set of problems, and the second part a Garden City set of solutions. This is followed by the Bridget Williams Books published text Three cities,...
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Bees at the Library!
They are here! You probably read about our new resident bees up on the rooftop of the Central Library. You can find the Dominion Post daily on PressReader free via our website here Here are a few...
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Recent books on sustainability and the environment
Two ‘how-to’ books on permaculture begin this post, and we end with a book about the heroes working today to mitigate climate change, to secure a sustainable future for us and for our children. The...
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Recent books on sustainability and the environment
Creatures are featured in this month’s blog! Especially Chickens and Bees… And a beautiful book of tiny shelters ends our selection. Backyard chickens : how to keep happy hens / Dave Ingham. “A...
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July Sustainable Living Series @ WCL
This July, together with Love Food Hate Waste, Boomerang Bags, Birth Wise Wellington, NappyMojo, Kaicycle and the Sustainability Trust and in support of Plastic Free July, Wellington City Libraries...
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Recent books on sustainability and the environment
Thinking globally and acting locally. These titles cover topics as big as: who’s going to steer the ship on global policy around our environment? There are perspectives from scientists, activists, and...
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Get the buzz on bees & the environment with these new books
Once again, bees are the most popular topic in our sustainability and the environment post this month! Advanced top bar beekeeping : next steps for the thinking beekeeper / Christy Hemenway. “Bee...
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Recent books on sustainability and the environment, featuring foraging: and...
There are lots of ideas to get your teeth into this month, some of them literally! New eco homes / Manel Gutiérrez. “New Eco Homes features twenty-two sustainable homes from around the globe that...
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