We visit Holland Beckett Law, a commercial 'Why Waste Worms' customer to speak with Kate Reidy who works in their Environment and Resource Management team.
About half of Holland Beckett Law’s staff could be considered 'Millennials', which research* has shown are bringing an entirely different values set into the workplace.
Read MoreAfter hitting rock bottom hopelessness and climate anxiety in winter of 2019, I developed a practice of personal enquiry to steer us towards mental resilience in the face of our uncertain future. The reminders enabled me to face what I’d been told were symptoms of ‘Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder’ and cultivate the will to continue my work as a changemaker, partner, friend and civil participant.
Read MoreRachel shares how their worm farm has become a part of their workplace living ecosystem. Her partner Dave has named it ‘The Snake Pit’. Their staff love it and have a lot of fun with it.
Read MoreDebbie shares her passion of how the simple action of hiring a managed worm farm has contributed in a positive way. She has successfully reduced her waste from one bin every week to one bag every six to eight weeks! Not only has she reduced her waste and methane production, but she’s created a positive benefit of more soil, which is depleted worldwide.
Read MoreIf finding a new way to be on our home planet was driven by love instead of fear, what would that look like? Leo Murray's rhythmic prose and captivating imagery will gently question your values and motivations and give you permission to redefine 'simple' in your own life.
Read MoreNow is the time to be preparing your garden beds for Spring planting. Worm tea is the best natural fertiliser for your plants. It is far superior to chemical fertilisers, which contain pesticides and herbicides, that burn the soil and kill beneficial microbes. Worm tea adds beneficial microbes, and the microbes puts nitrogen back to the soil; making it available for plants to absorb. It’s a great way to boost your garden!
Read MoreWe are all indigenous to somewhere, severed from our ancestry through colonial imperialism, unable to fullfill our purpose as kaitiakitanga - the guardians and gardeners of this planet.
Read MoreBefore I got wound up creating change, I used to party for a living. You can only do that for so long before it becomes a bit meaningless - so I became obsessed with my current work in search for purpose. Recently I launched a concept which bridges these two worlds, and it went really well!
Read MoreOver 50% of our waste is biodegradable. Organic waste to landfill degrades our water, pollutes our air, and robs our soil of life. You can transform the problem into the solution by feeding this waste to worms and building soil with our easy and affordable service. Get a year subscription to our worm farm hire during May to contribute to Inspire Change, our social impact initiative reducing waste and growing food in local schools.
Read MoreWe believe everyone wants to do the right thing for the environment. So it’s an awareness/education piece around what is the ‘right thing’ for the environment, why isn’t the right thing happening currently and how to change our habits towards the right thing moving forward. But how do we know what is the ‘right thing’?
Read MoreA key message in the ‘Beyond Sustainability’ workshops I toured over summer is that ‘Sustainability’ is a short sighted end-goal, existing only as a knife edge between ‘Degeneration’ and ‘Regeneration’. A great way to understand this is through Bill Reed’s Trajectory of Ecological Design.
Read MoreA reluctant watchdog in the sustainability world, I often wind up calling out businesses/organisations for greenwashing – or ‘eco virtue-signalling’ as I like to call it. It’s a total drag focusing on the negative, which is the wrong way to frame the discussion around change.
Read MoreTo see our society as a tree, and understand the pre-colonial settlement of our whenua as the roots of that tree. Since the hui, I’ve formed some beautiful relationships here in the rohe that I live in. I am seeking to learn their story out of curiosity and care in the hope that a contextual awareness can inform the way I approach bioregional biculturalism, and beyond that help transition Aotearoa into a new way of inter-cultural interbeing.
Read MoreThe article takes special interest in the method that we used to build the house initially. Over two weeks we had 14 participants come and live with us, paying to learn from the best Tiny House builders out about small space architecture and tiny house construction. We know three of those workshop participants who have built/are building their own tiny houses, so it’s a great way to spread knowledge and gain inspiration.
Read MoreI made a hot aerobic compost. But it was no ordinary compost… We wanted to explore whether we could attain heat from purely biological processes – in other words, infinitely sustainable processes.
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