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May 22, 2012
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Taupo could be in for a new eco-sustainable
housing community, reshaping the way houses receive heat, electricity,
water, and use wastewater. The New Zealand Clean Energy Centre (NZCEC) is currently investigating whether such a project would be feasible, using geothermal or biomass heat to heat homes; generating
electricity from solar and wind sources; and reusing wastewater by
drip-irrigating it to energy crops to provide future fuel for the community.
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Next month marks the opening of a fresh exhibition, Millennium Magazines, at the museum of Modern Art in New York – and a Kiwi magazine has been picked to feature in it. Originally formed in Wellington in 2004, White Fungus is now based in Taiwan, but still features a large amount of New Zealand content. It was born as a free handout
protesting a new inner-city bypass in Wellington and has since expanded into a full-blown art rag.
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With the likes of the Auckland Council and
Melbourne’s South East Water on the books, Nextspace is scratching the
surface of a $2 billion market potential. While paper plans are still the norm, the company is betting its 3D visualisation technology will become the
standard for Auckland’s planning, creating a living and breathing
account of the city.
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We Kiwis aren’t the clean, green, recycling
machines we think we are: 77 percent of plastics go unrecycled each
year, resulting in 252,000 tonnes of plastic waste in our landfills. And
SodaStream has decided to tackle this head-on, hitting the road with a bit of a PR stunt
aimed at giving us a wake-up call about what all that rubbish looks like.
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A murky pond beside Auckland’s busy Northern Motorway
is at the centre of an environmental trial to produce cleaner water with the help of a
garden growing on a floating island. Plants on the wetland have been selected for their extensive mass of roots,
an important factor in helping filter polluted water. Their diet
includes contaminants found typically in a motorway environment – oils,
zinc, chromium and copper, the residue of tyres, brake linings and fuel
flushed into the pond when it rains.
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Power conglomerate Meridian Energy has pulled the plug on its proposal to build a $2 billion wind farm in Central Otago. Meridian is currently withdrawing its Environment Court appeal for resource consents for Project Hayes, which would have been a 176-turbine wind farm, with a capacity of 633.6 MW, in the Lammermoor Range.
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A contract to increase methanol production in
Taranaki is being touted as bringing billions of extra revenue into the
country over the next decade. Methanex is entering into a 10-year deal with Todd Corporation Group to restart a second methanol
manufacturing train at its Motunui
facility, north of New Plymouth. That would mean a doubling of production for Methanex, further
development of Todd’s Mangahewa gasfield, and the creation of 500
construction jobs.
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