Bathurst Resources, an Australian company backed by Chinese money, has secured consents for an Escarpment mine on the Denniston plateau near Westport, with numerous groups outraged by the decision and Green Party climate change campaigner Kennedy Graham calling it “the ... More …
A case study of how sustainable business methods have worked for a small Kiwi wine producer. More …
It was a genuinely shocked and very stoked former Massey University student who took out this year’s New Zealand James Dyson Award at a ceremony in Auckland’s new Viaduct Events Centre. Nicholas Couch’s recyclable shoe designed for ... More …
Fresh back from We Can Create, here’s one video that really stood out to us. The rather tall Tomas Roope, digital practitioner at the UK’s The Rumpus Room, shared this video with the audience as part of his ... More …
Taking Word and Excel files away from the average office worker and replacing them with some sort of online representation would be like taking guns away from Charlton Heston's "cold dead hands". More …
Massey University has appointed its first ever Innovator-in-Residence, who will work with a range of local companies to amp up their innovation processes and boost quality and productivity. More …
Wellington has won an international bid to host the 2012 Digital Earth Summit, which mayor Celia Wade-Brown says ties in perfectly with the city's bid to be recognised as a ‘creative digital capital’. More …
Think the annual arts fest in the Nevada desert is nothing more than a week-long bacchanal? Think again – Fast Company's E.B. Boyd explains what we can learn from its execution. More …
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We Can Create kicks off tomorrow bringing you two days of creative inspiration by way of graphics, fashion, animation, illustration, motion graphics, typography and sound design (and that's just for starters). If you haven't managed to buy a ... More …
News the government has introduced new environmental legislation governing offshore mineral exploration and extraction in the exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelf has failed to find favour with some groups, while others have said it provides needed certainty over ... More …
Bus shelters aren’t ordinarily much to look at, but the new additions to K’ Road, unveiled earlier this week at a dawn ceremony, offer up a bit of an artistic twist. The original 1970s shelters have been replaced by ... More …
When Christchurch City Council released its draft Central City Plan a couple of weeks back, sustainability was revealed as a core component in the rebuild and in a follow-on to that pledge, the New Zealand Green Building Council has announced ... More …
As far as universities go, the University of Waikato has been making a determined effort to adopt more sustainable measures. Last year its student centre became only the second educational building in New Zealand to receive a 5 Green Star ... More …
Snow enthusiasts: how would real-time detailed stats on your ski and board runs help you sharpen those moves? More …