new zealand links
These links have been researched by
Organic Baby. Sorry we are unable to provide reciprocal links on these
pages. Please visit
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CarPool NZ:
The CarPool NZ
site is available nationwide and is designed to simply help
people share rides around New Zealand. Great concept but
exercise caution!
Consumer Build Online:
Consumer Build Online is NZ's Independent Resource for Building. Renovating and Maintaining Homes.
The 'Green' homes page has some useful information and links for building or renovating in an environmentally friendly way.
Consumer Online:
NZ Consumer magazine is published monthly, providing independent consumer information on products in the marketplace.
They review all types of products (rarely organic or eco friendly) but
they do review baby food, baby equipment and the like, so it's a good magazine to keep on eye on.
Check out Consumer online.
(search on Kids and Family)
Note: to view the articles you must be a
subscriber or you can order a single report online.Ecobob:
Ecobob is a web site that provides users with an easy way of accessing information on environmentally friendly living such as profiles of eco houses, a listing of businesses providing eco living products and services, a range of information articles on eco living and an online community for people to share ideas and connect on eco living topics.
(The name Ecobob is derived from the word ‘eco’, an abbreviation for ‘ecologically friendly’ and the acronym ‘bob’ which stands for ‘best of both’). EcoBob's philosophy is that it is possible to have ‘the best of both worlds’ in terms of living in harmony and balance with our environment while still enjoying the comforts of technology and modern living.
Ecojunkmail.com
Ecojunkmail aims
to address the current trend in catalogue/junkmail in our letterboxes. The
average household receives approximately 2kgs of catalogue/junkmail in their
letterbox a month and although we are recycling, it is not enough.
Ecojunkmail aims to
slow the process before it gets to the point of even cutting down our trees
or harming our environment.
Ecojunkmail have
approached numerous retailers to do their part and asked them to make a
contribution by printing less catalogues, choosing sustainable resources,
biodegradable products or other initiatives.
Embrace:
Embrace is a web site set up by Anitra Carr. Anitra has a Ph.D. in Clinical Biochemistry, ten years biomedical research experience both in N.Z. and the U.S., and has published in numerous international peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Anitra set up Embrace primarily to share information and products that she felt important and of potential benefit to women and their families.
Check out the Articles section which includes many useful articles on Home Birth, Natural Parenting, Health & Nutrition and Herbal Medicine.
Freecycle.org:
Freecycle is a worldwide movement that aims to connect people in communities, so they can get rid of (or collect) stuff that would otherwise end up at the landfill.
You can join online but you need to set up (or use an existing) Yahoo account.
also The Waste Exchange is a NZ web site where you can list your surplus business waste or waste "wanted".
Great for recycling if you need bulk bubble wrap, packaging materials etc.
www.nothrow.co.nz.
Home Birth Association:
Home Birth Aotearoa provides women and whanau with information about the home birth option.
Services available throughout NZ can include: information (library, newsletters), coffee groups, antenatal classes and birth pool hire.
Use this link to find your local Home Birth Association.
NZ Earth Building Association:
NZ Earth Building Association is a group run on a voluntary basis to promote the art and science of Earth Building.
Nourish.net.nz:
Nourish is a NZ shopping site selling everything eco friendly from body care products to household cleaners.
On the
Nourish web site, select Health Services to check out their series of health articles.
Organic Explorer:
Organic Explorer is the green travel guide to New Zealand. It is a guide/directory of eco-accommodation, organic cafes, food supplies and environmental tourism activities for the free independent traveller.
Organic Pathways:
Organic Pathways are an online directory of organics in NZ.
Check out the
Garden and
Household sections.
Soil & Health Association of NZ:
Soil & Health publish a monthly magazine 'Organic NZ' available through booksellers (or second hand on
Trade Me).
Check out the past issues on the Organic NZ web site (two articles per issue can be viewed online).
Past issues can be ordered online.
The Safefood Campaign:
The Safe Food Campaign is a nationwide organisation which campaigns for safer, healthier food.
They provide consumers with information so that they can make up their own minds about what is safe to eat and lobby government to make our food safer.
Check out
Organics,
Pesticides,
Irradiation,
Additives and
Genetic Modification.
NZ Green Party:The Green Party of Aotearoa (NZ) are a political party committed to ecological sustainability. Read their charter.
Their web site library contains many interesting articles and press releases.
Check out the Safefood section.