The Unexpected Plup
Close your eyes and imagine you are about to purchase a bottle of water. As you select your bottle of water, what does it look like? Probably something like one of these bottled water options: Now imagine as you go to select your bottle, you notice something new, something different: Plup is also bottled water, [...]
I Need Some Space
April 1981 - Living in the USA, the nine year old boy from New Zealand was obsessed with space lego. He watched on television as the Space Shuttle Columbia took flight for the first time and dreamed of one day becoming an astronaut. Like the generation before him, who had witnessed the first manned space flight [...]
I don’t eat organic lentils but I did vote green
On Saturday 8 November, just four days after US citizens voted in Obama in as their new President, New Zealanders too went to the polls to vote in their preferred Government for the coming three years. Now I generally don’t consider myself to be an organic lentil eating, vege patch growing, tree hugger. However, this [...]
Ripped off by the Discount
Even at 4pm on Saturday afternoon Borders was packed (okay, so I’m exaggerating just a little – this is Wellington, New Zealand after all). Pushing our 6 month old boy in the buggy in front of me, I slowly navigated the isles, while my wife and daughter sat reading books in the children’s area. Why [...]
The Pig Ate My Plate
According to a recent Time Small Business article The Dish on Green Disposables Americans use an estimated trillion disposable plates and utensils every year, with each disposable plate’s useful life averaging just five minutes. Add to this the fact that disposable plastic plates do not decompose – they sit in landfills for hundreds of years. [...]
You Pay Attention to Unexpected Ideas
Amazon Uncontacted Tribe In May of this year, we all saw the pictures of one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous tribes. The pictures and associated message spread rapidly around the world on television, internet, and newspaper. The pictures were taken and released by Funai – Brazil’s Department of Indian Affairs. If Funai was [...]