Building and Technology

Organic NZ Magazine: January/February 2015 Section: Building and technology Author: Rachel Rose   Part 2: Clean and safe     Typically, how clean is the rainwater being drunk in rural New Zealand? Often, not very. Stan Abbott heads up the Roof Water Harvesting Centre at Massey University. In 2006 Stan and his colleagues tested roof…

Organic NZ Magazine: November/December 2014 Section: Features Author: Rachel Rose Part 1 Water is a precious resource, the stuff of life itself. Around the world, water aquifers are drying up, groundwater is being contaminated and irrigation schemes are stressing the river systems that span continents. Yet here in New Zealand, we usually take water for…

Organic NZ Magazine: July/August 2009 Section: Building Author: Philippa Jamieson Philippa Jamieson investigates a new initiative to grow and use versatile, hardwood eucalypts Do you want to plant a woodlot that will give you durable wood for farm posts and building, give you a return in as little as 16–20 years, as well as sequestering…