Room by room, you can transform your own home to become more liveable and far healthier, both to the occupants and the environment. Over the next 10 months Element embarks on a step-by-step guide to a great home. You’ve taken … Read more
Let’s look at our housing health if we want to resolve the problems with indoor air quality and New Zealand’s chronic respiratory ills. New Zealand now has a robust body of national evidence about the health benefits of warmer, drier homes … Read more
Despite best efforts to cut down on water usage in the home, a new Australian study has found our biggest contribution to water waste is as consumers of clothing, food and electricity. When purchased by people within a household, they contribute a massive 94 … Read more
With the cost of heating your hot water making up two-thirds of your electricity bill, hot water heat pumps are a great option. As the co-owner of a thinly insulated weatherboard home with a young family, heating and its cost … Read more
Kiwi-mum Greer Robson-Kirk is supporting Persil, to inspire New Zealanders to take actions every day in a bid to halve the environmental impact of doing laundry by 2020. Robson-Kirk is “extremely excited” about being involved in a project that has … Read more
Designed in Auckland, the Blunt umbrella’s ‘radial tensioning system’ creates an unflappable, aerodynamic weather canopy proven to work in winds up to Force 12 (117 km/h). So now there’s no need to bin your brolly every time a gust of … Read more
The Bounce lampshade from designer David Trubridge comes with the weight of a serious thinker’s design philosophy behind it. He is unapologetic about consumerism: “There is only Good Design or Bad Design – if design is not actively trying to … Read more
Sink into this bad boy; the opulent, classic style of the Chelsea chair in vintage leather from Halo furniture. Classic design infused with a modern spirit sums up the Halo philosophy, along with protection of forests in Asia, where the … Read more
Recently Purex toilet paper became the only New Zealand roll to sport the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) mark, which means the paper is sourced from well managed, sustainable forests and includes the entire supply chain from raw material to shelf. … Read more