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		<title>Volvo Ocean Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I was lucky to be able to head down to the Auckland Viaduct, joining the other 250,000 people who came through the week to check out the Volvo Ocean Race Village. It was a fantastic atmosphere and awesome to be able to get right up close to the boats as the crew were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Older is better? We&#8217;ll see.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Dee in Nelson. The email was equal parts enquiring and venting. Like many, Dee was expressing her frustration at what appears to be a built in obsolescence to the appliances we buy for our homes. A few years ago friends of ours had their heater, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stock with bumps and bruises means a great deal for you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I had a job merchandising products in supermarkets. It amazed me the amount of stock that would arrive, or become, damaged on it&#8217;s way from manufacturer to customer. The standard practice was for the retailer to return the product for a refund, whereby the manufacturer would destroy it. Considering the amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I hope like us you&#8217;re enjoying the signs that Spring is well and truly here! We&#8217;ve got lots of seeds planted which seem to get moved ten times a day; inside overnight, out into the sun in the morning, under the porch when it starts bucketing down, out into the sun&#8230;good ol&#8217; Auckland weather! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renovation rubbish &amp; the perils of buying second hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In stark contrast to our supermarket bag of rubbish from 2008, this week we filled a massive 60 litre council bag and sent it off to landfill! The culprit? Renovations! A couple of weeks ago we moved from our &#8216;apartment in the sky&#8217;, to the suburbs on the North Shore of Auckland. The term &#8216;slum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Umbrellas&#8230;yep, I&#8217;m really going to write about umbrellas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 02:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, while walking from the bus stop to work, I overheard an astute young high school student observe that umbrellas and wind don&#8217;t seem well matched. It was bucketing down at the time and his companion&#8217;s umbrella had just turned inside out. I have to admit, that it was with a certain amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re ditching the car!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 22:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been reading a book called; &#8216;What&#8217;s Mine Is Yours: The rise of collaborative consumption&#8217;. In it, Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers outline the increasing phenomenon of sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. Not being ones to miss out on the action we&#8217;ve decided to jump on board and give it a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-consumers, keep shouting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 10:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not have heard of Unilever, but there is a fairly high chance you&#8217;ve used or purchased one of their products. Unilever is a British / Dutch multinational company which, according to Wikipedia, owns over 400 brands, employs 160,000 staff and had a revenue of around 44 billion dollars in 2010. In NZ we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 03:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had a phone call from Mary in Christchurch who was querying what to do with some spent AA batteries she had lying around. It inspired me to update the information in the Guide on the subject, and reproduce it here&#8230; The main issue with batteries is the heavy metals contained within them. Disposable, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ&#8217;s Best &amp; Worst Packaging Awards 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fantastic idea! The crew at Wanaka Wastebusters have come up with a way for folk to nominate the best, and more importantly, worst, examples of packaging in NZ, at unpackit.org.nz. So, nows the time to vent all your frustration with overpackaged fruit wraps, (what&#8217;s wrong with fresh fruit?), and eggplants on styrofoam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All fired up for 2011!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, one of my favourite books, (and probably a strong influence on my adult worldview), was The Sneetches by Dr Seuss. The book covers issues such as consumerism, prejudice, and discrimination, but the reason I mention it here is for the purposes of a simple analogy. In the book, there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long 2010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, what a year! When the year began neither Waveney or I had any idea what it held, as we loaded up the car and moved north to Auckland from our hometown, Christchurch. After a few false starts, it is ending with both of us working in paid employment we love, and a new and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat lunch then brush your teeth Rubbish Free!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we received our latest shipment of bamboo toothbrushes, and we&#8217;ve now got three types in the Store! The original brush has been rebranded as &#8216;soft&#8217; and is joined by a &#8216;child soft&#8217; version with a shorter handle. The third brush is a &#8216;medium&#8217; bristle brush for those who like a bit more firmness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love your Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the &#8216;Love Your Coast&#8217; campaign is kicking off with 1500 volunteers heading to Rangitoto today to pick up rubbish along the coastline and is supported by Jack Johnson. The campaign is aimed at cleaning rubbish from Aotearoa&#8217;s coastline as well as raising awareness of the huge impact rubbish is having on our coastline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arghhh&#8230;.aphids!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juliet&#8217;s gard&#8230;sorry&#8230;Waveney&#8217;s garden, has aphids! Who knew that aphids could reach the 33rd floor, but there they are, crawling all over the lettuces in particular and having a good ol&#8217; time. Apparently aphids are spread by the wind, so I guess that explains them finding Nirvana up here, and they are one of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone got some spare sheep kidney fat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m fighting a cold. I woke with a sore throat and as the morning has progressed it has been joined by a slightly runny nose, slightly achy muscles, and a slightly fuzzy brain. It&#8217;s like a kind of scale, after &#8216;slightly&#8217; comes &#8216;moderately&#8217; and then it peaks with &#8216;really&#8217;. So, four vitamin C tablets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Juliet Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the creativity real estate agents show when listing properties, and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed to hear that our balcony is affectionately called a &#8216;Juliet Balcony&#8217;. Presumably, its because there is just enough room for Juliet to stand on to call down to her lover. If he did manage to scale the 33 floors to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s some challenges for you &#8211; with prizes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jules is the co-ordinator of the Lyttelton Time Bank and she has issued the Rubbish Free Community with a challenge! Every year the Time Bank helps with two street festivals, one is summer and the other in winter. We have thoroughly enjoyed the winter one when living in Christchurch as there is an emphasis on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good, Better, Best!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This whole rubbish free thing is a bit of a roller coaster! During the weekend we went down to our local Farmer&#8217;s Market and bought spinach, bok choi and asparagus. We would&#8217;ve bought a whole lot more but all that great organic food was wrapped up snug in plastic packaging&#8230;arghhh! So, the next step there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubbish free on the 33rd floor!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t mean to be extreme, honest! But after having spent the last two months living amongst beautiful native bush and birds in the Waitakeres, we&#8217;ve now moved into a 34sqm apartment, on the 33rd floor, in the Auckland CBD! It has one bedroom, and what is affectionately called a &#8216;Juliet balcony&#8217; &#8211; it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mmmmm&#8230;salami&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the most commonly asked question, in relation to our trying to live rubbish free, is; &#8216;what is the most difficult part&#8217;. Up until now I&#8217;ve generally answered either, &#8216;being prepared for spontaneity, such as the impromptu bbq on a Sunday afternoon&#8217;, or &#8216;nachos&#8217;. But that was because the real answer was much too difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just give me some space!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since moving to Auckland, Waveney and I&#8217;ve been housesitting which has been heaps of fun. However, with summer approaching we&#8217;re keen to get away ourselves during the weekends so are now looking for a place to rent. We&#8217;ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about the best place to live considering where we work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I have a bag thanks&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I, (Waveney), just popped down the road to get some rolls for lunch.  I went to Bakers Delight and, as is habit, took my own bag.  I asked the teenage girl serving if she would mind using my bag.  She looked utterly confused, like I had just asked her if she minded using a can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New packaging for our toothbrushes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are wrapt to announce a change in the&#8230;ah&#8230;wrapping&#8230;of our bamboo toothbrushes! The brushes are now contained within a light paper wrapper and inserted into an unbleached cardboard box. The pack of 12 also come in an unbleached cardboard box. The packaging can either be recycled with your paper recycling, composted, however, I find the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Weekend in Nelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew &#38; Waveney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its not every Sunday evening that I think, &#8216;well that was a cracker of weekend&#8217;, but it was this one! I&#8217;ve just got back from spending the weekend in sunny Nelson, which while being the obvious couplet, is also extremely true &#8211; they predicted rain each day of the 10th Annual Nelson EcoFest and on [...]]]></description>
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