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If you know a little about the health benefits of manuka honey but want to know more, there's a new website to help you.
The New Zealand Honey Shop focuses on providing information as well as products, so that you can learn more about manuka honey, its healing properties, and that the properties of different manuka honey are not the same.
The website provides information about how to distinguish what honey the health benefit research is based on. Includes guidance about how different types of manuka honey can help with digestive problems, wound care, burns, ulcers and more. With news, and links to some of the research, the site is a valuable honey information source.
The site has a huge range of Comvita honey to buy from their online shop. If you like to pamper yourself, they stock a range of honey based skin care. The Living Nature range is all natural and chemical and paraben free, using natural and wild crafted ingredients.
Both Comvita and Living Nature are well recognised in New Zealand for their sustainable business practices, with Comvita having won a peoples choice award for this in 2006.
Tags: honey health skin
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 Piccalilly was set up in 2006 by Hannah Evans, an ex-graduate of the
Royal College of Art. Hannah felt that there was a gap in the market
for bright and modern ethical clothing and wanted to prove that you
don?t have to compromise on style to care. Hannah spent much of 2006
sourcing suppliers and developing ranges for the launch of Piccalilly.
Piccalilly now work with a range of suppliers from a large Calcutta
based business who only use organic cotton, are fairtrade certified and
they employ over 200 people in full time employment.
Piccalilly also work with a number of very small family run businesses
who produce hand made products. These companies tend to use
conventional cotton as they don?t have access to the limited supplies
of organic cotton. Hannah places small repeat orders throughout the
year with these businesses and sends regular advances to enable these
suppliers to cash flow production of her garments.
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A Web site called CalFinder provides visitors from the USA with a range of very real
methods of installing green building techniques in your home, whether
you are renovating or building from scratch.
First, you should
choose exterior materials that will require minimal repainting and
waterproofing and that optimizes, or avoids, the use of wood. When
residing your home, take that opportunity to install rigid foam
insulation.
There are two types of
active solar heating retrofits: one is a solar hot water fluid
collector that heats a fluid that is circulated within them. The
other is an air collector that heats air for distribution to the
house with fans. In addition, photo voltaic panels with hundreds of
small silicon cells that collect the sun?s energy and change it
into electricity that can be used in the home.
In the attic, install a
radiant barrier on the underside of the roof, which will reduce heat
gains through the ceiling by 95%. In the basement, it?s
important to remedy wetness and mold issues before deciding to do
anything with that space. Then, add living area that fulfills your
family?s needs.
In the kitchen, you
should install facilities that make basic recycling simple to do on a
regular basis. A high performance shower head uses only 1 ? 1.5
gallons of water per shower, which is up to 60% less than is used in
a traditional showerhead. You should also repair or replace old
dripping faucets, update toilets to the low flow type, replace
dishwashers and clothes washers with the new, efficient Energy Star
models.
Amazingly, over 75,000
synthetic chemicals have been released into our atmosphere since
World War II. You should certainly avoid these chemicals in your
baby?s nursery. In order to accomplish this, make sure that the
nursery is painted with no VOC (volatile organic
compounds) paint and utilize solid wood flooring.
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More volunteers are heading for Africa
Kate Plummer, Marketing Manager at Acacia Adventure Holidays comments: ?We?ve seen a 20% increase over 2007 towards the charitable or volunteering aspects of our tours. We feel that the high profile campaigns for example, ?Live 8?, have had a real impact on the choices people make where holidays are concerned, and people readily identify with their musical icons who are highlighting issues relevant to Africa.
Ethical travellers
There?s a fairly even split between both sexes in terms of ethical
trips and this relates to singles, couples or groups of friends ? the
common denominator being that they want to give something back to the
host community they are visiting.?
?We?ve also coined the term for a new phenomenon in the market, that of
the ?mini-gap? ? where people want an alternative to the gap year that
offers a similar experience. Volunteering is sound option for this
group and while these adventurers might have been considering the
longer gap year option, knowing that we can package something similar,
on a value for money basis and in a shorter time frame often makes
sense whether the traveller is between studies or taking a break from
their career.?
Adventurers on the 8-day Tanzanian Trail itinerary now have the option
to participate in a further 6-day volunteering holiday. Travellers
will gain an insight into the Amani Project in Moshi ? a charity that
aims to help the growing number of street children and kids affected
with HIV/Aids. Day to day activities might involve helping the kids in
their lessons, assisting with odd jobs, labouring or working in the
home?s kitchens, but afternoons are free to explore the local area.
Participants can enjoy various
activities including, horse riding around the lower slopes of Mount
Kilimanjaro and swimming in the Kikuletwa Hot Springs (a location
which also doubles as a great picnic spot) or alternatively volunteers
can simply chill-out and take in the scenery from the NEW Coffee Tree
Hotel ? (no doubt taking it?s name from the fantastic locally produced
coffee) which offers first rate views of the mountain. Volunteers are
also free to spend their afternoons having an energetic kick about on
the makeshift football field with the kids, leaving the evening free to
check out the local bars and Moshi?s live entertainment. (?795pp +
local payment from ?304pp with year round weekly departures). The
price includes all tour highlights as listed on the website, transport,
road tolls and taxes, camping and cooking equipment, most meals,
services of tour leader and driver, transfers to and from the project
site and shared accommodation at the Amani project (based on two people
sharing). Excludes return international flight, visas, departure taxes,
transfers, and flexible local payment excursions.
Highlights on the 8-day Tanzanian Trail include, Lake Victoria, the Serengeti, the Olduvai Gorge and the Ngorongoro Crater.
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 A revolutionary new design for personal wind turbines wins top prize at the BSI Sustainability Design Awards .
Ben
Storan, a student graduating with an MA in Industrial Design
Engineering from the Royal College of Art (RCA), has been working for
the past year in conjunction with Imperial College to design an
affordable personal wind turbine suited to the urban environment.
The result is a unique design which uses vertical, rather than
traditional horizontal, rotation. This feature gives a slower
rotational speed, which allows the turbine to capture more energy from
turbulent air flow, common to urban environments. It also means
quieter operation. As a result, it is able to generate more energy than domestic models
currently on the market. Similarly sized existing personal wind
turbines claim to generate 1kW at a wind speed of 12 m/s, but typically
produce just 40% of what is claimed. Ben?s design should realistically
produce 3 times that (1.2kW) of those currently on the market. The clever vertical rotation design uses lightweight materials,
which means Ben?s turbine is more stable than other personal turbines
leading to better energy capture and making it is easier to install.
Speaking of winning the award and ?3,000 first prize, Ben says ?I?m
delighted to win such a prestigious award. Growing up in the windy
west of Ireland I?ve always been acutely aware of the huge potential in
harnessing such a free, clean and renewable source of energy which,
along with a spinning clothes line, gave me the idea in the first
place.?
Whilst still at the early stages of development, Ben hopes that his design will be in production in the not too distant future.
Tags: wind energy home urban design
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