Community engagement
Idealog wants your views on good - and bad - design
For our upcoming Design Issue, which is focused on the idea of 'decisions with intent', we’re asking the Idealog community to share some examples of when that intent has led to something great, and when it's failed dismally.
Christchurch's Rad Bikes makes a move
Christchurch's Rad Bikes has moved to a new site on the corner of Cashel St and High St.
Ask, share, give – the new face of e-commerce?
The saying ‘sharing is caring’ makes up the essence of one Aucklander’s social experiment – a website that gives away goods and services for free.
Bucky Box gets onside with local growers
A fresh new Kiwi startup is out to help the local food movement by taking admin hassles out of the equation so farmers can spend more time growing their tomatoes and less time sorting out receipts.
Building
UPDATED: Clean Energy Centre explores possible Taupo off-grid housing community
Taupo could be in for a new eco-sustainable housing community, reshaping the way houses receive heat, electricity, water, and use wastewater.
Green among the vines
Waipara Valley winemakers are reclaiming some of the diverse native vegetation once lost to the thousands of hectares of grapes. By Amanda Cropp.
Hit the big time
Got the mid-winter blues, stuck in a rut, don't know where your life is going? Don't worry: this could be Your Big Year. A worldwide competition that's part of the UK's Global Entrepreneurship Week in November, Your Big Year's extremely lucky winner will embark on a 12-month, all-expenses-paid tour of the world, meeting celebrities and entrepreneurs, learning new skills and rolling up their sleeves for some volunteer work. Attend a conference in New York, take a limo ride in Vegas, learn photography in Africa, scuba dive in Australia, teach English in Ecuador, visit the Taj Mahal ... The aim is to encourage global citizenship and social responsibility through entrepreneurship. Whatever: it would sure beat surfing the net, watching telly and wondering how long till Labour Weekend.
Architecture
Waterfront attractions announced in a bid to make the waterfront more, er, attractive.
The cultural and social heart of Auckland’s waterfront is set to beat fiercely by mid-2011, with the expected completion of five new attractions in Wynyard Quarter.
Tuneful transport
A nifty way to get people to take an alternative route.
