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The Commerce Commission has stemmed a growing tide of complaints about daily deal and group buying websites with a proactive approach to educating the websites about consumer law.Daily deal websites offer goods or services at a discounted price until the pre-specified number of sales is reached or the day ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Computing, Fairtrade, Industry & Business, Innovation, Lifestyle & Behavior, Retail
Apple is regarded as one of the most successful companies on the planet, and we queue to buy their new devices. But earlier this year the company has also been pinned as the worst company for pollution and "occupational health hazard incidents" at its facilities in China.Many large, multinational ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August 2011, about Air Quality, Branding, Children and Families, Computing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Pollution
Official Information Act Documents passed to Greenpeace reveal that New Zealand has exported at least 50,000 tonnes of toxic battery waste to the Phillipines and South Korea since the end of 2008.Greenpeace believes that serious question marks exist about whether these exports are legal under existing treaties which ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Computing, Consumerism, Politics & Government, Pollution, Transparency
American cities are well ahead of ours when it comes to taking action on unnecessary and unwanted phone books. its interesting to look at two ways they have made this happen in the US.Mayor Ed Lee in San Francisco signed a ban on the unsolicited delivery of the Yellow ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in July 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Advertising, Children and Families, Computing, Sustainability, waste (1 comment)
Kiwis are putting their technological prowess to good social use as the finalists in the upcoming World Summit Awards (WSA) demonstrate. The awards honour excellence in new media and e-content creation, with extra kudos heaped on projects that show the benefits of information and communication technology for the development of ... keep reading
Written by Celsias Team in April 2011, about Computing, Design, Innovation, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Science (1 comment)
A new energy efficient colocation data centre in Christchurch is aiming to reduce costs and create a cooperative-style marketplace for ICT businesses. The Colocation Company director Jamie Cairns says power-saving cooling technology has made it much more affordable for users to locate servers and ICT equipment at the data centre ... keep reading
Written by Celsias team in June 2010, about Computing, Energy Saving
Blood Diamond wasn't just a bloody good movie. And the same sad story is being played out again, without Leonardo Di Caprio and friends, this time over the minerals which help power up our wired up lifestyle. BusinessGreen.com has been talking to major buyers in the electronics world ... keep reading
Written by Celsias team in May 2010, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Computing, Consumerism, Economics, Industry & Business, Poverty & Development, War
When a big company designs a new logo trumpeting its sustainability credentials you have to admire the courage, as this tends to instantly put it under the microscope – Beyond Petroleum anyone? Thankfully, the new insignia being used by Japanese-based printer and imaging hardware firm Brother has something to back it ... keep reading
Written by Andy Kenworthy in May 2010, about Computing, Consumerism, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Recycling
It’s been seven glorious days since we threw open the doors to the reloaded celsias.co.nz. We’ve had a nice refreshing row about the ETS in which our publisher had his hair insulted, we uploaded a dirty movie and the world’s most sustainable loo paper. Make ... keep reading
Written by Andy Kenworthy in May 2010, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Celebrities, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Computing, Consumerism, Deforestation, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, ETS, Events, Finance & Money, Food, Genetic Modification, Global Dimming, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Law, Lifestyle & Behavior, Logging, marketing, Media, Nuclear, Organic, Permaculture, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Smart Growth, Solar, Transition Towns, Transport, Travel, War, Water, Weather (1 comment)
For those of you who just got your first Celsias Weekly in your inbox. Here's why we are careful not to fill your life with crap. To "celebrate" Earth Day Corel offered me up to 40% off their computer programmes. If anyone can tell me the meaningful link between ... keep reading
Written by Andy Kenworthy in April 2010, about Computing, Consumerism, Industry & Business
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