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New Zealand government today has issued a law, forcing the retailers to only import bulbs that meet new efficiency standards or face fines of up to $10,000 as of October 2009.
Here’s the link to the article.
The ultimate goal is to reduce the energy consumption of New Zealand by 20% (!) by 2015.
Here’s another article on [...]
Filed under: energy, government policy | Tagged: light bulbs, New Zealand | 5 Comments »
A major fault of neo-classical economics is that it does not consider the externality costs of waste products. New Zealand is currently in the process of passing an emission trading bill to address this issue to encourage sustainable development. The latest amendments to the bill is described at http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0806/S00282.htm and appears to have already incented [...]
Filed under: ecological tax reform, government policy | Tagged: emissions trading, New Zealand | 1 Comment »
Hello!!!
Browsing on the net I have found the “zero waste” web side from New Zealand http://www.zerowaste.co.nz/, in there we can find a lot of interesting information about what zero waste is, also what we can do about it…Moreover, they publish a monthly magazine and in the December’s one where we can find diverse information [...]
Filed under: government policy, industrial ecology | Tagged: New Zealand, recycling, waste management | 1 Comment »
