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Forest Lodge Orchard has taken out the Norwood Farming Efficiency Award and the NZFET Innovation Award at the Otago Farm Environment Awards. "Technology and sustainability are the hallmarks of this Cromwell orchard that has grown its harvest exponentially since being developed from bare ground in 2019 ... Right from the start, owners Mike and Rebecca Casey, and Euan and Rachel White have been striving to electrify all orchard methods and equipment – a goal they have achieved. They have an electric tractor, have electrified the orchard’s irrigation pump, installed New Zealand’s first electric frost–fighting fans and are developing an electric foliage sprayer. In 2022, they set themselves a challenge of going completely fossil-fuel-free in the orchard. This will potentially save about $50k per year in energy bills and continues to drive greater creativity in finding or developing alternative approaches."
Read moreDownload the document hereWho's down with LNG? Certainly not us. And most of the experts aren't, either. That's why we’ve signed a letter alongside a number of other organisations asking the Auditor-General to launch an inquiry into the plan and the process.
Read moreDownloadMore solar on schools is definitely something worth celebrating and energy minister Simeon Brown and education minister Erica Stanford ventured to Te Papapa School in Auckland to announce the 500 schools set to receive systems as part of the $30 million scheme. That's a good thing, but we hope it is just the start - not just for the number of schools, but also for the size of the systems being installed.
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