Retail

These links are to people selling environmental services, environmentally friendly products, etc. We also have companion pages on Corporate Ethics, Ethical Investment, and Restaurants.

No meaning should be read into sites being listed here—they’re just ones generally considered ‘green’ or with a green theme. Likewise, an exclusion does not necessarily indicate the opposite. If you have some time you could volunteer to design and carry out a thorough survey, please contact us!

Categories on this page: Energy Efficiency, Food, Genetically Engineered, Food, Organic, General, Recycling, Renewable Energy, and Transport.

Energy Efficiency

EECA Renewable Energy Database

Search for details about organisations, suppliers of technology, and suppliers of products & services.

Energy Efficiency on Resources Page

See the Energy Efficiency category on our Resources page for information about energy efficiency.

Food, Genetically Engineered

Corporate Ethics Page

See our Corporate Ethics page for organic food labels, GE-free food databases, etc.

Food, Genetically Engineered, on Resources Page

See the Genetically Engineered Food category on our Resources page for information about GE food.

Food, Organic

Commonsense Organics

Organic food from around New Zealand including fruits, vegetables, and meats; all labelled according to its ‘organicness’.

Half a block from New World Chaffers Street, free parking on forecourt.

Phone: 384 3314
Address: 260 Wakefield Street, Central City

Gipps Street Butchery

Stockists of organic Murrellen Pork.

Phone: 476 9584
Address: 8 Gipps Street, Karori

Pōneke Organics

Full range of organic fruit and vegetables, plus a selection of quality dried goods, also ready-made boxes delivered to your door.

Phone: 586 5918
Address: 338 Jackson Street, Petone

Stir Friday Organic Vegetable Co-op

Weekly delivery of cheap organic vegetables.

Contact: Katy Brown
Phone: 385 6728
Fax: 385 7545
Address: Top floor, Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington
Postal Address: PO Box 11 964, Wellington

Trenance Organic Farm

An organically run farm commercially producing blueberries and free range eggs. When open provides Pick Your Own blueberries and The Blueberry Barn provides ‘cafe’ style blueberry baked goods and ice cream as well as a chance to view the operations side of the blueberry business. Also sells in season produce such as apples, plums, emu eggs, and honey. Visitors are encouraged to bring their togs and picnics for relaxing after picking.

Open to the public 7 days in January from 10–6, and weekends ’till May. 4 minutes from SH2 towards Waikanae.

Contact: John
Phone: 526 6788
E-Mail:
Address: 1229 Akatarawa Road,

Corporate Ethics Page

See our Corporate Ethics page for organic food labels, GE-free food databases, etc.

Organic Food on Directory Page

See the Food category on our Directory page for organic food groups.

Organic Food on Resources Page

See the Food, Organic category on our Resources page for information about organic food.

Restaurants Page

See our Restaurants page for eating establishments offering organic food, etc.

General

Body Shop, Lambton Quay

Phone: 499 7166
Address: Capital on the Quay, 260 Lambton Quay, Central City

Body Shop, Lower Hutt

Phone: 566 6833
Address: Queensgate Mall, Queensgate, Lower Hutt

Cartridge Refills Ltd

Customer orientated company that supplies refills for inkjet printers: You can either send them the cartridges to refill, or buy a kit and do it yourself (requires some dexterity).

Phone: 04 293 1555 (note the 04 prefix for the Kapiti Coast)
Fax: 04 293 2750
Postal Address: PO Box 391, Waikanae

Compost Toilet and Greywater Recycling Manual

Site in Australia advertising a composting toilet and greywater recycling manual.

eco store

An Auckland based retail store and mail order company whose primary aim is to make it easy for you to use authentic green products in and around your home. Even includes books and toys. Free catalogue.

ecoseeds limited

A mail-order and retail seed supplier. Their seeds are non hybrid and some are Demeter.

Contact: Dave Treadwell
Phone: 976 4448
E-Mail:
Address: 13 Awarua Street, Ngaio

epenz

New Zealand’s distributor of biodegradable pens.

Evergreen Soil Conservation Limited

Their hydroseeding services assist with soil dust suppression and they offer a straw mulch service for sediment control. Their erosion control mat (the Evergreen Bio Mat) is suitable for difficult sites and along with conventional grass seeding they also provide a native plant landscaping service.

Hemp Store, The

Renamed from Hemporium N.Z. Ltd and now emphasising smokers’ paraphernalia but still selling products made from environmentally friendly hemp.

Phone: 385 2907
Address: 151 Cuba Street, Central City

Last Footwear Company, The

‘One of New Zealand’s most unique and interesting companies. Definitely an original New Zealand company with a very real environmental ethic and a mind of its own, we excel at (predominantly) custom making very durable, very high quality footwear and leathergoods that fit to match individual idiosyncrasies so damn well that the recipient is likely to burst into song! Not just style with substance, but service with savvy’.

Address: 41 Cuba Street, Wellington City

Moontime Aotearoa

Concerned with women’s health and wellbeing, and promoting a positive image of menstruation in our society. Send name, address, and a SAE for a free catalogue—100% cotton washable menstrual cloths, information, and menstrual support.

Phone: 03 545 8505
Fax: 03 545 8505
E-Mail:
Postal Address: PO Box 836, Whakat, Nelson

Nature’s Backyard

A new type of gardening service offering mainly native plantings and restoration work and organic food (and other useful plant) gardens. They do design and construction based on permaculture design and are qualified ecologists and geographers.

Phone: 934 9798
E-Mail:
Address: 2/57A Mortimer Terrace, Aro Valley

New Zealand Possum Products

This site is designed to make it easy for people to find out information about possum products and why people should buy them. You can also enter the Uniquely NZ Shops and Auctions to purchase possum products from an increasing range of shops.

Organically Yours

See ecoseeds.

Trade Aid, Petone

This New Zealand non-for-profit organisation has been fairly and ethically trading products from around the world for 25 years.

Phone: 568 7698
Address: 21 Jackson Street, Petone

Trade Aid, Upper Hutt

This New Zealand non-for-profit organisation has been fairly and ethically trading products from around the world for 25 years.

Phone: 528 9383
Address: 157 Main Street, Upper Hutt

Trade Aid, Wellington

This New Zealand non-for-profit organisation has been fairly and ethically trading products from around the world for 25 years.

Phone: 385 4498
Address: 74 Cuba Mall, Central City

Recycling

Computer Access New Zealand Trust (CANZ)

Recycling business computers for schools and the community. An initiative of the 2020 Communications Trust, supported by the Ministry of Education.

Phone: 479 8636
Fax: 476 7181
E-Mail:

FERN (Friendly, Enonomic, Recycling, Nous)

Total recycing solution for Wellington region including the inner city. Choose up to 4 different colours of wheeliebins: Green for paper, Red for bottles, Blue for shredding, and Yellow for all other rubbish. These colours are used internationally, including the Olympics.

Phone: 568 5521
E-Mail:

Renewable Energy

Able Solar Ltd

A privately owned and operated New Zealand company specialising in renewable energy systems utilising Solar and wind powered generating equipment, storage batteries, and control equipment.

Their mission is to supply High quality products and service at affordable prices where possible, the staff are committed to this growing industry and use solar power everyday in their homes and office in Waitakere City.

Contact: Graeme McIntosh
Phone: 09 837 2211
Fax: 09 837 2212
E-Mail:
Address: Unit B, 13 Collard Place, Henderson, Auckland
Postal Address: PO Box 79-163, Royal Heights, Auckland

New Zealand Solar Industry Association (SIA)

Represents the collective interests of manufacturers, importers, and installers of solar water heating systems, and provides a single point of contact to the industry.

This website provides information on New Zealand suppliers and installers of solar water heating systems.

Peacock Technologies Ltd

‘For all your solar panel, wind power, small hydropower, and low voltage accessory requirements’. Includes product fact sheets and pricing.

Power Options New Zealand

Small commercial web site selling alternative energy sources.

PowerFlow

Applies renewable energy technology to the solution of energy requirements for rural and developing communities. ‘If you are looking for assistance with a renewable energy system, particularly micro hydro, then you have found the right people to talk to!’

Reid Technology

Specialises in the design, supply, and installation of all aspects of alternative energy, including Solar Modules, Regulators, Batteries, Inverters and Inverter Chargers, Petrol and Diesel Generators, Energy Efficient Refrigeration and Lighting, and Water Pumping and Wind Generators.

Contact: Paul Sands
Phone: 09 489 8100
Fax: 09 489 8585
E-Mail:
Address: 3-5 Auburn Street, North Shore City
Postal Address: P.O. Box 33 1690, Takapuna

Solahart Industries Pty Ltd

As advertised in Greenpeace’s Solar Pioneers newsletters, this Australian based crowd has been manufacturing since 1905 and introduced their first solar water heater in 1953. Solahart is now a trans-national organisation operating in all continents.

Synergex Systems NZ Limited

Knowledgeable Auckland based crowd (but with contractors around the country) specialising in solar heating.

Phone: 0800 769 377
E-Mail:

Thermocell

New Zealand’s foremost thermodynamics research, development, and production company; with expertise in solar energy, heat transfer solutions, heat-pipes, and energy efficiency.

E-Mail:

Renewable Energy on Links Page

See the Renewable Energy category on our Links page for sites of a more general nature.

Renewable Energy on Resources Page

See the Renewable Energy category on our Resources page for other sites of a more specific nature.

Transport

General Motor’s EV1 Electric Car

The next generation GM EV1 is a purpose-built electric vehicle with software upgrades, refined ride and handling, improvements in fit and finish, and new plush upholstery. For the first time, the EV1 offers two battery technologies: An advanced, high capacity lead acid, and an optional Nickel Metal Hydride.

Global Electric MotorCars, LLC (GEM)

Distinctive ovoid shaped vehicles for carrying 2 people. Street legal but more suited to amusement parks, golf courses, zoos, etc.

ZAP Power Systems

‘The leading manufacturer of electric bicycles, scooters, and other Zero Air Pollution vehicles’.

Transport on Directory Page

See the Transport category on our Directory page for groups involved in environmentally friendly methods of transport.

Transport on Resources Page

See the Transport category on our Resources page for information about environmentally friendly methods of transport.

List last updated 2007-01-27. New items in the preceding 30 days are (marked) as such. For suggestions or corrections, please contact the web master.

If Earth’s time were compressed into a single year, our ancestors would only have parted company with the chimpanzee at about two in the afternoon on the last day of that year. Modern humans would have evolved just 15–20 minutes before midnight. On this timescale, civilisation and agriculture are barely one minute old and the era of mass production and consumption is a mere second—so brief and unprecedented that its sustainability cannot be taken for granted, however ‘natural’ it may seem to us nowThe State of New Zealand’s Environment 1997