One reason I am beginning to obsess over Kiwisaver is that I have begun to think forward to what may be the most important civic responsibility that I have to New Zealand in the future.
Month: August 2018
How food co-ops are changing habits around plastic bag use
Given the ‘plastic bag revolution’, one interesting side effect that I’ve noticed around belonging to an organic food co-op is that the process of belonging to the co-op seems automatically to reduce the quantity of plastic bags that I and other co-op members consume on a weekly basis.
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One indirect way we can cut down on plastic bags
I was watching Seven Sharp the other night and Jeremy Wells and Hilary Barry were weighing up the relative inefficiency of reusable bags. This is well trodden ground in terms of environmental irony – the idea that one would have to use a reusable 170 times in order to make an actual reduction in one’s impact.
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Thinking through the impact of Kiwisaver fees
My new habit of contributing $2 of my own cash to Kiwisaver per week has opened my eyes to the long term cost of tolerating Kiwisaver fees.
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