Tag: Inflation friendly

This tag is for ideas that have the effect of reducing your long term cost base and exposure to inflation.

How Day & Night ICPs Allow for Strategic Power Use

The dry winter has resulted in low levels of hydroelectric energy generation, forcing NZ to rely more on other energy sources, in turn forcing the wholesale price of energy through the roof. The full effect of this will be felt over the next few months as energy retailers start to pass on their additional costs to households and businesses.

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Why Gold is Green: How Adopting the Gold Standard in NZ Would Reduce Carbon Emissions

If we are serious about reducing our national carbon emissions, one of the things we must do is switch from a floating currency to a currency tied to the value of gold.

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Grow enough vegetables to feed your family every day of the growing season

When planning this article, I started by asking myself such questions as “how many onions does a typical adult eat each season” and “how much margin do I need to allow for yield problems such as pest control, weeds, poor watering etc” and finally “what percentage of adults actually eat onions”. Needless to say it was a very calculator-heavy method of divining the required yield for a standard household garden, and at the end of the day totally unreliable because the vegetable needs would vary heavily depending on the individual dietary preferences of each member of the household.

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Make your groceries go 20% further using a home made stock recipe

Stock is one of the cornerstones of our civilisation, yet few households actually regularly make it part of their routine to create the stuff, preferring instead to harvest the supermarket shelves and pay up to $4 a litre for the privilege. Little attention has in fact been paid to the how much a regular stock habit can save you, as well as nourishing yourself and your family and making your grocery budget stretch further.

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