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Wheat Free Biscuits For Summer Entertaining

jones weekly food column

This week at jones the grocer, I came across a tasty versatile biscuit recipe using Polenta. I thought anyone on a wheat-free diet may enjoy this one!

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Green And Gorgeous Xmas Treats

You may be in denial but New Zealand is just moments away from being drowned in Xmas frivolity. Love or loath the merry months, Christmas shops are opening, lights are being untangled and credit cards are stretching and flexing ready for a strenuous workout.

Some of the EGL team have already begun to tick off Xmas lists while others are in the aforementioned denial camp. As a member of the latter category I thought this was the perfect time to look into fab, green gift ideas that serve not only as gorgeous, thoughtful pressies but as an introduction for loved ones to beauty products that are both gentle on your skin and on the environment.

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Kiwis Going Carbon Neutral

In her first major speech to Parliament in 2007, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark laid down an ambitious plan of making New Zealand the world’s first greenhouse gas (GHG)-neutral country.

Among measures Clark announced include a plan that clean-burning biofuels must account for 3.4 percent of fuel sold in the country by 2012 to replace gasoline and diesel, that all 47 government agencies should be using energy efficient transport, recycled paper and environmentally-friendly products and buildings, and a campaign to help households save energy and cut waste.

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