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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 40m

I played making a reel of tulips extravaganza, another week or two of this beauty, enjoy!

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Beautiful Gardens of Wānaka Insta or Facebook are full of amazing garden beauty, right now, in the gardens of the tours, often ours.

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 49m

People need nature no more than 300m from them. We need nature in the cities, not outside, so urban development must keep every tree and green field around the built environment to develop generous green belts, along with water and infrastructures. And build beyond.
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'Nature should run through a city the same way that water does'

Baroness Kathy Willis talks about the importance of green and blue spaces in cities.

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 1h

So nice to see Jane💕, her presence is stunning. What a precious time for you, and the dog! Thank you for sharing🙏
What a good idea. I hope more people will send their photos with her, what a tribute. I don't have any, sorry.
I love to see that happening.

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 3h

A few photos of yesterday's guided garden tour to brighten your day.

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 3h

I understand from this graph that bikes are the most efficient way to go around. And they are low carbon too.

I certainly love mine and use it often🚴‍♀️

Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 12h

We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 3h

"Blown away!" Exclaimed my guest sitting in the van after visiting the 4th garden of the guided tour.

Spring is so lush and joyful, what a treat to visit these outstanding private properties in the Wānaka area.

I love my job!
beautifulgardenswanaka.com

Guided Garden Tours

Beautiful Gardens of Wānaka • Ph.02102792481

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 6h

I recently wrote an essay about Peace. More than wishful thinking, peace is intentional work, and worth it. regenerativelifestyle.blog/2025/04/26/p...

It starts within, which is so empowering, we CAN do something for peace if we want to.

I would love to hear comments or contributions to #Peace.

Peace Love Shanti shanti shanti

An essay about peace and how to get there, starting within. Spoiler: it involves a lot of LOVE!

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 6h

Just found this photo of my 3 years old self.
I am amused I always spent time in meadows and always loved flowers;
I always valued dandelions so much, bright and joyful, a great gift!
I still do😀🌼

Little girl standing in a meadow holding a bouquet of wild flowers for Mum

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 1d

I have contacted local oat milk producer Otis for a refill option, so far, inexistant. I will keep looking.

New World offers an option for cow milk refill bottles. The rare times I buy cow milk, I bring my glass bottle to the shop and get a new one full of milk from the fridge. Seamless and easy.

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 1d

I take our soy and oat milk cartons to the local recycling centre. Washed and opened to be flat. They are sent to SaveBoard who transform them, right here in New Zealand Hamilton, into walls, kitchen tops etc. www.saveboard.nz/drop-off-car...

Better than into the landfill.

Carton Drop Off Locations | saveBOARD NZ – Recycle Tetra Pak & Beverage Cartons

Recycle Tetra Pak and beverage cartons in NZ. View saveBOARD drop off locations and help turn packaging waste into low-carbon building materials.

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 1d

How do you communicate about your sustainability? Too much and it's greenwashing. Too little means you're not doing enough...
Free webinar by Ecochoice Aotearoa on 30 October.

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 1d

I like the lines: "Earth’s climate trajectory will be determined by the aggregation of decisions on many individual projects".

And I add "and individual actions".

So the future is in our hands. Very empowering.

Choosing, acting well. I do, it's easy, fun and feelgood when we set our mind to it.

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 1d

A robust formula can now determine the extent to which an individual fossil fuel project will warm the planet.

First example: a gas project in Australia will cause 484 deaths and destroy millions of coral. theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 3d

Not only it's extravagant to emit so much, it's also unnecessary. We ARE on paradise planet.

Isn't Earth beautiful and abundant?

We do our bit. We love, nurture and enhance the little bit of Earth we are grateful to be guardians of. We create paradise in our garden, nature gives us back tenfold🙏

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 3d

Space exploration is curiosity, science. It has been also international competition. And now it clearly becomes colonisation, continuing for the sake of economic growth with associated pollutions.

Divesting into people and Earth seems wise🦉

Via Earthables
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Redirecting...

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 4d

How much petrol did we pay in the last 6 months? (It included a ski season and going up the mountain many times with our plugin hybrid).

Have a guess!

$66

And no petrol for any tool! They are all electric too -incl. the ride-on lawnmower.

This solar on the roof works well for us.

House surrounded with gardens and trees with solar panels on the roof.

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 4d

The Conversation NZ has power published several articles on the energy transition in NZ. As expected, the government has it wrong and scaling up solar and wind is the solution.

At home, we have gone solar over the years. How much is our bill? Zero (a credit actually).
#gosolar #nobrainer

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 6d

The government’s energy package is unnecessarily preoccupied with fossil fuels and ignores important reform work already underway.

Why does NZ’s new energy plan sideline renewables and ignore progress made already?

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 5d

Our grass has been growing for 18years after decades of overgrazed pasture, becoming a deep green sponge full of insects, skinks and birds. Water is retained year long. The soil is moist, deep, dark brown with lots of worms.
We mow footpaths regularly, soft and lush.

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 5d

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Is it time to say goodbye to pristine lawns?

Goodbye grass. Hello native garden

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 5d

The end of the lawns makes sense.
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Redirecting...

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 6d

Awesome way to campaign and foster change: a photography exhibition at the parliament showing how beautiful the Denniston plateau is, therefore why it should be saved from mining.

I would go if I was near Wellington. Good one👍

events.humanitix.com/save-denniston

Denniston - a place worth fighting for.

Join us at Parliament's Banquet Hall for an engaging talk & photo exhibition showcasing the beauty of the Denniston Plateau. Wine, beer and appetisers provided.

events.humanitix.com

Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 6d

Living wage is saved this time, that's a win for people and -minimum- fairness.

Well done✅

A reminder that people's power works, even with a *&#π§ government.

Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social · 7d

Through pure people power - with workers, faith, and community uniting - the Govt has decided to keep the Living Wage in its procurement guidelines for contracted cleaners, catering workers, and security guards.

Special mention to the many workers who stood up and organised for this win. #NZpol

LIVING WAGE SAVED
For workers employed by contractors in the core public service

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 9d

I look forward to share garden beauty and knowledge in a guided garden tour.

For the 6th season, I visit outstanding local private gardens with my guests in my small carbon-neutral business beautifulgardenswanaka.com

Guided Garden Tours

Beautiful Gardens of Wānaka • Ph.02102792481

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 9d

Feeling grateful #inthegarden, so much beauty and grandeur. And perfumes.
Look at that! The old cherry tree starts flowering, adding to the pink flowering cherry and the splashes of yellow daffodils. Spring bliss.
Looking forward to sharing this garden beauty with guests.

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 9d

Practical action for the planet, going circular. This means less stuff, less carbon, more local, all good.

#CircularMonday is a day of focus and initiatives to go circular. Join the movement on 24th of November.

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Circular Monday - Reuse, repair & rent

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