Our story

We love to support other Kiwi companies that are making a difference and Zee Zee merino is doing just that.

The Zee Zee Merino journey began 8 years ago…

Plastic - it’s everywhere and a surprising amount of it still gets thrown in the rubbish rather than reused or recycled. In fact, according to Plastics…

Do you suffer from sneezing and itchy skin? Are there some things you can’t eat? If so, you’re not alone – more and more New Zealanders are…

The cooler autumn weather can affect how our skin looks and feels so if your skin has been feeling dry or irritated it could be a good time to look at adjusting…

To help us celebrate the spirit of Valentines day this year, our friends Steve and Suzanne at Kokohuia Lodge are offering their amazing luxury retreat for a romantic…

Did you know you can find ecostore on Pinterest? (We’re…

Many of us know Christmas can be a time of increased hardship and stress for anyone let alone those who are living in poverty or are homeless which is one of…

When he’s not at work heading up the ecostore Research and Development team, Huia Iti has been going through some intensive training to become a volunteer…

New Zealand consumer advocacy group, Consumer recently put eight Auto Dishwasher Tablets to the test to find out which brands offered better performance…

The Unpackit Awards are a great initiative in terms of raising awareness of the issue of packaging waste. They do this by getting people to vote for the best…

1. Make the most of the sunshine and dry your clothes and bed linen outside in the fresh air. Sunshine can actually help kill bacteria and dust mites, and…

We know that for people to make the switch to healthier and safer eco products like ours they have to work as well as mainstream brands and fair enough too. But…

The installation of 48 solar panels on the roof of the ecostore shop in Freeman’s Bay, marks an historic moment this week resulting in New Zealand’s…

For someone who is doing extraordinary things, Julie Chapman says she leads a relatively ordinary life with her partner Cain, her stepdaughter Elise and their…

The Rands family ukulele band provided entertainment on the night. From L-R they are Melanie, Ahi and Keva with Ecoman, Malcolm rocking out on Melodica (which…

A few years back, Ahi, daughter of our co-founders Malcolm and Melanie, wrote and illustrated a little business-card sized book which she called ‘ecoman…

Our CEO Malcolm Rands was on Campbell Live in 2013 being interviewed by Lachlan Forsyth about the early days of ecostore in our ecovillage in New Zealand.…

I completely took over our meeting room and spent the day drawing and cutting out lots of little puffy shapes and putting them together to create a cute stop-motion…

A group of us from ecostore joined hundreds of other people in Auckland in 2013 to hear environmental author and activist Bill McKibben speak. Bill is the…

Ever wondered what goes into making an ecostore label? We get help from super-talented photographers Mark and Deborah Smith who we call our ‘baby whisperers’…

To celebrate Mother’s Day in 2013 we asked our newsletter subscribers to nominate their mums to be our eco hero and we got so many lovely stories we…

In May 2013 a group of 16 amazing young people representative of youth organisations and movements from all over New Zealand kayaked 100km down the Whanganui…

What do you think of our hand wash foam pumps?  You don’t need to wet your hands before using the hand wash, the foam they make is light on your hands…