It completes the rewritten 'Drinking and Your Health' series, commonly referred to as the 'Six-Pack'. The new booklet is based on the stages and processes of change, and using motivational interviewing, it promotes the idea and practice of negotiating change between counsellor and client. It offers a range of ways to help drinkers abstain or better manage their drinking. The full range of documents is used in six countries, and in NZ they are mainly used by alcohol and drug counsellors, probation officers, and primary health care workers. The booklets use a series of comparative photos and explanations that illustrate good and bad soil management practices.
Farmers can use a series of factors to determine the health of their soil.
Farmers can give these a score, add up the total and have a clear idea of how their soil is doing. The scores can be compared from year to year or from paddock to paddock, to provide feedback on soil improvement or degradation. The four booklets are spilt into two pairs. Volumes One and Two are useful for cropping and pastoral grazing on flat to rolling country, while Three and Four are more relevant to hill country land users. The booklets are a collaborative effort by Landcare Research, horizons.mw, Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Wellington Regional Council, and the Ministry for the Environment.