Young Professionals - Leading the Change

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Invitation to be involved in the 2010 Mt Victoria Inner City Festival: an eco-focused event

The 2nd annual Mt Vic Inner City Festival is now being organised on Saturday 27 February 2010 from 10am – 3pm, with a theme of sustainability and green living. The festival will offer opportunities to stallholders, community interest & support groups, artists, performers interested in sustainability and will also include the creation of some ‘green spaces’ for people to relax in, live entertainment, workshops (i.e. composting, worm farms, growing vegetables on your balcony/small section), a… Continue

Added by Tania Austin on November 30, 2009 at 11:06am — No Comments

Plimmerton Market - First blog from our new site... plimmertonmarket.blogspot.com

Finally after months and MONTHS of musing, planning, committee discussion, unused resource consent applications, street canvassing, re-hashed plans and emergency coffee groups ... Plimmerton Community Market is GO! Thanks to the lovely Steph of Big Mac Slabs, on State Highway 1 (by Ulrich St and the Plimmerton Domain) who has kindly offered to host us. We are starting the weekend after next: that is December 6th!!! Now, I just have a million little things to sort out before then, namely contac… Continue

Added by Moira Gaerty on November 27, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Time for a carbon recovery charge?

I seem to be unfashionable. I am not following the trend that many governments are taking to manage their climate emissions. I am also calling for better support for New Zealand farmers in climate change discussions. In the lead up to the global climate change negotiations in Copenhagen next month, I have been thinking a lot about inter-governmental frameworks for restoring our climate. Many countries are developing Emissions Trading Schemes to manage their climate changing emissions, either on… Continue

Added by Nick Potter on November 18, 2009 at 10:17am — 3 Comments

Sometimes we have to take the lead

Bikes at the 350 International Climate Action Festival in Wellington, New Zealand. So the world's leaders have, this week, failed to make progress towards a legally binding global climate treaty. After the excitement of the international climate action day this comes as a sobering wake-up call about just… Continue

Added by Marianne Elliott on November 16, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Lessons from 350

Well that's been a pretty consuming 6 months, but boy was it fun. Starting out at just one meeting every tuesday night in may, my commitments to 350 Aotearoa steadily evolved to building the website (naturally), maintaining the facebook and twitter accounts, registering a new charity, serving as trustee, volunteer recruitment and looking after the finances (I love xero). The crunch was having my office invaded - 6 people in a… Continue

Added by Joshua Vial on November 14, 2009 at 1:41pm — No Comments

Stretching to make a difference (3): Flow

This is the third set of musings in a sequence on how yoga relates to action on climate change. This post takes up the theme of flow, which involves the movement of energy. I have only recently started to find a good flow a… Continue

Added by Nick Potter on November 2, 2009 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Stretching to make a difference (2): Stillness

This is the second set of musings in a sequence on how yoga relates to action on climate change. This post takes up the theme of stillness. Focusing the mind To warm things up, here is a quick exercise to stret… Continue

Added by Nick Potter on October 30, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Stretching to make a difference: What has yoga got to do with climate change?

My friend Carl threw me a curly question (as he is prone to do) earlier this year: How would you apply what you’ve come to understand through the practice of yoga to our current global situation? With a “Big Stretch for the Climate… Continue

Added by Nick Potter on October 22, 2009 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

JUNK2FUNK

Sue Hunter won "Best Overall' in the Junk2Funk recycled art show held on Waiheke last weekend, with her outfit made from Vogel's bread bags - simply stunning. I was priviledged to be a judge at the show - see more pix on my blog www.martin-adlington.blogspot.com Continue

Added by Martin Adlington on October 5, 2009 at 7:18pm — No Comments

Some birds just weren't meant to fly

Question: What's the one personal choice you can make that is worse for the climate than choosing air travel? Answer: Burning down a forest. --- Too often debates about climate change are hijacked by inappropriate world views and frames of reference. The cost of emission reduction strategies, the impossibility of people changing their lifestyles, the reality of our political climate. This is using the wrong sort of thinking to consider the problem, like using a tape measu… Continue

Added by Joshua Vial on September 13, 2009 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Ending my addiction to Aviation Fuel

I'm writing this on the bus from Wellington to Auckland. Its 5pm, and I've been on the road since 8am. This is the Naked Bus service, and the ticket cost me $38, even though I booked it late in the piece. I'm traveling up to Auckland to do a TV appearance with my band - the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra. We will be on air for maybe 20 minutes, and then we are going to take the opportunity to do an in-store appearance at Real Groovy before coming home. Sure, love the fame and opportu… Continue

Added by Megan Hosking on September 10, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

Living Streets position available in Auckland

Living Streets Aotearoa is looking for an experienced community development networker to replace our staff member in Auckland who will be away for five months. We are looking for someone with the ability to support and develop our groups in Auckland City, North Shore, Waitakere, and Manukau, to motivate and enthuse volunteers, and to establish and maintain effective networks and relationships with a wide range of stakeholders in the Auckland region. This is a half-time (20 hours/week) fixed te… Continue

Added by Kelvin Aris on September 10, 2009 at 8:53am — No Comments

Grey Lynn Farmers Market opening

Congratulations to Vincent Dickie & the GLFM team - the event was such a success people had to queue to get in!! Continue

Added by Martin Adlington on September 6, 2009 at 7:13pm — 1 Comment

Nipple Fridge Takes the Prize

In the Page Blackie Gallery last night, Intersect - a national network of young leaders in sustainability - awarded 22 year old Amelia Hitchcock for her artwork “New Zealand Pure”. The artwork is a ‘dunger’ of a fridge - stacked with old fashioned baby bottles filled with water collected from lowland rivers around the artist’s home town , Wanganui. “..In a nation that proclaims to the world to be ‘clean and green,’ 90% of our lowland rivers are so polluted, you cannot gather food or swim in the… Continue

Added by Megan Hosking on September 5, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Connecting to Urban Space

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Added by Ines Seidel on September 4, 2009 at 3:45am — 2 Comments

List and map of all the community gardens in New Zealand - please help!

Good magazine needs collaborators to help compile a list and map of all the community gardens in New Zealand. We've just started it, so we need lots of help! If you know of a community garden that isn't listed, please leave a comment at the link below with its name, address (incl region) and website (if it has one). www.good.net.nz/magazine/community-gardens Please feel free to leave forward the link around. Hopefu… Continue

Added by Annabel McAleer on August 26, 2009 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

Is Sustainable Education at a tipping point in the New Zealand Tertiary Sector?

I just want to share this article written by our Sustainability Director, Dr. Barry Law. He says: Tertiary education institutions have traditional organised learning through disciplinary models of teaching and learning making it difficult to implement interdisciplinary learning around complex social issues like sustainability. Despite this limitation there is an emerging focus on content related to sustainability in both the Polytechnic and University sector. Read the full article here… Continue

Added by Christine Gooding on August 25, 2009 at 4:59pm — No Comments

The Prof talks Rubbish

NZ's own Professor of Garbology discusses some of the finer points of trash with members of Auckland Uni's Business School.....see more at www.martin-adlington.blogspot.com

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Added by Martin Adlington on August 21, 2009 at 9:14pm — No Comments

Chocolate Flavoured People Power

Today’s U-turn by choc industry giant coupled with the latest youtube viral video has given me the last smidgeon of evidence that I need to back my personal belief that Human Beings Can Do Anything They Put Their Minds To. In less than a fortnight, tens of thousands of people outraged over the injustice of… Continue

Added by Megan Hosking on August 17, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Fun and games - until someone opens an eye

Last week I enjoyed taking part in a curious event that was organised around the idea that "we have our Eyes Wide Open to the opportunities that will make our country shine." It aimed to help shift the conversation on climate change in a more positive direction. Much of the current debate on climate change - and it mostly is a debate instead of a constructive conversation - focuses on the costs of taking action. If we always look f… Continue

Added by Nick Potter on August 17, 2009 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments