Back to On To It: Sustainability News
Greener Neighbourhoods is a community-led, council-supported initiative. At its heart it’s about you and your neighbours coming together to increase resilience, build community, reduce environmental impact and save money.
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New opportunities for Greener Neighbourhoods Over the last eight years eighteen groups involving 155 households have participated in the Greener Neighbourhoods programme. Extensive Greener Neighbourhood stories tell of communities coming together to build better, environmentally lighter lifestyles, enduring friendships and innovative projects with lasting positive impacts. This year we have taken some time out to evaluate the Greener Neighbourhoods programme and are now calling for new groups to take part in the 2018. Read more. |
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WHAT IS GREENER NEIGHBOURHOODS? Greener Neighbourhoods is part of the Council’s ongoing commitment to increasing sustainability and resilience in the district. Groups take part in a number of activities including ecological footprinting, No8 Wire Week workshops, a civil defence challenge, a waste audit, Green Gardener workshops, water conservation and eco-home advice. There is also plenty of scope for groups to pursue their own interests and projects, read more. |
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Seed Packets – Make Your Own Gifts!Looking for a cheap and wholesome present idea for Christmas? Why not give seeds? What a great gift for grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends – and the cost – just a few packets of seeds, some little bags or foil wrap and some time! Read more. |
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Celebrating Those Companies Making Better Environmental ChoicesI was pleased as punch to see many of our supermarkets and large warehouse chains installing a ‘soft’ plastic recycling regime Read more. |
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Electronic Graveyard One by one our electronics graveyard has been mounting up. It’s not like we’ve been upgrading computers every year, but the pile of gadgets and cables that are dead or surplus to requirements keeps growing.Read more.
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Plan Bee There has been a hive of activity going on in the mean streets of Rau Sou. A bunch of busy bees have been getting busy in the name of buzzy bees and working bees and I’m gonna get wax lyrical about it. Read more |
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Our food footprint Thirty three percent of the average New Zealander’s eco-footprint comes from the food we eat. Michael Pollan’s In Defence of Food encourages people to spend more money and time on food and to buy locally. And by food, he means the stuff your grandmother (or great-grandmother) would recognise, as opposed to “foodlike substances” which have been highly processed. Read more. |
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Kombucha vs Wormwee Perched on the corner of Renown Road and Tiromoana Road, there is an exquisitely painted palace, piled with plenty of produce...just for you! And me! And that guy over there! And her too! That's right, the Greenown+ Hākari is a stall for giving and taking. Now up and running it has already seen a flurry of activity. Read more. |
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Sowing Seeds - Sounds Easy... How many of us have tried to sow seeds and it’s been a bit hit and miss? I know I gave up a few years ago except for peas and beans, and bought seedlings. Must say those Awapuni bundles at our Pak ‘n Save are pretty darn good if you’re having to buy them – and so many more in a bundle than a punnet – AND they don’t use plastic! But no more! It’s really a lot easier than I thought and the time to sow is now! Read more. |
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