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• Our Human Rights: How to Use them for Climate Action and a Just Transition?

  May 31

  Our Human Rights: How to Use them for Climate Action and a Just Transition?

  Join the Forum as we view a talk by Josephine Grey, a long-time advocate and community organizer for healthy food security, human rights, climate action and basic income in Canada. In the talk, Josephine walks us through the UN Human Rights Framework and how it can be used to advocate …

  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
• From rags to bags

  Jun 1

  From rags to bags

  Come and turn rags into bags. Bring old t-shirts, pillow cases or that stash of fabric you don't know what to do with and turn them into vege bags, handbags even. Sewing machines etc provided.   …

  10:00 am - 2:00 pm

  Gold coin donation
• Take the Jump Webinar – Become an actor of change into your community

  Jun 1

  Take the Jump Webinar – Become an actor of change into your community

  If you are concerned about climate change but don't know what you can do to make a difference, then this webinar is for you! Sign up and come along to this Climate Action Week online event to find out more about "Take the Jump", a campaign that focuses on the …

  7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
• Motueka Community Garden Working bee

  Jun 2

  Motueka Community Garden Working bee

  Join the working bee crew at the Motueka Community Garden. You'll be welcomed by Helen, who will give a quick tour of the garden for newcomers, before getting to work on some gardening tasks. An opportunity to learn about this garden and join the team working there! More info on …

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Victory Community Garden working bees

  Jun 2

  Victory Community Garden working bees

  A dedicated volunteer team has made the Victory Community Garden a beautiful and productive space. At the occasion of Climate Action Week, Nadia, Community Kai Coordinator, is organising a Garden Tour to take place on Monday afternoon from 1.30pm to 2.30pm. The tour will be followed by the …

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Urban Regeneration – Online webinar

  Jun 2

  Urban Regeneration – Online webinar

  Join us for an engaging and insightful online event - "Introduction to Urban Regeneration" Discover the transformative power of urban regeneration and how it can shape the future of the Nelson Tasman Region. This 'lightly interactive' session is designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of regenerative development, highlighting …

  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
• Learn how to make compost!

  Jun 3

  Learn how to make compost!

  The Nelson Tasman Climate Forum  is offering  a 2 hour workshop on planning and building a compost heap on site. The Tutor is Rex Hunt who has run an organic plant nursery since 1980 and has focussed on making his own compost. Rex has both 1 and 3 year old …

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Electric Vehicle Tradeshow/test drive – Climate Action Week

  Jun 3

  Electric Vehicle Tradeshow/test drive – Climate Action Week

  Following the success of last year's EV tradeshow during Climate Action Week, we are please to announce that an Electric Vehicle (EV) tradeshow and test drive session will be organised again this year. Learn and explore what  electric vehicles and PHEV models are available in the NZ market. This is …

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Contemplative Nature Photography Workshop

  Jun 3

  Contemplative Nature Photography Workshop

  In the workshop, you will explore practices to enhance sensory awareness, and to develop your skills of attentiveness and focus. You will be inspired to re-examine your own ways of perceiving, thinking about, and connecting with the natural world. There will be ample space and opportunity to nurture mindfulness, and …

  10:30 am - 12:30 pm

  $80
• Waimarama Community Gardens Crop Swap

  Jun 4

  Waimarama Community Gardens Crop Swap

  Bring surplus crops and produce to share/swap :-) This event is subject to weather conditions. So please call Sally (number below) if the weather looks uncertain. See other Climate Action Week events HERE or on the Event section of the website. …

  10:30 am - 11:30 am
• Nelson Seed Library working bee

  Jun 4

  Nelson Seed Library working bee

  Come and help store and label the seeds for the Nelson Seed Library project and learn, at the same time, how to save your own seeds for next year. Indeed, this session will include one hour introduction to Seed Saving. An occasion not to be missed! Bring: weather suitable clothes, …

  11:45 am - 1:45 pm
• Online Premiere of Ben and bEartha

  Jun 4

  Online Premiere of Ben and bEartha

  For those of you who missed the Premiere and launch of Climate Action week, or who aren’t local to Whakatū Nelson, the team of Happen Film is organising the Online Preamiere  this Sunday! This will be a live-streamed screening of the 40-minute documentary followed by a Q&A with Antoinette and …

  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

  $15
• Sustainable Living Center Free community Event

  Jun 4

  Sustainable Living Center Free community Event

  3:00 pm - 7:30 pm
• Doughnuts and Degrowth – Imagining a New Future

  Jun 7

  Doughnuts and Degrowth – Imagining a New Future

  Join Gareth Hughes and Jack Santa Barbara in a discussion of the most important mission facing the world right now - re-designing our economic paradigm to ensure collective wellbeing on a healthy planet. The Local Matters team invites you to their next event on Wednesday the 7th June, 7.30 …

  7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

  $10
• NEW DATE!! Food, Water, the Climate and You- A talk by James Renwick and Paul White

  Jun 10

  NEW DATE!! Food, Water, the Climate and You- A talk by James Renwick and Paul White

  Join us for a presentation from Professor James Renwick, Victoria University of Wellington professor of physical geography, and member of New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission. James was one of the authors of the latest IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report, and will be providing an overview of that report’s main findings.  …

  7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
• Tom Kay on Making Room for Rivers – Nelson

  Jun 14

  Tom Kay on Making Room for Rivers – Nelson

  In the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, the way we live with our rivers is at the front of many people's minds. While it is difficult to discuss for many people, having a conversation now about the future of river management and flood protection in our region is the only way …

  7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
• Thomas Cawthron Memorial Lecture – Ice and Us : Adapting to sea level rise

  Jun 27

  Thomas Cawthron Memorial Lecture – Ice and Us : Adapting to sea level rise

  Keynote address by Professor Tim Naish and Professor Richard Levy. With supporting presentation by Cawthron's Dr Anna Berthelsen and Jacqui Stuart Melting land ice is now the single largest driver of global sea-level rise. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated “2m by 2100 cannot be …

  5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
• Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day

  Jul 2

  Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day

  Battle for the Banded Rail is a project working with local communities to increase the number of banded rail and other estuarine birds on the margins of the Waimea Inlet by restoring habitat and trapping predators. We have an upcoming community planting day at Manuka Island! Please bring gloves, spade …

  9:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day

  Jul 9

  Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day

  Battle for the Banded Rail is a project working with local communities to increase the number of banded rail and other estuarine birds on the margins of the Waimea Inlet by restoring habitat and trapping predators. We have an upcoming community planting day at Sandeman Reserve in Richmond! Please bring …

  9:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day

  Jul 16

  Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day

  Battle for the Banded Rail is a project working with local communities to increase the number of banded rail and other estuarine birds on the margins of the Waimea Inlet by restoring habitat and trapping predators. We have an upcoming community planting day on the Bronte Peninsula! Please bring gloves, …

  9:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Wakapuaka Mouri Matariki/Puanga Community Planting day

  Jul 16

  Wakapuaka Mouri Matariki/Puanga Community Planting day

  Come along and join in with the Matariki/Puanga Community Planting day for Wakapuaka Mouri project on the 16th July at 1pm. All welcome! Just bring gloves, a spade (if you have one) and appropriate footwear. How do you get there? Drive down Cable Bay Road, turn left onto Maori Pa …

  1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
• Nelson Repair Cafe

  Jul 22

  Nelson Repair Cafe

  Come and be part of a Repair Movement! A FREE monthly event helping you to repair your items, save resources and build community. Come along, and you might pick up some new fixing skills! …

  10:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Free
• Friends of Snowden’s Bush Community planting day

  Jul 23

  Friends of Snowden’s Bush Community planting day

  Snowden's Bush is  a Dept Conservation Reserve (Waimea West Rd, Brightwater)  It is home to some significantly large pre-European totara, and is one of three small remnants  of the original Waimea Plains forests. Public planting morning July 23rd (weather postponement July 30th) meeting at the Reserve 9am Bring your own …

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Countdown to Zero: Emissions Reduction Programme

  Aug 11

  Countdown to Zero: Emissions Reduction Programme

  Is your carbon footprint a bit of a mystery? Need a hand understanding and reducing it? Mission Zero, an initiative of Businesses for Climate Action, is here to help. Countdown to Zero is a programme of fun and interactive workshops designed to help businesses in Te Tauihu measure and reduce …

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Nil
• Freshwater – the Good, the Bad, the Future

  Aug 14

  Freshwater – the Good, the Bad, the Future

  Join Lan Pham (former Environment Canterbury Councillor, Freshwater Ecologist to hear about the wonders of our native fish and the latest on the state of Aoteroa New Zealand's freshwater; the implications for both human health and the health of our environment; and what is happening (or not happening) nationally, internationally …

  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  free
• WEBINAR – Your money has power! Find out about the carbon emissions of your savings and how YOU can make a difference

  Aug 15

  WEBINAR – Your money has power! Find out about the carbon emissions of your savings and how YOU can make a difference

  Your money has power! Find out about the carbon emissions of your savings and how YOU can make a difference Are your savings working for the long-term good of our natural environment? Chances are your money is helping to fund oil and gas companies responsible for our worsening climate. Find …

  7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
• “Rethinking Home” – innovative approaches to transforming housing options in Nelson/Tasman that better respond to our environmental and social needs

  Aug 16

  “Rethinking Home” – innovative approaches to transforming housing options in Nelson/Tasman that better respond to our environmental and social needs

  "Rethinking Home" - innovative approaches to transforming housing options in Nelson/Tasman that better respond to our environmental and social needs You are warmly invited to attend a Local Matters presentation on "Rethinking Home",  which will look at innovative approaches to transforming housing options in Nelson/Tasman that better respond to our …

  7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

  $10
• Nelson Repair Cafe

  Aug 26

  Nelson Repair Cafe

  Come and be part of a Repair Movement! A FREE monthly event helping you to repair your items, save resources and build community. Come along, and you might pick up some new fixing skills! Come and be part of a Repair Movement! A FREE monthly event helping you to repair …

  10:00 am - 1:00 pm
• How much energy is involved in using your computer? WEBINAR

  Aug 29

  How much energy is involved in using your computer? WEBINAR

  The Take the Jump Campaign invites us to reduce our consumption by making several changes. While the "End of clutter" shift encourages us to keep our electronic devices, amongst which our computers, tablets and phones, for at least 7 years, the way we use them, and specifically the way we use data, …

  7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
• Meet the candidates on Climate and Biodiversity – Tasman/West Coast

  Sep 20

  Meet the candidates on Climate and Biodiversity – Tasman/West Coast

  The climate emergency is challenging us to do things a little differently. How do we create a low-emissions society that support a thriving natural environment? Join us and hear our political representatives talk about their plans for Tasman. REGISTER HERE and meet them on Zoom on the 20th of September …

  7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
• Nelson Repair Cafe

  Sep 23

  Nelson Repair Cafe

  Come and be part of a Repair Movement! A FREE monthly event helping you to repair your items, save resources and build community. Come along, and you might pick up some new fixing skills! …

  10:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Free
• Meet the candidates on Climate and Biodiversity – Nelson

  Sep 26

  Meet the candidates on Climate and Biodiversity – Nelson

  The climate emergency is challenging us to do things a little differently. How do we create a low-emissions society that support a thriving natural environment? Join us and hear our political representatives talk about their plans for Nelson. Register here to meet them on Zoom on the 26th of September …

  7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
• Snowden’s Bush morning of weeding

  Oct 8

  Snowden’s Bush morning of weeding

  Working bee at Snowdon's Bush for weeding the areas that we have planted over the last couple of years. …

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee

  Oct 8

  Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee

  Envision a Nelson Tasman region where all recognize the urgent need to address climate change through individual and collective actions, and where all work together to enhance the resilience of our biodiversity and ecosystems in a rapidly changing climate. …

  1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  Free
• Post Election Bash (the weeds)

  Oct 15

  Post Election Bash (the weeds)

  Didn't get the result you wanted? Come along and take it out on invasive plants on the banks of the Wai-iti River, next to Barton Lane (between Brightwater and Wakefield) on Sunday 15th October (9am - 12pm). …

  9:00 am - 12:30 pm
• Grow Your Own Food – Gardening and permaculture for beginners

  Oct 17

  Grow Your Own Food – Gardening and permaculture for beginners

  Ami Kennedy from The Germinate Collective will be facilitating a Grow Your Own Food Course starting 19th of October. This 6 week course for beginner gardeners or those that would like a little focus and encouragement to invigorate their gardening is held on Thursdays 10:30am-12pm at Waimarama Community Gardens. …

  5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

  $12 – $15
• Grow Your Own Food – Gardening and permaculture for beginners

  Oct 18

  Grow Your Own Food – Gardening and permaculture for beginners

  GROW YOUR OWN FOOD Organic Gardening & Garden Design Course for Beginners A six week introduction to organic FOOD gardening & garden design Join The Germinate Collective gardeners to share in the life long learning journey. …

  10:30 am - 12:00 pm

  $12 – $15
• Nelson Repair Cafe

  Oct 21

  Nelson Repair Cafe

  Come and be part of a Repair Movement! A FREE monthly event helping you to repair your items, save resources and build community. Come along, and you might pick up some new fixing skills! …

  10:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Free
• ‘Too Hot to Work’ – Movie screening and debate

  Oct 25

  ‘Too Hot to Work’ – Movie screening and debate

  Tord Kjellstrom and his team will be showing a movie called 'Too Hot to Work'.  A new global investigation on the impacts of climate change on worker's health and productivity, titled "Trop chaud pour travailler" (Too Hot To Work), was shot in Italy, France, Qatar, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Nepal, …

  6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

  $5
• Climate Champions Celebration

  Nov 3

  Climate Champions Celebration

  Nelson Tasman is full of fantastic people working to save our planet and you deserve some appreciation! We want to take a moment to celebrate your tireless efforts with an evening of dancing and community, with tunes provided by Rich and the Poor Boys. If you plant, pick litter, advocate, …

  8:00 pm

  free or koha
• Nelson Repair Cafe

  Nov 25

  Nelson Repair Cafe

  Come and be part of a Repair Movement! A FREE monthly event helping you to repair your items, save resources and build community. Come along, and you might pick up some new fixing skills! …

  10:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Free
• Take the Jump – Kia Māia te Peke – Webinar (Part 2)

  Dec 20

  Take the Jump – Kia Māia te Peke – Webinar (Part 2)

  Take the Jump – Kia Māia te Peke Webinar (Part 2) – 20th December at 7.30pm On 6th December, a webinar on Take the Jump was hosted by Our Climate Declaration, featuring Tom Bailey, who leads the Take the Jump global team, and Chris Wheatley who is coordinating the …

  7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
• Nelson Repair Cafe

  Mar 23

  Nelson Repair Cafe

  A monthly event helping you to repair your household items, save resources and build community – brought to you by the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum, held at the Habitat Hub (Restore), 166 Tahunanui Drive. You will be able to bring items for smaller repairs – examples include: – Electrical items …

  10:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Nelson Repair Cafe

  Apr 20

  Nelson Repair Cafe

  A monthly event helping you to repair your household items, save resources and build community – brought to you by the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum, held at the Habitat Hub (Restore), 166 Tahunanui Drive. You will be able to bring items for smaller repairs – examples include: – Electrical items …

  10:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee

  Feb 9

  Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee

  Giving a hand to nature by raising the health of Maire Stream …

  9:30 am - 12:30 pm

  Free
• Nature and Climate: Meet your Candidates and hear their views.

  Sep 2

  Nature and Climate: Meet your Candidates and hear their views.

  Nelson Tasman Climate Forum, Forest and Bird and Tasman Environmental Trust have teamed up to host a series of Zoom sessions where both mayoral and council candidates will be invited to answer questions about the role they intend to play in advancing Nature and Climate  policies. The recent weather events …

  2 September 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 11 September 2025 @ 8:00 pm
• Growth of the Repair movement from Te Tau Ihu (Top of the South)

  Sep 12

  Growth of the Repair movement from Te Tau Ihu (Top of the South)

  Join us to learn how the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum is helping grow the Repair kaupapa across Te Tau Ihu and beyond. We're working to make it normal in our communities to value what we have—by supporting repair, maintenance, and fair access to services that help extend the life of …

  10:00 am - 11:00 am
• Community Hui: Understanding our rivers, strengthening our communities

  Sep 18

  Community Hui: Understanding our rivers, strengthening our communities

  Join the Motueka Catchment Collective for  a collaborative hui exploring the Motueka River system—iwi connections, historical protection and management, current dynamics and health, and the resilience we need for the future. They’ll share insights on recent flood events, river behaviour, and begin the conversation around solutions for climate change and …

  9:30 am - 4:00 pm
• Event POSTPONED – Planning for the Future of Nelson Tasman Together

  Sep 24

  Event POSTPONED – Planning for the Future of Nelson Tasman Together

  !! This event has been postponed to the Thursday 23rd of October =>>> New event !! Are you worried about sea level rise, flooding, earthquakes, and bushfires? Do you wonder what Nelson City Council is doing about these increasing risks? Do you want to explore how climate change will affect where …

  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
• Public talk – Evolution in Democracy

  Aug 5

  Public talk – Evolution in Democracy

  The fuel crisis? Amalgamation? Climate change? Urban intensification? We face lots of gnarly issues that affect us all and seriously challenge our political system. Fresh techniques in deliberative democracy can empower citizens to reach robust decisions, helping elected representatives progress the most contentious matters. Learn from experts how techniques like …

  5:30 pm - 7:00 pm