Events List
50 events found.
From rags to bags
Tahunanui Library 44B Parkers Rd, Tahunanui - NelsonCome 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…
Gold coin donation
Take the Jump Webinar – Become an actor of change into your community
OnlineIf 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…
Motueka Community Garden Working bee
Motueka Community GardenJoin 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…
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…
Urban Regeneration – Online webinar
OnlineJoin 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…
Friday plant care session with Friends of the Matai
Groom creek 470 Maitai Valley Road, NelsonCome along on Friday afternoons for Plant Care Sessions with the Friends of the Maitai. We will be at Groom Creek just before the Maitai Campground. Park and cross the…
Learn how to make compost!
Willowgrove organic nursery 86 Highway 60, Appleby, New ZealandThe 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…
Electric Vehicle Tradeshow/test drive – Climate Action Week
Saxton Field at the new car parks near the velodrome 523 Main Road (nearest entrance), Stoke, New ZealandFollowing 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…
Contemplative Nature Photography Workshop
Queen's Gardens Hardy St - meeting place just inside Hardy street intrance, Nelson, New ZealandIn 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…
$80
Edible Weed Walk with Sally Rees
Waimarama Organic Community Garden Tantragee Road, The Brook, Nelson, New ZealandJoin Sally Rees, the 'Clean Green Queen', and founder of Natural Nosh, for a 2h ramble through the Waimarama Community Garden. Let's discover, with her, some of our more common…
$20
Waimarama Community Gardens Crop Swap
Waimarama Organic Community Garden Tantragee Road, The Brook, Nelson, New ZealandBring 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…
Nelson Seed Library working bee
Waimarama Organic Community Garden Tantragee Road, The Brook, Nelson, New ZealandCome 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,…
Online Premiere of Ben and bEartha
OnlineFor 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…
$15
Sustainable Living Center Free community Event
Sustainable Living Center 24 Waitapu Road, Takaka, New Zealand
Social Equity and Climate Change – group meeting
OnlineThis new group will hold its second meeting by Zoom at 7pm on Tuesday It will address the vital and increasingly urgent subject of the ways in which climate change…
Doughnuts and Degrowth – Imagining a New Future
Māpua Community Hall 72 Aranui Road, MāpuaJoin 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 pm at Mãpua Hall.
$10
NEW DATE!! Food, Water, the Climate and You- A talk by James Renwick and Paul White
Greenmeadows community centre Cnr Main Road and Songer Street, Stoke, Nelson, New ZealandJoin 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…
Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee
41 Highview Drive 41 Highview Drive, Tahunanui - NelsonWalk beneath this forest canopy, in this peaceful Maire Stream gully and it's like you've entered a hushed green world where time seems to slow.
Free
How Regular People Can Change Everything with Chlöe Swarbrick
Greenmeadows community centre Cnr Main Road and Songer Street, Stoke, Nelson, New ZealandA public talk with Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick who will discuss the power of everyday people, and how we can all take steps towards change in our own communities and…
Tom Kay on Making Room for Rivers – Nelson
Tahunanui School 69 Muritai Street, NelsonIn 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,…
Nature and Climate Group meeting
OnlineThe Nature and Climate group of the NTCF has been invited to make a submission to the Right Tree, Right Place Task Force that Nelson's mayor has established to advise…
Thomas Cawthron Memorial Lecture – Ice and Us : Adapting to sea level rise
Nelson Centre of Musical Arts 48 Nile Street, NelsonKeynote 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…
Advancing Aotearoa-New Zealand’s Vital Interests in a Turbulent World
OnlineAs the world grapples with big power transitions, shifting economic hierarchies, climate change, pandemics and severe challenges to international and regional balances, New Zealand finds itself navigating increasingly hazardous waters,…
Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day
Manuka Island (off Redwood Road)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…
Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day
Sandeman Reserve, Richmond. Parking is at the end of Sandeman Road.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…
Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee
Your opportunity to join Us. Our group is passionate about helping restore a healthy environment and would like to give you and others the opportunity to get active and make a difference locally towards the global climate crisis.
Free
Battle for the Banded Rail – Community Planting Day
Bronte Road East, Bronte PeninsulaBattle 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…
Wakapuaka Mouri Matariki/Puanga Community Planting day
Maori Pa Road, Delaware BayCome 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…
Take the Jump Ambassador Training
Zoom (link communicated at registration)Time for a new approach? Ditch the doom and gloom talk. Discover your style of climate talk in a fun and positive atmosphere. The Take The Jump Ambassador Training programme…
Nelson Repair Cafe
The Habitat Hub 166 Tahunanui Drive, Nelson, New ZealandCome 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!
Free
Friends of Snowden’s Bush Community planting day
Waimea West Rd, BrightwaterSnowden'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…
Countdown to Zero: Emissions Reduction Programme
Rutherford Hotel Nelson 27 Nile Street, Nelson, New ZealandIs 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 their carbon emissions. We make it easy for you to take steps towards a carbon-neutral future.
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Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee
Our Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers have been working on fixing this mess from Developers since 2019. Here is a picture down from the main Maire Stream Restoration Area. Come and see how that has grown. Now vegetation bending over Maire Stream cooling the waters. Giving protection for micro-invertebrates in turn food in the food chain...for Kokopu fish and long finned eels.
Free
Freshwater – the Good, the Bad, the Future
Moutere Hills Community Centre 1539 Moutere Highway, Upper Moutere 7175, New ZealandJoin 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…
free
WEBINAR – Your money has power! Find out about the carbon emissions of your savings and how YOU can make a difference
zoomYour 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…
Training: asking climate questions at candidate meetings
Online (Zoom)With the general election coming up, MPs and candidates often hold meetings for the public (that's you!), and answer questions from audience members. This is where we come in. By…
“Rethinking Home” – innovative approaches to transforming housing options in Nelson/Tasman that better respond to our environmental and social needs
Māpua Community Hall 72 Aranui Road, Māpua"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…
$10
1st Bday Celebration: La Planta Cafe & Grassroots Recycling
Join us to celebrate our 1st birthday! #sustainable #recycle
$5
Our Freshwater Future
Fairfield house 48 Van Diemen Street, NelsonOur freshwater's health is essential for our future.
koha
Nelson Repair Cafe
The Habitat Hub 166 Tahunanui Drive, Nelson, New ZealandCome 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…
How much energy is involved in using your computer? WEBINAR
Online (Zoom)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,…
The MacDiarmid Lecture: Good News for a Change: Sustainability tech in Aotearoa New Zealand and the science behind it
Garin College Library 35 Champion Road, RichmondThe MacDiarmid Lecture: Good News for a Change: Sustainability tech in Aotearoa New Zealand and the science behind it This MacDiarmid Institute's Regional Lecture Series will present an optimistic take…
To EV or not to EV, that is the question. When and why might it make sense to buy an electric car? by Lindsay Wood
Library Activities Room - Nelson Library Halifax Street, 27, NelsonThe Nelson Institute presents a talk by Lindsay Wood: To EV or not to EV, that is the question. When and why might it make sense to buy an electric car? …
$3
Learning opportunity!! Sustainable Primary Production
Freshwater quality and climate change mitigation are inexplicably linked to the whole country creating a sustainable environment. The goal of a sustainable future is for both urban and rural New…
Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee
41 Highview Drive 41 Highview Drive, Tahunanui - NelsonWe are making progress but need more before the Spring growth kicks in.
Come join Us for an afternoon in the peace of nature. Come for an hour or two, its up to you how much time you can spare for the good of nature, the good of this Earth project.
Free
Framing Messages around Climate Emergency – WEBINAR
Online (Zoom)The vast majority of people in industrialised countries now accept that global overheating constitutes a serious environmental crisis and that it has been largely caused by human action. Nevertheless, public…
Effective Advocacy for Climate Change – Steve Abel
Māpua Community Hall 72 Aranui Road, MāpuaDoor sales only - $10 ticket, students with ID free. Supper included
$10
Tackling the Barriers to Real Climate Action
Greenmeadows community centre Cnr Main Road and Songer Street, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand
koha
The Clothing Revolution
Greenmeadows community centre Cnr Main Road and Songer Street, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand
$5