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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
$80
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Edible Weed Walk with Sally Rees

Join 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 edible weeds. Because eating healthy and respectful of the planet also means reconnecting with nature and the abundant and freely …
$20
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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. …
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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, …
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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 …
$15
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Social Equity and Climate Change – group meeting

This 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 is exacerbating social inequality. Feel free to join if you want to join the forum members working on this topic, …
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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 …
$10
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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.  …
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How Regular People Can Change Everything with Chlöe Swarbrick

A 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 beyond. All welcome. This a rare opportunity for us to hear one of the country’s brightest and best MPs. …
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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 …
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Nature and Climate Group meeting

The 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 Council on the future of NCC's forestry estate. More info on the Task Force here. This is a once in …
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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 …
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Advancing Aotearoa-New Zealand’s Vital Interests in a Turbulent World

 As 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, yet with many constructive opportunities. Join our thought-provoking forum as our panel of experts share their ideas and explore potential …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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, …
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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 …
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Take the Jump Ambassador Training

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 will help you discover your own personal style of talking about climate change. These conversations can be difficult, but when …
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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! …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Free
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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 …
free
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Training: asking climate questions at candidate meetings

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 asking powerful climate questions - and recording the answers - we can show the politicians and the public the …
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“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 …
$10
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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 …
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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, …

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 Zealand to tackle together and one that our Level 4 NZQA registered course can help provide some of the  knowledge …
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Maire Stream Guardians/Nurturers monthly Working Bee

We 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 …
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Framing Messages around Climate Emergency – WEBINAR

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 commitment to making changes at household and community level and, most importantly, to demanding meaningful action from governments, both nationally …
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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 …
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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! …
Free
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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 …
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Not Your Normal Candidates Meeting

A Nelson Sustainable Transport initiative to allow people to meet and question the candidates for the general election in a warm and convivial atmosphere where after hearing from each candidate we share music and kai and deepen connections. We also have information around how to register to vote. …
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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. …
Free

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