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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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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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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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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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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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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! …
Free
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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 …
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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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The MacDiarmid Lecture: Good News for a Change: Sustainability tech in Aotearoa New Zealand and the science behind it

The 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 on the sustainability crisis facing the world today with speakers Prof Paul Kruger and Courtney Ennis. Come and hear about …

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

The 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?  With advances in the range of electric vehicles, a snowballing range of available models, and progressive improvements in the …
$3
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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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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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