Five ways to take part in second-hand September: 1. Choose second-hand before buying new. 2. Donate quality items you no longer need. 3. Repair instead of replace. 4. Swap, borrow or share. 5. Learn to service and maintain. Details here. Image: Auckland Council
By signing this pledge, you will tell all New Zealand political parties that your vote in the election this year depends on their commitment to protecting our natural world and placing the environment high on their agenda. It calls on parties to commit to the core objectives and actions of...
Calls for the dumping of the government’s disastrous new and proposed laws was a repeated focus of discussion at ECO’s AGM, held online on 23 August. The multitude of laws were described as eco-toxic by members at the meeting. Member groups were unanimous that at least five laws or draft...
New Zealand’s largest environment NGOs – Forest and Bird, the Environmental Defence Society and Greenpeace Aotearoa – want to see the Natural Environment Bill and the Planning Bill thrown out. They say the bills are designed to undermine environmental protection in our country and would cause deep and lasting damage to...
New Zealand’s environmental reporting system should not simply document environmental decline, it should require the government to say what it will do about it, says the Environmental Defence Society. EDS has lodged its submission on the Environmental Reporting Amendment Bill. “The Bill contains some genuinely useful improvements, but there are...
A coalition of Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental and climate organisations has delivered a joint open letter to all Members of Parliament, calling on them to back legislation that would permanently prohibit commercial mining across all public conservation land and waters. Civic Trust Auckland is one of those groups. The groups urge...
The Tree Council is calling on the public to contact their local MP and ask them to vote against the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill when it goes for its third reading in a couple of weeks’ time. The protection of urban trees, other than notable trees with historic...
Throughout the year, Auckland Council and its community partners plant hundreds of thousands of native plants to protect and restore our waterways. A new trial on the North Shore in Wairau Valley is testing a Swiss-engineered technology to reduce sediment from stormwater ponds. It aims to lower carbon emissions and has the...
A detailed and well illustrated article about the former Carrington Hospital building, which continues to deteriorate, was published on 10 August by RNZ. That article is here. Protestors continue to gather in front of the building from 11am to midday on Saturdays, highlighting the lack of protection for the building....
More than 30% of what’s put in Auckland’s recycling bins ends up in landfill because it’s contaminated or can’t be recycled in the first place. That’s costing ratepayers $3.5 million a year and preventing valuable materials from being turned into new products. As part of Auckland Council’s Let’s sort it...