Join the trail, organised by the Mt Albert Growers & Gardeners group, with 30 edible gardens across two days. The sustainable garden trail focus is on edible plants and the journey towards sustainability. Follow your GPS to the various private and community gardens on the list in Mt Eden, Morningside...
September 22nd is World Car Free Day, a movement that started in 2000. People who usually travel by car are encouraged to walk, cycle, or take public transport instead. Gen Less has some tips to get your workplace exploring other modes of transport for this day, find them here.
Park(ing) Day is a global event on the third Friday in September, sometimes continuing through the weekend. Parking spaces are repurposed, converted into parks, social spaces, dining rooms, art installations, etc. Streets are reimagined as safer, greener and more equitable spaces. You can make your own parklet, or wander the...
Fridays for Future are promoting a week of climate action from the 18th to 24th of September. Watch their Facebook page for more details.
The theme for this year’s festival is Peace, Love and Protest. There are over 160 events across Tāmaki Makaurau, many of them free. The programme can be found here: http://www.heritagefestival.co.nz/ Hard copies of the programme will be available in early September. The Civic Trust Auckland event is “For the Love...
The Auckland Climate Festival Te Huinga Aahuarangi o Taamaki Makaurau is being held throughout September. More than 150 events will be on offer. They include: Auckland Climate Festival’s free opening event, a dawn ceremony at the Auckland Botanic Gardens, centred around the theme: Ancestor, We. Ngaa hua o Wai. A live...
The Environmental Defence Society is running a political forum aimed at revealing environment, conservation, oceans and climate change policies of the main parties. Key speakers will explain who will invest in conservation and who will defund it. Will there be more or less pollution? More or fewer extinctions? Who will...
Michael Hanne asks how climate activists can “frame” discussion more effectively to turn public anxiety into upward pressure on government to act. He analyses the presentations of the previous speakers in the Our Climate Declaration series, assembling a repertoire of the most effective devices they use to talk about the...
