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Dr Christine Jones Roadshow, 16°

An Earth Food Inc project in Nationwide, New Zealand

Updated in May

In June this year Earth Food Inc will be hosting a two week visit from the world renowned soils ecologist, Dr Christine Jones. In 2001 Christine received a Community Fellowship Award from Land and Water Australia. The LWA Program was designed to ‘provide recognition to individuals with an outstanding track ...

Project about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Emissions, Energy Saving, ETS, Food, Water

Ricoh - Trees For Schools, 85°

A Ricoh New Zealand project in National, New Zealand

Updated in July 2008

Launched in May, Trees for Schools is a Ricoh New Zealand programme where we work with schools around the country to establish schemes for community fundraising selling native plants, in place of other options often high in sugar and fat. We are sourcing New Zealand native seedlings, and subsidising the ...

Project about Education, Environment & Wildlife

Rubbish Free, 15°

Auckland, New Zealand

Updated this month

During 2008, we challenged ourselves to live without creating landfill waste from our home in Christchurch, New Zealand. By the end of our Rubbish Free Year we had collected just 2kg of landfill waste, compared to the 1.5 tons the average couple throws away in NZ. Eighteen months later ...

Project about Education, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution, Recycling, Retail

National Permaculture Day 2010, 26°

Nationwide, New Zealand

Updated in April

September 1st 2010 is National Permaculture Day! Nationwide actions on the day, all for free! Please send us your local events, ideas and suggestions.... Hold a street party, plant a tree, hold a tour of your home/property highlighting how you have integrated Permaculture ethics and principles into your lifestyles ...

Project about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Food, Green energy, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Organic, Permaculture, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Population, Poverty & Development, Recycling, Smart Growth, Solar, Transition Towns, Transport, Travel, Water, Weather

Food for Change, 54°

Global, New Zealand

Updated in November 2009

Causing global change one meal at a time. What we eat locally makes a difference globally. Our mouth is about as local as it gets, so that seems like a good place to start climate changing. Maybe leadership begins with what goes into our mouths, not with what comes out ...

Project about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, Economics, Education, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Genetic Modification, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Recycling, Transport, Water

Share your gardening knowledge, 26°

Nationwide, New Zealand

Updated in September 2009

We're building a database of gardening knowledge for Kiwi's and we need your help. We want to help New Zealanders grow their own organic food in their backyards.

Project about Education, Lifestyle & Behavior, Organic, Permaculture

Spicers and the community, 61°

New Zealand

Updated in September 2009

Spicers is proud to be a part of the local community in New Zealand and actively supports a number of not-for-profit and community groups. We have a long-standing relationship with WWF-New Zealand, whom we support in a variety of ways, including donations from sales of our 9lives range of recycled ...

Project about Children and Families, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Recycling

Support EnviroSchools with Good magazine, 78°

Auckland, New Zealand

Updated in July 2009

Good magazine, with the support of GreenWorks, is donating $9 of every subscription to EnviroSchools. You can subscribe here: www.good.net.nz/subs. Your donation is automatically deducted. EnviroSchools is an amazing programme run largely by teachers in 671 primary and secondary schools. They do a whole range of ...

Project about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Education, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government

Eco-My-Flat, 25°

Christchurch, New Zealand

Updated in August 2008

Eco-my-flat is a four-week competition and workshop programme aimed at helping university students save money and become more eco-friendly. The competition aims to promote sustainable student lifestyles, with a workshop each week covering the themes of energy, waste, transport and consumption. The workshops, run by a professional facilitator, addressed specific ...

Project about Agriculture & Food, Consumerism, Education, Energy Saving, Food, Recycling, Transport

Council for Socially Responsible Investment, 20°

Nation wide, New Zealand

Updated in June 2008

A charitable trust with the purpose of educating and advocating for socially responsible and environmentally sustainable investment. We have been going since 2003.

Project about Education, Environment & Wildlife

Appalachian Offsets, 25°

New Zealand

Updated in June 2008

Appalachian Offsets is a voluntary Carbon Offset program to combat global climate change through local renewable energy and efficiency projects in Western North Carolina. We encourage people to first reduce the amount of greenhouse gas they produce but this is an opportunity to reduce their impact by supporting projects that ...

Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Education

Be The Change, 51°

Nationwide, New Zealand

Updated in November 2007

Be The Change is a NZ based coalition of Greenpeace, Forest & Bird and Oxfam aimed at providing a platform for individuals to become more active in their own lives in reducing their carbon footprint. A big part of the project is creating a climate aware online social networking community at ...

Project about Climate Change, Deforestation, Education, Environment & Wildlife

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