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People Management & Leadership

Activity type:
- Workshops
Location:
Waitakere

To be a great club or not for profit, you need a great leadership team. This workshop explores building strong leaders and how this inspires a volunteer environment.
We will cover:

Community Planting Co-ordinators Free Training Programme

Activity type:
- Community planting
Location:
Auckland Region

Do you enjoy people, plants and parks?

Want to gain experience managing community planting days as a paid job, volunteer co-ordinator or to start your own local planting project?

Palm Oil Free shopping guide!

Activity type:
- Eco travel/ shopping
Currently, the clearing of rainforests in South East Asia to make way for oil palm plantations is posing a threat to hundreds of animal species including the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, Asian rhino and Asian elephant.  In fact, at the current rate of deforestation, these species could be extinct in the wild by 2022, and many more could follow if this continues.

Manukau Parks Teaching Gardens – Partnerships in action.

Activity type:
- Community gardens
Location:
Manukau

Congratulations to the communities and teams involved with the Teaching Gardens in Manukau. They won the NZ Recreation Association’s “Outstanding Project” Award to recognise excellence, innovation and effectiveness in the provision of a recreation/leisure project in 2010. A great achievement!

Gardening getting away on you?

Location:
Auckland Region
Activity type:
Gardening

GardenGrow will help your planning.   All you have to do is chose your climate zone and info on what to plant will appear.  You can register for email or i-phone updates of what to plant.

Look at the plant list, plant something now and keep your vege garden growing.

2011 Funding Directory

Location:
Auckland Region
Activity type:
- Environmental and heritage funding

The 2011 funding Directory is complete and we are taking orders.

SLC Workshops and Seminars

Activity type:
- Workshops
Location:
Waitakere

The Sustainable Living Centre (SLC) is a project of EcoMatters Environment Trust. For more information on workshop and seminars to be held in the month of April/May please open the attachement.

Crew wanted for Pacific Island research expedition

Activity type:
- Aquatic life
Location:
One national location only

This May we’re teaming-up with international expedition organisation Pangaea Exploration on an important survey of isolated marine environments around the Pacific.


We are currently looking for crew to help provide manpower, technical skills and financial support to the research mission.
 

New free used oil recovery scheme launched

Location:
Auckland Region
Activity type:
- Hazardous waste

Households in the Auckland region can now dispose of their used engine oil for free thanks to a new Oil Recycling Engine Oil Recovery scheme launched this week by Auckland Council in conjunction with industry partners and the support of Government.

WAITAKERE HARVEST FESTIVAL

Activity type:
- Celebrations/ anniversaries
Location:
Waitakere

In 2010 there was a Hui that brought together people working
within our local food network.

In order to share stories, experience and visions, the Hui identified that one of the important goals was to hold Harvest Celebrations
AND SO
We would like to begin organising an Equinox Harvest Festival for April of this year.