Sustainable Living (inc. gardening)

Self sufficiency on a Shoestring

7:00pm
Sep
07
9:00pm
Sep
07

SELF-SUFFICIENCY ON A SHOE-STRING BUDGET - Want to grow your own fresh fruit and vegetables but don’t know where to start? Join NZGardener magazine’s entertaining editor-at-large Lynda Hallinan for expert tips aboutself-sufficiency on a shoestring budget. Find out how to reduce waste, stop usingchemicals, save cash and save the planet – and have fun doing it.

Growing tasty & Nutritious Vegetables and Grow your own seeds

9:30am
Aug
28
4:30pm
Aug
28

Growing Great Food - Learn how to produce vegetables that are full of flavor, nutrition & goodness for you and your family and grow the seed to support this!

THEATRE GOES GREEN FOR EXTREME ANTARCTIC TALE

8:00pm             10:00pm
Recurring event

HEAT By Lynda Chanwai-Earle - Unlike other conventional theatre shows HEAT uses self-sustainable energy means - powered off-grid with lights, sound and electronics from low drain and/or renewable energy. This unique Spacewise energy installation on site at the theatre is a world first.

THEATRE GOES GREEN FOR EXTREME ANTARCTIC TALE

7:00pm             9:00pm
Recurring event

HEAT By Lynda Chanwai-Earle - Unlike other conventional theatre shows HEAT uses self-sustainable energy means - powered off-grid with lights, sound and electronics from low drain and/or renewable energy. This unique Spacewise energy installation on site at the theatre is a world first.

First Tuesday-Transforming the Suburbs:Young Voices Moving us Forward into Sustainability

7:00pm
Aug
03
9:00pm
Aug
03

"Transforming the suburbs: young voices moving us forward into sustainability"

In this talk 22 year old John Darroch will recap his experiences turning an abandoned house in central Auckland into a permaculture oasis. John will talk about experiments with Greywater systems, composting toilets, and rooftop gardening. From this John will show how we all have the power to begin building a new world from the ground up.

Sustainable Living on a Budget

7:00pm
Jul
06
9:00pm
Jul
06

Stay warm! Live healthier! SAVE MONEY!

Jennifer Kerr is a qualified Chartered Accountant who more recently, following her passion for sustainability, contracted to the Sustainable Living Education Trust as the North Island Coordinator. Sustainable Living offers independent practical information and courses on how to trim carbon emissions, save money and create a healthier lifestyle.

Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop

1:00pm
Jul
03
3:00pm
Jul
03

At Ranui Community Garden - Come and gain a practical experience in pruning fruit trees.

Growing Good Food

9:30am
Aug
28
9:30am
Aug
28

Learn how to produce vegetables that are full of flavour, nutrition & goodness for you and your family and grow the seed to support this.

Colin Walker is offering 9 x 1 day sessions over a year to support you in learning the priciples and developing the practical skills need to grow your own vegetables and seed using ecological design and a biological approch.

Hobsonville Plant Network Grand Opening

10:00am
Jun
12
10:00am
Jun
12

First Tuesday: Kaitiakitanga in the concrete Jungle--Safeguarding the Future of our Environment

7:00pm
May
04
9:00pm
May
04

Interested in living more sustainably?
Then come along to the “First Tuesday” sustainability speakers series and hear from a stunning line-up of experts on environmental sustainability in the urban environment. This series aims to highlight the ways that people in the city can still have a positive impact on the environment.