is upping it’s game again, not only by being NZ’s biggest and best (biased yes) street festival, but also in it’s recycling front with an unprecedented 12 recycling stations! They want to show Wellington that they can put on a huge party, without sending a mountain of waste to landfill.
In this interview Newtown Festival programe coordinator, James Coyle talks to about how they are going to do it, why this is good for the event and how we can all help.
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Have you ever wondered how you’d cope if you didn’t own a car? Me too! So in this interview we found four Wellington and Lower Hutt families who, by choice, are car free or nearly car free.
They talk about why, the challenges, tips, and some unexpected benefits of not owning or using their cars.
Many thanks to those who contributed to this interview.
Aaron Packard is one of those guys that gives you faith that the world will be an ok in the future. With Global Divestment Day about to hit this Sat Feb 14th, Aaron gives us an understanding of what it’s all about and also talks about his work at as Oceania’s Region Coordinator which oversees all of 350’s operations across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. And he also founded right here in his home town of Wellington. Wow.
For more on Aarons work with 350.org checkout
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-packard/four-ways-the-pacific-cli_b_6112078.html
It is so exciting to meet bright young Wellington women such as , who is one of the crew leading the 2nd round of the Smart Energy Challenge, that just kicked off last week. The project won a award for last years efforts, in which one of the three successful projects saw crowd fund PV panels onto the Aro Valley Community Hall as part of these citizen led solutions for climate change.
To find out more about how to be involved in the challenge, what makes Gina so motivated and pretty keen on Wellington listen in. But if you’ve got any budding ideas get them in by Feb15th.
more info here http://www.smartenergychallenge.org.nz/
have had a massive impact on New Zealand beaches by educating nearly 110 000 of us about caring for our coasts, as well us getting 35 000 of us to pick up over 1,000,000 million litres of rubbish. Now Welly has our own Sustainable Coastlines representative, a big welcome to Oliver Vetter, who is already very busy leading the campaign through schools, a harbour dive clean up this Saturday and a beach clean up at Makara next Saturday.
In this interview Oliver shares his take on why we have so much rubbish on our beaches, how you can start your own beach clean up through Sustainable Coastlines and even though he has alot of dirty work to do,why he loves his job.
Mandy Coleman is the Wellington coordinator for and the crew, who are back in town with the ocean defender, the Sam Simon. The Sam Simon is docked at the Taranaki St. wharf, preparing for it’s next Antarctic campaign. In this interview we talk with Mandy and her husband Micheal about why they have been so dedicated to the Sea Shepherd Movement for 6 years, the big issues our oceans are facing and what simple actions we can do to help this potentially very fragile situation.
Mandy and Michael also spend a lot of their weekends picking up rubbish from around Wellington’s beaches and do a monthly clean up at Evans Bay beach. Find out more here https://www.facebook.com/events/310566425809314/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
For more on the fundraiser at Bar Bodega on Saturday the 29thhttp://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2014/sea-shepherd-antarctic-fundraiser/wellington
Here is a link to the Forest and Bird Nest Fish Guide http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/best-fish-guide-13-14
I don’t think there are too many landfills that can boast a trout farm, an electricity generation plant as well as their own Bio Grow certified Capital Compost. And I wouldn’t have called the landfill a place I’d want to hang out at for long, but on my quest to find out what happens to my rubbish I met Darren Hoskin’s, our Southern Landfill Operations Manager, who has been working (well hanging out) at our Southern landfill for 21 years. Something in the water?
And you’ll never guess what the biggest resource that could be the next major opportunity for us is….actually you’ll never guess. You’ll have to listen. And it’s not the tyres.