FOR BOOKINGS Please email admin@envirocentre.org.nz

EnviroEXpo Winner of the Ecostore Pamper Pack

Congratulations to Stephanie Bright winner of our Enviroexpo pamper pack . Prize being given by our Project Manager Anna Cox and accepted on behalf of Stephanie by Jono.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY FOR SATURDAY 7th MAY.

For something a little different, try a food foraged gift idea for Mum !

Permaculture Design Courses Coming Up

This Saturday 7th May at the Centre a Not to Be Missed

Introduction to Permaculture Module 1 by Paul Murray

Permaculture is about much more than organic gardening. It looks at the patterns and relationships we find in nature and how these can be
applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even communities and economics.

Permaculture Module 4 Landscape & Site Assessment 

Liz Stanway and Rick Thorpes Saturday 14th May

This workshop helps you to apply the principle “Observe and Interact” with a focus on nature, learning the relationships and patterns which play a part in the way the landscape is formed and managed.
You will learn some practical techniques for observation; measuring and recording landforms; sectors and aspects as well as how to gather the information required to complete a landscape and site assessment.

Living the dream!

Please contact: permaculture@envirocentre.org.nz

HOME ORCHARD WORKSHOP

14 and 15 May 2016

Join Sheryn Clothier for the weekend of 14/15 May to discuss all the aspects regarding planning your home orchard and work on your own design in a group. As well as your own orchard design, we will work on selecting the right varieties for your situation, sourcing plants, shelter, planting methods, understories, fertiliser programmes, machinery and management.

There are a lot of factors to take into account and spending some time to get in right at the beginning is really worthwhile. The focus is on a creating a diverse home orchard for climates in the BOP, Waikato and South Auckland districts. For further details see http://www.lals.nz/planning-the-home-orchard.html

Sheryns last workshop group

FOREST & BIRD ACTIVITIES

Native Plant Sale Saturday 7th May

 Beginning at 8am (not before), finishing when the plants are all sold. 

88 Nixon St, Hamilton East – please park on the roadside.

There is a wide range of good quality trees and shrubs: titoki, coprosma, kahikatea, cabbage tree, puka, lacebark, pukatea, manuka, mahoe, matipo, harakeke, ribonwood, lancewood, kowhai…

Walk on Pirongia, 8^th May. Meet at the Grey Rd carpark at 9.45am.

The Mahaukura Track starts at the Grey Road carpark and climbs through tawa forest to Wharauroa Lookout (2-3 hrs). The last 30 m before the view point are quite steep and chains have been bolted to the rock to guide you. Great views from the lookout.

From Whatawhata, cross the bridge and turn left onto Te Pahu Rd. Continue well on towards Pirongia. Turn right onto Rosborough Rd and then right onto Grey Rd (carpark at end).

Please contact Jane if you would like or can offer a seat: jane.mcleod@gmail.com; 078562505 or text: 0211467789

MONTY'S SURPRISE APPLES NOW AVAILABLE AT THE ENVIRONMENT  CENTRE

Kaivolution Call out For Aid

Can you help?

Kaivolution has recently taken on new supermarket clients .

Currently our drivers are so stretched picking up bread up that they are unable to deliver to our outlying areas.

Do you travel on a weekly or daily basis to our rural neighbours … Ngaruawahia, Huntly, Te Awamutu,  Morrinsville or Raglan. Can you fill your car with food and help the charities in these areas?

Every little bit helps!

please email : kaivolution@envirocentre.org.nz

Voice for the environment, Centre for learning,

Catalyst for change

INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE ETHICS AND PRINCIPLES

Tutor: Paul Murray

When done right, permaculture is a route to abundance in the garden. However, permaculture is about much more than organic gardening. It looks at the patterns and relationships we find in nature and how these can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even communities and economics.

This workshop will explore realistic opportunities and priorities for reducing your ecological footprint while designing abundance into your life. It will provide an essential and foundational understanding of Permaculture as a discipline, a paradigm, and/or a philosophy on which design projects are based. By the end of this module, students will have considered the main global and local issues facing communities and clarified the scope of permaculture in resolving them.

When: Saturday, 7 May; 9am¬–5pm.

Where: Waikato Environment Centre, Hamilton.

Fee: $135 (Discount available for WEC members).

Note: This session can be attended as a workshop or be credited towards a Permaculture Design Certificate (Module 1).

To find out more or register contact permaculture@envirocentre.org.nz or call us on 839 4452.

Karioi Volunteer Opportunity - Technical support – mapping and monitoring

A volunteer position has come up within our team to provide technical support – for monitoring and mapping for the Karioi project. The work is mainly to provide assistance for setting up new trap lines, GPS work and ongoing mapping requirements. Ideally this person will have the relevant knowledge of GPS and GIS mapping software – but some traning can be provided.

Other work opportunities with the project may also be available depending on interest and time availability.

Please contact kristel.vanhoute@arocha.org for more info and expressions of interest.

Taupo Community Food Meeting next week.

This is an exciting opportunity to meet with other people in Taupo who want to make healthy food more affordable and accessible, support education about cooking, growing and healthy eating, and who want to support local and sustainable food businesses. Its open to anyone and everyone, so come along and share your ideas for how Taupo’s food environment could be improved.

If you are an early learning setting or school who is doing a Heart Foundation programme (Heart Start or Healthy Heart Award), being involved in this network will count towards getting your award! Please help us by sharing with your networks/students/families.

RSVP to Dana Thompson: dana.thompson@bopdhb.govt.nz

Taupo Communtiy Food Meeting Flyer FINAL.pdf

LAW FOR LUNCH

An Introduction into the Privacy Act:

The seminar aims to introduce you to the key concepts and definitions contained in the Privacy Act. We will look at the 12 information privacy principals and look briefly at the consequences if there is a breach of the Privacy Act and the complaints process followed by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

Time: 12:15-1pm

Where: Level 3, Central Library, Garden Place

Date: Friday 13 May 2016

 http://www.hamiltonlibraries.co.nz/

HAMMOND BUSH WORKING BEE

Please join us this Saturday afternoon from 1-3 pm for a working bee in Hammond Bush.

We'll be working mainly up the Malcolm St end of the boardwalk, so meet by the sign there.

It will be a bit swampy, so please wear suitable footwear. Long-sleeved old clothes are best, with gardening gloves.

Please bring secateurs, loppers or hedgeclippers if you have them (secateurs probably most helpful).

If anyone spots some abandoned red secateurs in the bush, they are probably mine, please grab them and let me know!

Best wishes,

Andrea

Conservation Inc 2 Registration

There is now less than a month to go before we launch Conservation Inc 2. Be sure to register very soon. We’ve made it easy for you to do that on-line at

http://yellow-eyedpenguin.org.nz/conservationinc/register-online

Attending Conservation Inc 2 gives you the chance to meet with others in the conservation environment. Places are filling quickly and there is only three weeks until registration closes.

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FREE RETAIL FURNITURE LOCATED CAMBRIDGE

Looking for free furniture please contact Jane Jane.Coxhead@waipadc.govt.nz

POWER TO CHANGE WORKSHOP

Shama is hosting an exciting five-week workshop called ‘Power to Change’ from the 2nd of May 2016. This workshop is designed to help ethnic women be empowered, learn about their rights, prevent domestic violence and learn strategies and tips for facing conflicts in life and with their families.

Participation is free and morning tea will be provided so please spread the word within your networks. This is a workshop opportunity not to be missed! If you have any questions, please contact me on (07) 843 3810

Shaleshni Sharma

Office Administrator

Shama Hamilton Ethnic Women's Centre Trust

Power to change flyer 2016 - email distribution.pdf

WAIWHAKAREKE WORKING BEE SATURDAY 30th APRIL

Reminder re Saturday 30th April at Waiwhakareke

Please meet opposite the Zoo at 9am for the last releasing before we start the 2016 planting programme.

Bring gumboots, weeding tools and morning tea.

Power to change flyer 2016 - email distribution.pdf

 Free Paper is now On

The No Throw Website

useful for artwork, tablecloths, notepaper, wallpaper, origami...whew!

Please visit

http://www.nothrow.co.nz/

NEW IN THE CENTRE

For the discerning tree owner.  We now have The Tree Necklace from local artist Tanya Hollatz.

Crafty people: Donate your scrap material!

We are looking for the sewing and crafting leftovers in your fabric stash. Most crafters will have a stash of material left over from projects that are never going to be used. We'd love to have some of that material for a project that we are working on.

We are hoping to turn unwanted fabric into draft stoppers that can be used in cold, breezy homes. We'll be running a Warm up for Winter event in June so need to get needles working soon if these are going to be ready on time. In addition to fabric we need material for stuffing.

Please contact Sarah at the Waikato Environment Centre for more information and if you can help us out by providing fabric or stuffing: 07 839 4452 or permaculture@envirocentre.org.nz

We also need volunteers who would like to help us to sew. I would love to hear from you if you can give some time to bring your machine along to a few cutting and sewing sessions.

FOREST AND BIRD AGM TONIGHT!!

Thursday 21st April, 7.30 Chartwell Room, Hamilton Gardens

Speaker: Rob Fenwick CNZM

‘Predator Free NZ – a lifeline for kiwi’

All Welcome!

Rob will talk about one of the most ambitious conservation projects undertaken in NZ – ambitious, but achievable.

New Zealand has extraordinary native flora and fauna. It sustains us, it helps our tourism industry to thrive, and we identify with it. However, every single decade more of our species are listed as endangered. DOC estimates that 25 million birds die per year through predation by mammalian pests. There are now billions of rats and millions of stoats and feral cats causing devastation around the country. We need to work together, all of us, to halt the decline.

A trustee of Predator Free NZ, Rob is also Chairman of Kiwis for Kiwi, Antarctica New Zealand, Greenlane Biogas Ltd and New Zealand Waste Advisory Board. He’s an advisory board member on NEXT Foundation, Westpac and Air NZ and a director of EnviroMark Ltd.

Rob was made Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Conservation and he has an Honorary Doctorate in Natural Resources from Lincoln University. Fenwick Piedmont in Antarctica is named after him.

Rob Fenwick is a passionate environmental entrepreneur.

Rob has held governance roles with many organisations including Landcare Research, TVNZ, St John, Antarctica NZ, NZBCSD and Ngati Whatua Orakei, was a finalist in this year’s New Zealander of the Year Awards, and was recently inducted into the Business Hall of Fame.

Waikato Vital Signs 2016 Invitation

Click here for further information

HAMILTON CITY COUNCIL FEEDBACK REQUEST

After adopting the Biking Plan last year Hamilton City Council are looking for feedback on biking in Hamilton through a short survey. Take a couple of minutes to let us know what you think and you will be helping us as we plan for the future.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BikeHamilton2016

NZ Association for Environmental Education latest news

KiwEENews 18.pdf

Tunes of Sustainability – Tuesday April 26th

What do ukuleles (and music in general) have to do with sustainability? Fun, celebration, building connections, reclaiming your cultural music…Come along and find out – and have some fun making music!

Waikato Sustainability Network – Tuesday the 26th of April 2016, 12-1.30pm at the Waikato Environment Centre

Alice Bulmer will bring plenty of spare ukuleles and chord charts. Beginners and experienced players are all welcome

VACANCIES

NATURAL RESOURCES & POLICY MANAGER

Tuwharetoa Maori Trust Board

This is a unique management role whose primary focus is to deliver the implementation of a resource management strategy, as it pertains to Taupo Waters and the Upper Waikato River. It will require strong relationships with Central and Local Government in the development of policies and legislation that impact on our resources. As such, the Manager will be expected to provide professional and technical advice and support to the organisation in the formulation of its strategies, policies and responses to the Crown.

Applications close 18 April.

http://gregtims.co.nz/jobs-2/view/natural-resources-policy-manager/

ADMINISTRATION AND WEBSITE COORDINATOR

This 0.6 position is currently being advertised. See the attached advertisement.

Applications close 19 April.

UOW vacancy.pdf

The RAP Workshop

Thursday 19th and Friday 20th May 2016

at the Western Community Centre –

46 Hyde ave, Hamilton

RAP is an application of the Circle of Courage model of positive

youth development described by Larry Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg

and Steve Van Bockern in their book Reclaiming Youth at Risk.

Please see attached

Rap Workshop - Hamilton (3).pdf

YWCA Hamilton and Shama Ignite Programme

19 to 22nd April

Details attached

YWCA-1.pdf

MINI SEMINAR

Natural Step are putting on a mini-seminar next week aimed at people involved in sustainability and change, but of interest to busy people in general!

Have you ever wished you could clone yourself, or some of your team? Or wondered how you could be in two places at once? The truth is that driven people wanting to make a real difference often feel overloaded, and stretched thin like an elastic band. Can you even imagine how you'd get more done in less time, whilst actually feeling less stressed?

Of course, you can carry on doing things the way you've always done them. Or, in just 1.5 hours you could consider some new options. You'll listen as Jasmax and Kiwi Experience tell their stories of future-fit success in achieving what was previously thought improbable. And then watch as leadership-influence expert Daniel Batten shows us all how to use the same training techniques as professional athletes who, like you, want nothing less than gold. We're sure you'll want to stay longer for a drink, as the buzz of inspiration vibrates around a room full of your network and friends.

The FFTF format this year is for smaller, more intimate events - so places are limited. If you want to join us BOOK HERE

Energy & Technology Workshop

This Saturday - April 16th. 

Do you ever dream of living off-grid or using energy more efficiently in you home, office or community?

If so,  this Energy and Technology permaculture design workshop is just for YOU as you'll need to know about energy - energy efficiency, appropriate technology, energy storage, transport, as well the 4 Rs - reduce, re-use, recycle and repair.

In this workshop, you will explore the types of energy found in nature, and delve into energy analysis and the life-cycle of energy. You will also be given examples of appropriate technologies (high and low tech solutions), transport and energy alternatives as well as energy storage (both site specific and community based systems) and be able to identify the next improvement you can make in your home, workplace or community.

The workshop (Saturday April 16th) will be held on an off-grid permaculture property so there will be an opportunity to see lots of alternative energy technology being used in a homestead setting. Get in touch if you would like to join in the fun. This can be attended as a stand-alone workshop or as part of the modular PDC.

To find out more contact Sarah at permaculture@envirocentre.org.nz or by phone 07 839 4452.

Climate Change and Health 

Tonight, 5.30pm, Western Community Centre

Emily Rushton is speaking tonight (April 12th), 5.30pm, at The Western Community Centre. Moved by the climate injustice she saw in rural Asia, New Zealander and registered nurse Emily Rushton decided to do something about it. Using the best and most up-to-date research she could find and on behalf of the OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health Council, Emily is aiming to educate health professionals and communities so we can help ourselves as well as others and learn to live more sustainably. Don't miss her!! Low carbon snacks proivded.