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“100 watt” ECO light bulb (screw fitting) - Uses only 20 watts, lasts up to 9 years (aprox 10,000 hours).
“75 watt” ECO light bulb (screw fitting) - Uses only 15 watts, lasts up to 9 years (aprox 10,000 hours).
$2 each
We're open 10am - 4pm, Monday to Friday. Waikato Environment Centre, Level One, 25 Ward Street, Hamilton
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Increase soil fertility and sequester carbon using biochar.
Dr Paul Taylor is an astrophysicist who has worked at Harvard, NASA and MIT. In the early 1970s he worked at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in the USA alongside people modelling climate change.
Dr Taylor has released a book called “The Biochar Revolution” which he describes as a reference book for anyone interested in biochar and concerned about environmental issues.
Paul is accompanied on an NZ tour by Dennis Enright, current active committee member and former chair of OrganicFarm NZ.
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Waikato University scientists discuss the effects of the Rena oil spill on the environment. Free event, open to the public.
Speakers: Dr Willem de Lange, Dr Karin Bryan, Dr Chris Hendy, Professor Alistair Wilkins and Associate Professor Nick Ling
Waikato University scientists discuss the effects of the Rena oil spill on the environment.
Dr Willem de Lange - senior lecturer in Department Earth & Ocean Sciences. Researching coastal processes and hazards in the Bay of Plenty for the last 30 years. Students from the Department have since early 1970s measured and modelled Bay of Plenty hydrodynamics, which work lead to the establishment of marine ecology as a subject at the University of Waikato.
Dr Karin Bryan - senior lecturer Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences, specialises in coastal waves and circulation and how they move sediment and nutrients in the coastal environment.
Dr Chris Hendy - environmental geochemist, teaching analytical chemistry and geochemistry at Waikato University since 1972. Dr Hendy discovered the problem of the Tui Mine tailings leaching into the Tui Stream and Te Aroha’s drinking water in the 1970s.
Professor Alistair Wilkins - extensive experience in isolation and structure elucidation of organic molecules using GC-MS and NMR techniques which define the 3-D structures of the molecules.
Associate Professor Nick Ling joined Department of Biological Sciences in 1992. His research specialities are the physiology of fish and environmental toxicology.
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BYO walking shoes, plate of finger food to share, and refreshment
RSVP necessary before Wednesday 23 November 2011 to greenme@xtra.co.nz or 021 414 529/07 884 6825.
220 Collie Rd, Te Kowhai. Property is marked with an orange cone (note, GPS can sometimes direct to a dead-end road).
Travelling from ‘south’ Hamilton, take Whatawhata Road, right into Cemetery Road, right onto Horotiu Road (SH 39 north), left onto Blackett Road (becomes Collie Road).
Travelling from ‘north’ Hamilton, turn off State Highway 1 at Te Kowhai Road (The Base), right at Limmer Rd/Te Kowhai Rd intersection, left in village (corner Horotiu and Te Kowhai Roads travelling south on SH39), right into Bedford Road. Collie Road is third.
Graham talks about his home here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF8KNAnpdvE
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(Please reply to the Massey University contact below, not to the Waikato Environment Centre)
Massey University students, from the Auckland campus, are conducting research on tui. In order to understand the degree of gene flow between populations, one aspect they are focusing upon is genetic population structure in different regions of New Zealand.
For this study they need samples of tui from the Hamilton area and would like to hear from anyone in Hamilton who feed tui using sugar-water feeders.
PhD student Sarah Wells will contact those who reply. Sarah will provide details about the study and the methods of catching tui and obtaining sample in order to help people decide whether they could be included in this study,
Please reply by email to J.J.Weihong@massey.ac.nz ( Dr Weihong Ji, Senior Lecturer, Human-Wildlife Interactions Research Group, Institute of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Albany, Auckland).
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In 2010 Sustainable Waikato assessed the sustainability views of local body election candidates. This year Sustainable Waikato assessed sustainability policies and track record of NZ's 8 main political parties, and views of Hamilton East and West candidates.
The party assessment results are available at http://www.sustainablewaikato.org.nz/candidates.html.
Candidate data will be added by 21 November 2011.
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Students from Tauwhare and Puahue schools recently represented Waikato Enviroschools at a Kids Teaching Kids conference in Adelaide. They will provide an opportunity to hear their presentation:
which addresses issues facing Waikato waterways and what can be done to improve water ecosystem health. Students will also share highlights of their conference experience and answer questions about it.
Please put aside an hour for this inspiring example of young people developing knowledge and skills to influence the health of our environment.
BOOK NOW! Phone Waikato Museum 07 838 6606 to reserve your seat!
www.waikatomuseum.co.nz
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Organised by Te Kowhai school, a rare opportunity to visit a number of private gardens within the Te Kowhai/Horitiu area, a number of which feature productive gardens. Of interest to anyone wishing to view not only gardens but also Graham & Di's sustainable house which is simply amazing.
For full details contact: Tony Grey (Principle, Te Kowhai School)
07 8297860
tonyg@tekowhai.school.nz www.tekowhai.school.nz
Visit the Gardens, see the water lilies, and enjoy a bush walk to the ‘Seven Stairs to Heaven’. Donations welcomed, and will be given to Thames Coast Kiwi Care.
Sorry, dogs not permitted
07 868 4821
