A reminder that this week’s Reel Earth screenings begin each evening at 7.30pm, Waikato Environment Centre, Level 1, 25 Ward Street, Hamilton.

Tickets $10 (10% discount for Green Card holders)

Monday 12 September 2011

• River Dog (30 mins) Best NZ Film Award, Best NZ Emerging Talent Award
• SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories (60 mins)

 Tuesday 13 September 2011

• Streams (4 mins)
• Cowboys in India (80 mins) Best Feature Film Award

Wednesday 14 September 2011

• Grow Your Own Awareness (5 mins)
• Deep Green (101 mins) Best Science Communications Award

 Friday 16 September 2011

• A Mongolian Couch (12 mins)
• Tide of Change (12 mins) Best Ultra Short Award
• Landscapes at the World’s End (30 mins) Best NZ Cinematography Award
• Marion Stoddart: The Work of 1000 (30 mins) Best Short Film Award

Waikato Environment Centre

Level 1

25 Ward Street

Hamilton

07 839 4452

admin@envirocentre.org.nz

Thursday 15th September

7.30 at the Chartwell Room, Hamilton Gardens

Speakers: Greg Martin and Neville Ritchie

Join us for Greg's annual lively roundup of DoC activities over the past year, and Neville Ritchie, DoC archaeologist, will talk about the new Pureora Timber Trail and the history of the old tramway.

Everyone welcome. No charge. Supper provided.

Conservation Week Lecture: Maungatautari Ecological Island Project: celebrating a success

Wednesday 14 September 2011, 7.30 pm. Free

Room S.G.01, Gate 8, Waikato University.

Campus map http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map.pdf.

Story of Maungatautari Ecological Island Project through eyes of ecologist, Roger MacGibbon, who has been intimately involved with the project since the very beginning. He will discuss why this project has been, and continues to be, so very important from an ecological restoration perspective and will reveal how substantial the ecological recovery has been over a very short period, despite the political wrangling, financial challenges and negative press.

MASSIVE GARAGE SALE

Fundraiser for Green Party Aotearoa

Massive Garage Sale *TOMORROW* Saturday 10 September, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. at 135 Dey St, Hamilton East, Hamilton.

Books, clothes, native plants, free-range eggs, home baking, LOTS of children's clothes and toys.

Tree Crops Grafting Workshop

Monday 19 September 2011, 7.30pm, Hill Laboratories (1 Clyde Street, Hamilton).

BYO fresh Stanley knife. Rootstocks & scionwood available for a wide range of apple & pear varieties.

Entry fee: Tree Crops members $5., non-members $10. For this you can take home 2 apples or pears (which you have just grafted). Any leftover rootstocks or grafting tape at the end of the evening, will be sold to those interested.

Free

Thursday, 15 September 2011

10am to 12 noon

Waimarie (Hamilton East Community Centre, 53 Wellington Street, Hamilton)

 • We will start with the 3 ways a house uses energy spatial heating and cooling, hot water production and appliances and lighting and how to reduce energy use in all these areas. We will also address how to increase the thermal performance of the building so that occupants can be warm and healthy.

 • Then we’ll take a look at how the house uses the “3 Waters”; supply, storm-water, and waste, and the initiatives we can employ in these areas.

 • We then look at any aspects of the building that may be affecting the occupants’ health. And finally how to do all of this while minimising waste for landfill.

If you are considering retrofitting your house or just have a passing interest please join us.

7 pm, Tuesday 13 September 2011

Educational talk by the Zoo's knowledgeable amphibian keeper, Kara Goddard, followed by a visit to the nocturnal frog house to meet the cryptic nocturnal native Hochstetter’s frogs.

In addition Darren le Roux, a local native bat expert, will talk about bats and there will be an opportunity to use a bat detector on Zoo grounds to identify whether bats are inhabiting the Zoo. You will also get up close and personal with New Zealand’s largest gecko - the nocturnal Duvaucel’s gecko.

Pre booking required – phone Hamilton Zoo 07 838 6720 or email kara.goddard@hcc.govt.nz. Tickets $10pp cash or cheque only (to pay on the night)

FREE-RANGE CHICKEN REARING & PROCESSING WORKSHOP

10am, Saturday 24 September 2011

Locavore property, 67 Pukerimu Lane, Cambridge

Whether you want to rear your own chooks specifically for the table or just want to dispatch those noisy roosters from last season’s broody hens, this workshop will show you all the hands-on skills you’ll need to get the job done.

$40 per person. Places limited to 10.

07 823 4154.

To book places please cut&paste the form below into an email, complete the form and send email to: info@locavore.co.nz. Bookings will not be accepted without payment.

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Terms of Trade: Bookings will not be accepted without full payment. Bookings will be confirmed by email to the address from which they came. If you are attending with others we suggest you forward the confirmation email to them. The workshop will go ahead rain, hail or shine. We reserve the right to refuse bookings. No refunds will be made for cancellations made after Wednesday 21st September 2011. The practical skills undertaken in this workshop can be hazardous; Locavore Ltd and its staff accept no responsibility for injury, loss or damage to attendees or their property. You accept that your attendance is at your own risk.

At Wainui Road, overlooking Manu Bay

Sat. 24th September
Low Maintenance - High Productivity Gardening

10 - 4 workshop at Solscape. $60

 Thoughtful design and timely management of gardens can yield an

abundance of food with very little ongoing maintenance. The productive

and attractive vegetable gardens at Solscape Eco Retreat will be used

as an example of the successful application of a design/management

system developed over the last decade by organic farmer Nelson Lebo.

Some of these strategies were adopted at Rainbow Valley Farm - world

famous permaculture property - after this workshop was presented there

in 2010.

Sun. 25th September

The Principles and Practice of Eco-Thrifty Renovation

 10 - 4 workshop at Solscape. $60

Save energy. Save resources. Save money. This workshop describes and

explains the process of eco-thrifty renovation in two segments. The

first documents the highly successful eco-thrifty renovation of a

villa in Wanganui, and the second applies the eco-thrifty design

principles to a potential "do up" at Solscape Eco Retreat. The

workshop is designed to be highly practical by offering dozens of

examples of eco-thrifty strategies and potential strategies. For a

preview, see: www.ecothriftydoup.blogspot.com

Pre-registration required.

Nelson Lebo

theecoschool@gmail.com

022 635 0868