This Saturday May 26th join the Kiwi Conservation Club (KCC) for a family friend...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:31:41 +0100

This Saturday May 26th join the Kiwi Conservation Club (KCC) for a family friendly planting day at Waitoetoe Park, behind Buick Crescent in Palmerston North.

Meet 11am to dig holes with Friends of Waitoetoe Park and Forest & Bird. KCC will join the groups at 1pm to plant - followed by BBQ about 2pm!

To get there: you could walk downstream along the riverside path from the Esplanade until you see a bunch of people working hard alongside the track somewhere behind Buick Cresc, or drive to Buick Cresc just past Sharon Place and walk through the access way towards the river and head downstream on the riverside path.

They hope to see you at this dig gig enjoying this wonderful autumn weather, keeping fit and having a social time, all for free!

For more info contact Rowan Bell 06 354 1811 or Viv McGlynn 06 353 2305

Tomorrow: Frocks on Bikes ride from Bunnythorpe; Edwards Pit Park working party;...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:28:42 +0100

Tomorrow: Frocks on Bikes ride from Bunnythorpe; Edwards Pit Park working party; Native plant growing with A Rocha. Read more about all these opportunities and more through the ENM event calendar available at http://enm.org.nz/


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Parade today! ... at 3:00 p.m., leaving from Te Manawa, immediately following th...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:26:37 +0100

Parade today! ... at 3:00 p.m., leaving from Te Manawa, immediately following the State of the Environment Report Launch.

Environmental artists Junk & Disorderly will be creating a series of sculptures in the Te Manawa foyer using rubbish collected from the Manawatu River Edge.

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:41:51 +0100

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Care to join a planting project? There are nearby opportunities this weekend a...

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:46:03 +0100

Care to join a planting project?

There are nearby opportunities this weekend and next ...

Sunday, 5 May, 1:30-3:30. Contact A Rocha, John Flenley, manawatu@arocha.org or 06-357-6844.

Saturday, 11 May, 2013, with Forest and Bird Rangitikei at Duddings Lake. Contact Ian Williams (06) 327-8697.

Come along to our Special General Meeting next MONDAY evening (April 29). This...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:38:13 +0100

Come along to our Special General Meeting next MONDAY evening (April 29).

This will be held at the Palmerston North Community Leisure Centre on Ferguson Street. We'll share drinks/nibbles and networking time at 5:15, with the meeting commencing at 5:45pm.

All are welcome. For more information, including meeting papers and agenda, send Sally an email. We'll have copies of these available at the meeting.

Calling all birders! ... On Saturday, Forest and Bird Horowhenua will be monitor...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:35:59 +0100

Calling all birders! ... On Saturday, Forest and Bird Horowhenua will be monitoring birds at Booth's Wetland in North Otaki.

For details and to register your interest contact Geoff Monk 364 5986.

Sunday April 21: Native plant growing with A Rocha - fortnightly meeting and wor...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:26:30 +0100

Sunday April 21: Native plant growing with A Rocha - fortnightly meeting and working bee

A Rocha Manawatu is the local branch of the New Zealand division of A Rocha, which is the Christian conservation organization that now exists in 20 countries. Its aim is to enhance care for the living world and its environment among all people worldwide.

The local branch grows native plants for local planting projects and additional volunteers would be very welcome (you don’t need to be a church-goer to get involved).
* They usually meet at the Plant Propagation Unit behind the Longburn Adventist College, Walkers Road, Longburn.
* For more info email manawatu@arocha.org or phone contact available on ENM web site calendar.

Sunday April 21: Edwards Pit Park Working Party Help develop the Featherston St...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:25:21 +0100

Sunday April 21: Edwards Pit Park Working Party

Help develop the Featherston St Pit into a community park that Palmerston North can be proud of. Working parties are held every third Sunday afternoon of the month - starting at 1.30 pm and finishing around 3pm with a cup of tea. All welcome.

The Pit Park is at the Vogel Street end of Featherston Street, with entry just before Tweed Street. For more information, check them out on Facebook. Phone contacts available on the ENM web site calendar.

Sunday April 21: Frocks on Bikes - bike ride! Frocks on Bikes are planning ano...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:24:08 +0100

Sunday April 21: Frocks on Bikes - bike ride!

Frocks on Bikes are planning another group bike ride which will take about 1.5 hours and is suitable for beginners.

Meet at 3pm meeting outside the dairy at Bunnythorpe. All welcome. To find out more about the route and for other info email Helena at frocksonbikespn@gmail.com


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Saturday April 20: Daffodil bulb planting in the Olsson Community Orchard 10:00...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:23:18 +0100

Saturday April 20: Daffodil bulb planting in the Olsson Community Orchard

10:00 a.m. – Community working bee


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Bulb Planting at the Olsson Orchard -- 10:00 a.m. Saturday 20 AprilSubmitted by RECAP admin on 8 April 2013 - 3:39pmCall for volunteers!We've had 200 daffodil and jonquil bulbs donated for the Olsson Orchard. These will look great around trees and add to the bee habitat. Please come join us in plant...

Saturday April 20: “Thinking Like A Swale” (Whanganui) 9:00-5:00. Advanced Perm...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:22:35 +0100

Saturday April 20: “Thinking Like A Swale” (Whanganui)

9:00-5:00. Advanced Permaculture Workshop taught by Nelson Lebo, PhD. $100 includes organic lunch and tea.

Water has been a teacher to humanity for millennia. Now that humanity faces unprecedented challenges, water remains our teacher, particularly in the form of the humble yet powerful swale. Beyond its function of slowing the flow of water through a landscape, the swale can be used as the design inspiration for sustainable homes, abundant small-scale food production, community resilience, teaching and learning, and more. This workshop provides examples of ‘thinking like a swale’ and encourages participants to engage this type of thinking in their own lives and communities.

Thursday April 18: Ruud Kleinpaste lecture on biodiversity and ecological servic...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:21:56 +0100

Thursday April 18: Ruud Kleinpaste lecture on biodiversity and ecological services

1:30-3:00 College Street Normal School. $10.00 for lecture ticket and tea. See http://ultranet.csn.school.nz/Home/ for booking information.

The Bug Man, Ruud Kleinpaste will be at CSNS all day on Thursday the 18th of April. The afternoon will be devoted to Ruud giving a public presentation in our hall commencing at 1.30pm on biodiversity. In his own words: “It will be about biodiversity and its value to all of us. It’ll be about ecological systems and ecological services. It’ll be about how this world is a slippery slope to species loss etc. Sounds awfully negative eh? It could be fun, you know – there’s things to think about for our future and the future of our children!”

As well as being wonderfully knowledgeable he is a great entertainer. Meet Ruud personally afterwards over a cup of tea or coffee.

Fun & Thrifty DIY Household Cleaning Products Tuesdays, 16th April and 23rd Apr...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:47:31 +0100

Fun & Thrifty DIY Household Cleaning Products

Tuesdays, 16th April and 23rd April, 7-8 pm at the Te Manawa River Exhibit.

Register and come along for fun, learning, a cleaner river ... and (as if that weren't enough) maybe even a spot prize!

For more information and to register please visit http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2013/diy-detergent-workshop-te-manawa-river-exhibit/palmerston-north or you can RSVP by email to greenhub.manawatu@gmail.com

Tuesday April 16: “Are our dunes as simple as they seem? Insights after two deca...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:39:32 +0100

Tuesday April 16: “Are our dunes as simple as they seem? Insights after two decades of investigations”

Dr. Jill Rapson (Massey University) will give the Royal Society Manawatu Lecture for 2013

“Turning your back on the sea when at the beach opens up a dynamic and stressful environment, full of challenges for the plants which live there, many of which live nowhere else. The dunelands are also full of challenges for scientists attempting to understand them, and the Manawatu dunes seem more complicated than most. In this talk, Jill Rapson will review two decades of research and the ideas which have come and gone in terms of explaining the duneland's dynamics.”

From 7.30 pm at Te Manawa Art Gallery, 326 Main Street, Palmerston North

All welcome!

If you're looking for something to do this evening, there's lots on in Levin and...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:37:50 +0100

If you're looking for something to do this evening, there's lots on in Levin and Palmerston North:

* Green Dreeks in Levin, 5 pm, Whispers Cafe

* “Cars, cats, climate change and other neglected problems of animal welfare and conservation” -- ANZCCART lecture from David Fraser, Professor in the Animal Welfare Program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, 6 pm, Te Manawa, PN

* Forest & Bird Horowhenua AGM & Public Meeting: Forest & Bird’s 90th Anniversary, 7:30 p.m. Red Cross Rooms 524 Queen Street, Levin.

This Sunday April 14th families with curious kids are invited to join the Kiwi C...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:05:11 +0100

This Sunday April 14th families with curious kids are invited to join the Kiwi Conservation Club to survey invertebrates in the Kahuterawa Stream.

Find out how clean our waterways are and what's living in them - a whole lot more than fish and eels!

Meet at 2pm at the car park at the end of Kahuterawa Valley Road. If the weather is good make a day of it and enjoy the beautiful area and check out the Sledge Track in the morning, followed by a picnic lunch in the picnic area before starting the survey. Bring along your gumboots, sun cream, warm jersey/jacket, and an ice cream container to collect your samples.

Cost is $3 per family (pay on day). Non-members are welcome. For bookings, phone Cherie 06 322 1426 or 027 331 9079 or email: cheriefenemor@yahoo.com.

More about KCC at http://www.kcc.org.nz/


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Wednesday April 10: Forest & Bird Rangitikei - AGM and talk by Dave Angove on Wi...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:52:20 +0100

Wednesday April 10: Forest & Bird Rangitikei - AGM and talk by Dave Angove on Wild Animal Conservation Work in South Africa

From 7.30 p.m. at Milne Room, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Broadway, Marton

Visitors welcome! Your gold coin donation at meetings is appreciated

This workshop will be repeated on Tue more Tuesdays, 16th and the 23rd of April....

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:51:42 +0100

This workshop will be repeated on Tue more Tuesdays, 16th and the 23rd of April.

Tuesday April 9: DIY Household Cleaning Products

As part of the new PNCC “Love Your River” Campaign, the three remaining “fun thrifty” workshops on how to make your own detergent and household cleaning products will be held in Palmerston North on April 9th, 16th and 23rd. Classes will be held from 8-9pm at the Te Manawa River Exhibit – Te Awa (same building as the Te Manawa Museum Gallery Science Centre).

For more information and to register please visit http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2013/diy-detergent-workshop-te-manawa-river-exhibit/palmerston-north or you can RSVP by email to greenhub.manawatu@gmail.com


DIY Detergent Workshop - Te Manawa River Exhibit
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Environmental feature film "The Whale" currently screening at Cinema Gold in PNt...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:03:38 +0100

Environmental feature film "The Whale" currently screening at Cinema Gold in PNth.
Interested in animal and marine conservation? You may want to check out this film. The Whale tells the true life story of Luna, a young orca who lost contact with his family and tried to befriend humans in a remote fjord on the coast of British Columbia. The film is promoted by Antidote Films and you can find out more on their website at www.antidotefilms.com.au/details.php?filmid=4437
You can also see reviews at www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10873786 and at
www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2549954/film-review-with-sarah-mcmullan


Antidote - by Gil Scrine Films
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One day we humans may meet an intelligent being from another world. Hollywood tells us this stranger will come flying down in a spaceship, and will look a bit like us. But maybe it won’t be like that. Maybe it will be like this. -- Ryan Reynolds, in The Whale

Tomorrow night Paul Horton will speak on the topic: "Working as an environmental...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:42:59 +0100

Tomorrow night Paul Horton will speak on the topic: "Working as an environmental officer for the invisible iwi of Rangitaane o Manawatu (ROM)"

Paul's talk will follow the Forest & Bird Manawatu AGM (which should be brief!)

When: Tuesday, 09 April 2013, 7.30 pm
Where: Sound and Vision Zone, Palmerston North Central City Library (Ground Floor)
Please enter from George Street

A PNCC-made video from member group RECAP's March compost workshop. http://youtu...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:28:07 +0100

A PNCC-made video from member group RECAP's March compost workshop.
http://youtu.be/Bf1DFeZCgxA


Permaculture Design Course - Palmerston North City Council & RECAP
Permaculture Design Course - Palmerston North City Council and RECAP

Thursday 21st: public meeting about proposed RMA and freshwater reforms The gov...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:10:15 +0100

Thursday 21st: public meeting about proposed RMA and freshwater reforms

The government will present current proposals for both resource management reform (submissions close April 2nd) and freshwater reform (submissions close April 8th) at public meetings and hui throughout the country.

Meeting in Palmerston North:
When: 12 - 2 pm, next Thursday March 21st
Where: Kingsgate Hotel, 110 Fitzherbert Ave

You do not need to RSVP for this meeting.

More info at:

http://www.mfe.govt.nz/rma/reform/phase-two/2013-consultation.html
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/water/freshwater/freshwater-reform-2013/index.html


Resource management reform 2013: have your say | Ministry for the Environment
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The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is New Zealand's main piece of legislation that sets out how we should manage our environment - find out more.

Learn how to make your own environmentally friendly detergents and cleaning prod...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:37:27 +0100

Learn how to make your own environmentally friendly detergents and cleaning products and save money too!
Janice Feyen of the Green Hub will run four free “fun thrifty” workshops on how to make your own detergent and household cleaning products. The workshops will be held in Palmerston North on April 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd.

Classes will be held 8-9pm at the Te Manawa River Exhibit – Te Awa (same building as the Te Manawa Museum Gallery Science Centre).

The workshops are part of the recently launched PNCC “Love Your River” Campaign - an education campaign aimed at improving the health of the city’s water ways by highlighting the link between the health of the Manawatu River and water use and promoting more river-friendly practices.

For more information and to register for a workshop please visit http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2013/diy-detergent-workshop-te-manawa-river-exhibit/palmerston-north
Or you can RSVP by email to greenhub.manawatu@gmail.com


DIY Detergent Workshop - Te Manawa River Exhibit
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"The Economics of Happiness" film showing and discussion tonight! ENM because o...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:14:17 +0100

"The Economics of Happiness" film showing and discussion tonight!

ENM because of the nature of the organisation does not endorse any particular political party but we think the content of this movie would interest of lot of people connected to our Facebook page.

The Economics of Happiness is being shown as a fundraiser for the local Green Party. The film 'cuts deeply to heart of global crisis.' Exploring small scale sustainable local initiatives.

Where: at the Square Edge theatre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North. Doors open at 6.30 pm, film starts at 7 pm. Refreshments and lively discussion available on the night!

Tickets are available from Organic Living and are $15.00 each. Door sales will be available.
See www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org for more info.


the Economics of Happiness | Home
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'The Economics of Happiness' - a documentary about the worldwide movement for economic localization.

All sorts of activities happening at the Butterfly Park this Sunday March 3rd in...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:05:16 +0100

All sorts of activities happening at the Butterfly Park this Sunday March 3rd including planting, weeding, building a garden border, building seats, building a sign frame, tidying up and de-heading dead flowers! Something for everyone!
Let Paul know if you are coming to the event as they need know how many for a cup of tea (and snack)

Sunday March 3rd: Here's another opportunity to bird watch! Get a close up view...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:19:12 +0100

Sunday March 3rd: Here's another opportunity to bird watch! Get a close up view of the godwits at the Manawatu Estuary before they take off for their breeding grounds in the Northern Hemisphere.

Come along to the Seaweek Farewell to the Birds event at 1pm this Sunday where experts with scopes will help you identify and get a close up view of the godwits in their finest breeding plumage!

Better still arrive between 10.30am and 11am to join others for a beach clean up at the Estuary followed by a picnic (bring your own) before joining the Farewell to the Birds event.

In both cases meet at the parking area by the Skate Park in Holben Reserve, Foxton Beach. For more information phone Kelly Stratford (DOC on 350-9700) or Joan Leckie (Manawatu Estuary Trust on 06 3681277).

Do you enjoy seeing kereru? Make the most of the sunny weather and head out to...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:27:43 +0100

Do you enjoy seeing kereru? Make the most of the sunny weather and head out to gardens, parks and reserves to observe kereru (the native wood pigeon) so you can take part in the nationwide Kereru Count!

The week long count starts 9am this Sunday February 24th. Run by the Kiwi Conservation Club (Forest & Bird's junior division) for the first time last year, the kereru count is a fun citizens-science project for all New Zealanders to join.

They are interested in where kereru are spotted, how many, what they are doing and if possible what types of plants they are feeding on. All this to be recorded on the Kereru Count website. Find out more about it at http://www.kererucount.org.nz/


Kereru Counting
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A website with an interactive map to display kereru locations