Resources

One of the great things about sustainability is that there is something for everyone. Whether you're into community led gardening events, litter picks, growing your own food, active travel, or number crunching your household carbon stats, sustainability has touch points with every part of our personal and professional lives.
Food Sovereignty
Climate Action
Circular Economy
Biodiversity
Community group resources
Environmental Research
Food Sovereignty

How to run a community garden

Food Sovereignty

Accessing Food Support

Food Sovereignty

Community gardens in the Manawatū

Food Sovereignty

Growing Your Own Food

Food Sovereignty

Inspired to start your own local Crop Swap?

Get in touch with Crop Swap NZ or contact us for guidance.
Food Sovereignty

Edible Garden

A fruit tree specialist nursery based in Ashhurst.
Food Sovereignty

Edible Backyard

Offers consultations and workshops plus lots of great educational information via her blog and monthly seasonal gardening newsletters.
Food Sovereignty

Awapuni nurseries

Sell a huge variety of edibles and ornamentals wrapped in newspaper and offer excellent gardening advice on their website.
Food Sovereignty

Kahuterawa Homegrown

Do regular Facebook posts about what’s happening in the garden with useful tips and tricks.
Food Sovereignty

Paranui Organics

For locally made soil mixes, mulches and everything you need for the soil/getting started.
Food Sovereignty

Spoilt Soil

A new local permaculture based venture there to help you create and maintain a garden that feeds you and works with the unique ecosystem and set of circumstances that you live in
Food Sovereignty

Para Kore

A zero waste education programme designed specifically for marae, community organisations and schools. Para Kore regularly post videos on their Facebook page with zero waste ideas in the kitchen.
Food Sovereignty

Tips for making effective Pātaka Kai (Sharing Shelves)

Food Sovereignty

Seed Libraries

Share seeds, access free seeds 
Food Sovereignty

Manawatū Food
Rescue Guide


Food Sovereignty

Food Rescue Best Before Guidelines


Circular Economy

Where to recycle things with PNCC

Circular Economy

How to reduce your household waste

Circular Economy

Zero waste Living list for the Manawatū

Circular Economy

Zero Waste Manawatū Facebook Group

A group for people in the Manawatū who are on the journey towards Zero Waste or living without single-use plastics and other products destined for landfill.
Circular Economy

Para Kore

A zero waste education programme designed specifically for marae, community organisations and schools. Para Kore regularly post videos on their Facebook page with zero waste ideas in the kitchen, bathroom, workplace and in schools.
Circular Economy

Zero Waste Network Aotearoa

Represents community enterprises across Aotearoa New Zealand who are working towards zero waste. Their mission is to connect, educate, enable and inspire people to reach their goals and to be a unifying voice at local, regional and central government levels.
Circular Economy

The Rubbish Trip

Zero Waste heroes The Rubbish Trip have compiled an excellent Zero Waste shopping guide for the Manawatū/Horowhenua/Rangitikei regions. They also have guides for all other regions of New Zealand.
Circular Economy

Spinning Greenwash!

A report about polyester and microplastic pollution.
Circular Economy

Which brands of clothing are the most ethical? ​​​​

Circular Economy

A circular economy is much more than recycling

Circular Economy

WasteMINZ

WasteMINZ have their own resource library as well as details of specific projects.
Circular Economy

How to sharpen your tools and knives

Circular Economy

Put a cap on plastic:

Trisia Farrelly
Circular Economy

Living circular in the Manawatū

Community group resources

Funding (EIF)

The Environmental Initiative Fund grants individuals and organisations funding for their projects. If you're looking for funding in Manawatū, Horowhenua, Tararua, or Palmerston North for sustainability-focused initiatives, this fund may be for you.
Community group resources

City Council Strategic Priority Grants

Palmerston North City Council's Strategic Priority Grants programme is designed to help the community sector deliver on Council’s vision. Applications take place every three years, the next round being September 2028.
Community group resources

Funding opportunities in Palmerston North

As a result of the PNCC funding day, there is a booklet with all the funder who attended. This can be a great way to easily find funders.
Community group resources

Governance

Resources to enable positive, constructive governance
Community group resources

Raising More Funds

A list of tips on raising more funds, kindly written by Kerrie Tilby-Price from Exult (Helping non-profits grow).
Community group resources

Making Submissions

This page contains links, tips and information for anyone wanting to make a submission to local, regional or national government bodies.
Community group resources

Collaboration

One of ENM’s fundamental values is working together – great things happen when people are connected. Groups meet and collaborate, and two subnetworks have formed under the ENM umbrella – the Biodiversity Cluster and the Food Action Network. Collaboration with other organizations can boost your project’s chances of success. This page has resources on collaboration, written by our volunteers and member groups.
Community group resources

Volunteer Health and Safety

The Health and Safety at Work Act came into effect in 2016. This legislation does not have a big impact on all-voluntary organisations, but the human bottom line remains the same: good planning can improve the health and safety of our volunteers. On this page you can find materials developed by ENM and some of its member groups, along with other external organisations. Governance boards and volunteer managers might find these materials helpful in improving their practices.
Community group resources

Te Tiriti O Waitangi

Links to information on the history and process of Waitangi Treaty settlement.
Community group resources

Library

ENM's book and tool library
Sustainability academic research
Everything we have shared is already available in the public domain.

Increasingly research funders are stipulating that academic research must be freely available online so that it can be read, downloaded and reused by anyone. This is really important as it supports the wider dissemination of knowledge, and increases research visibility and impact. After all, this is the whole point of doing research!

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

DOAJ is committed to keeping its services free of charge, including being indexed, and its data freely available. You can access the website here.
Environmental Research

How does learning about the future of the ocean impact children's emotional wellbeing?

This article discusses the importance of making space for children to express difficult emotions about their future in relation to climate change, and, that children don't need to experience pristine natural environments to feel the mental and emotional wellbeing benefits; just being in and connecting with nature helps. The study also highlights the importance of intergenerational, collective problem solving and action to reduce perceived ‘us and them’ tensions between generations, and enable supportive relationships between young people, and adults who wish to work in solidarity with them.
Environmental Research

Introducing ‘Ngaruroro’, a New Model for Understanding Māori Wellbeing.

This article discusses how Indigenous peoples around the world are revitalising their ancestral beliefs, practices, and languages, including traditional understandings of health and wellbeing as an alternative approach to those established by Western European colonial practices. The paper introduces a new model of Māori wellbeing, Ngaruroro, which adds to the growing number and variety of wellbeing models for Māori. The eight themes and forty-one items offer fresh, unique, and detailed insights as to what is important to the wellbeing of Māori people today and identify a variety of potential sources of wellbeing.
Environmental Research

Representations of Youth Climate Anxiety: A Framing Analysis ofEmotional Responses to the Climate Crisis in International News Media.

This article addresses the rise in children feeling distressed, anxious, or angry about the impacts of climate change with increasing frequency since 2019. Climate change has recently been identified as one underlying mega-trend affecting the deteriorating mental health of young people over the past two decades, as has socioeconomic injustice, especially between high and low-and middle-income countries. It is important that we build empathy with children and young people as our descendants so that intergenerational positive collective action and experiences can take place.
Environmental Research

Textile recycling - positive change or toxic truth?

The fashion and textile industry is highly polluting and has been criticized for a lack of end-of-life solutions that divert unwanted garments from ending up in landfills or, worse, in natural habitats. This study examines the impact of textile recycling processes which use various chemicals, some of which can pose a significant environmental and health risk.
Environmental Research

Community is climate resilience: lessons from Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland anniversary floods

Produced by Environment Hubs Aotearoa, this report demonstrates that communities have the commitment and capability to deliver highly effective disaster responses, but that they urgently need to be empowered, trusted and resourced to do so. Building a future fit for a changing climate requires moving beyond consultation toward true partnership, and recognising that community is not just part of resilience - it is resilience.
Environmental Research

Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%

Produced by Oxfam international, this report explains how the twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality are felt most by women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South. While the consequences of climate breakdown are felt in all parts of the world, only the richest people and countries as the largest contributors to climate change have the wealth, power and influence to protect themselves.

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