We provide seminars, workshops, discussion groups, large events (such as the Energyblitz in 2008 and the Bioblitz in April 2009) and other educational opportunities on topics related to reducing our ecological footprint. We have also run Sustainable Living Courses. We provide hands-on education about producing our own healthy food at our Community garden and to certain extent information about producing organic food at our Organic farm in conjunction with the Biological Husbandry Unit situated at Lincoln University.

We have run two Energy Homes bus tours to people’s homes where they have been putting energy saving or energy generation ideas into practice. We have also run a native garden tour of people’s gardens as well as composting a workshop and tour of examples. Many of these could run again if there were enough people interested. Informati0on about these events will be in the back issues of our newsletters.

We have run Zerowaste Street Challenges, which include an education component and also run a Responsible Business Award Scheme for businesses throughout Selwyn.

We have a number of sub-groups or individuals who concentrate on various parts of our sustainable action plan and other related areas. If you are interested in joining any of these or forming a new one, let us know.

We run an Envirokids club which generally meets once a month and also holiday activities for children which are advertised in the Selwyn District Council “Council Call” pages in the local papers. These are designed to be fun while having an underlying theme of environmental sustainability. We encourage children to make links with their local environment and to take action.


We aim to follow the:

NZ Curriculum Framework for effective Environmental education