EcoFest 2023 Events

This immersive experience features a range of waste-reducing innovation and sustainable tech from around Aotearoa including inspiring initiatives designed to combat clothing, construction and food waste. Get ready to take on the challenge with MOTAT and switch up your thinking to improve our environment. Visit Switch up today and leave inspired by New Zealand's ground breaking innovations.

Our Backyard Battle citizen science programme gets students, teachers, volunteers and other citizen scientists out collecting litter at key inland sites to help create a better understanding of litter’s pathway across our land. Plan and register your Backyard Battle and do your bit for kaitiatikanga o Aotearoa.

Our Upstream Battle citizen science programme gets students, teachers, volunteers and other citizen scientists out collecting litter at key upstream sites to help create a better understanding of the root causes of ocean pollution. Plan and register your Upstream Battle and do your bit for kaitiatikanga o Aotearoa.

Look to the past to find ways of living for the future! Experience daily life in the 1850s at Howick Historical Village, where sustainability underpinned everything. Everything was homemade and grown, nothing was wasted. Explore the heritage buildings and gardens, catch a butter making demo, play old-fashioned games. Make a day of it!

Help to create Aotearoa’s next generation of carbon literate ambassadors. Our Climate Ready Classrooms programme introduces learners to the key concepts surrounding climate change and empowers them to take climate action. The four teacher-led workshops explore the issues of climate change in an engaging and motivating way.

Young Reporters for the Environment is aimed at students 11-25 years old. It aims to empower young people to take a stand on environmental issues that they feel strongly about and to give them a platform to articulate these issues through the media of writing, photography or video. So give your students a voice, and register your school to participate.

Aucklanders have some tough choices ahead. Tell Auckland Council how you think the Annual Budget 2023/2024 should be balanced. Find out more and have your say at akhaveyoursay.nz/budget. Consultation ends 11pm on Tuesday 28 March.

This is a free to view exhibition event that challengers common perceptions of waste. Showcasing potential of used and reclaimed materials that are typically discarded because they are regarded as useless. MORSEL is a sampling of a better tomorrow .

Come down and join us for a volunteer shift at Fair Food, where we are passionate about feeding people, not landfills. We’re powered by hundreds of volunteers who lovingly hand-sort fresh food and prepare it for our partner charities to distribute to people in need.

Pop into the library and our staff will show you how to make your own ecofriendly plant pots in just seconds. You can put these pots directly into your garden plots! Garden mix and seeds provided.

Please note that this event has been postponed until 23 September 2023.

Join us at Kelmarna Gardens for this comprehensive workshop for beginner and experienced home gardeners alike, hosted by celebrated regenerative gardener Yotam Kay (Pākaraka Permaculture), to cover essential topics for cultivating a productive home garden capable of feeding you and your whānau throughout the year.

Seeds are the little suitcases that store the evolution of plant species and the culture of their growers - Josie Jeffery. Share and exchange seeds and growing tips with your neighbours through the Avondale Library Seed Swap. The Seed Swap will operate throughout the month during the library's opening hours.