EcoFest 2023 Events
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Switch Up: Sustainable Solutions
Ongoing
MOTAT - 805 Great North Road, Western Springs
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.
Hosted by:
MOTAT

Backyard Battle
Ongoing
Online
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.
Hosted by:
Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Upstream Battle
Ongoing
Online
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.
Hosted by:
Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Sustainable Living in the Past - Howick Historical Village
Ongoing
Howick Historical Village, Bells Road, Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga
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!
Hosted by:
Howick Historical Village

Climate Ready Classrooms
Ongoing
Online
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.
Hosted by:
Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Young Reporters for the Environment
Ongoing
Online
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.
Hosted by:
Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Auckland Council Annual Budget 2023/24 Consultation
9:00 am
Friday, 17 March 2023
Online: akhaveyoursay.nz/budget
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.
Hosted by:
Auckland Council

Morsel - An Exhibition by RE:USE Collective
11:00 am
Saturday, 18 March 2023
Victoria Park Market Co-Working Space Unit 42, 210-218 Victoria Street, CBD
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 .
Hosted by:
Easel Gallery & RE:USE Collective

Fair Food Volunteering
12:15 pm
Saturday, 18 March 2023
2/624 Rosebank Road, Avondale
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.
Hosted by:
Fair Food

Ecopots in Seconds
10:00 am
Saturday, 18 March 2023
Avondale Library, 93 Rosebank Road, Avondale
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.
Hosted by:
Avondale Library

Home Gardening with Pākaraka Permaculture - POSTPONED
9:30 am
Saturday, 18 March 2023
Kelmarna Gardens Community Farm, entrance at 12 Hukanui Crescent, Ponsonby
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.
Hosted by:
Kelmarna Gardens Community Farm

Library Seed Swap
9:00 am
Saturday, 18 March 2023
Avondale Library, 93 Rosedale Road, Avondale
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.
Hosted by:
Avondale Library