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Plastic Pollution Solutions: Your Choice, Your Voice. An Art Exhibition.
The exhibition will be taking place at Square Edge Community Arts Centre, 47 the Square and running from 1-23 September 2023
This will mark five years of the work of ENMs Plastic Pollution Challenge in cleaning up local waterways and working with community to help ensure the health of our awa and streams. The exhibition will question where we are now on our journey through interactive art and opportunities to have local voices heard. You can find out more here.
Future Living Skills.
Our third and final Future Living Skills programme for 2023 will start on Tuesday 12th September from 5:30pm 7:30pm and registrations are open now.
The programme of friendly and interactive workshops runs over 8 weeks with the aim of helping you become more sustainable in your daily life.
This course will differ from others in that there will be 6 evening sessions in Palmerston North and two practical Saturday afternoon sessions (Gardening and Composting) in Feilding,.
We encourage participants to come to most of the workshops but do recognise that people have busy lives and may choose to come to just those that they are most interested in. Find out more here
Palmerston North Repair Cafe. Repair. Reduce Waste.
A monthly event where local people bring in their broken and damaged belongings and local volunteer experts do their best to repair them.
Next event takes place on Saturday 30th September 9am-12pm (last mend at 11:30pm) at Palmerston North Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson Street.
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Diverse, creative initiatives the flavour of local funding awarded by ENM’s Environmental Initiatives Fund.
The Environmental Initiatives Fund (EIF) distributed by Environment Network Manawatū (ENM) has awarded grants totalling almost $49,000 to ten local projects in its 2023 large grants funding round.
The fund is made possible by a Palmerston North City Council Strategic Priority Grant and focuses on projects that improve environmental outcomes for the city and its people.
Now in its third year of distribution the fund received its highest number of applications (17) totalling $133,500 worth of funds. Applications this year were highly diverse in their scope and focus, a testament to the passion of community groups, schools and people in enhancing preserving our native flora and fauna, upcycling and recycling, and ensuring food resilience is increased in our rohe....
Give the gift of helping return Kiwi to the Ruahine Range.
As a donation, for a loved one for a special occasion or just to say you care. Gift to support the Ruahine Kiwi Project in our vital mahi to enable the reintroduction of Kiwi by 2026.
Your gift will help resource the ongoing work to significantly decrease predator numbers in the Ruahine Range so endemic bird and plant life can thrive. This in turn will create the right climate for Kiwi to be safely and successfully introduced by 2026 into an area where they have been scarcely seen for many decades.
Who are we?
Environment Network Manawatū is the environment hub for the Manawatū Region, facilitating and enabling communication, cooperation, and collective action amongst its 65+ member groups and the community. These groups stem from throughout the Manawatū River Catchment with interests including biodiversity regeneration, freshwater management, food resilience, sustainable living, alternative energies, and active transport. The network is organised into two collectives: Manawatū Food Action Network and Manawatū River Source to Sea.
Learn more about us:
- See our diverse range of member groups
- Check out our monthly newsletter
- Read our 2022 Performance Report
- Click here to know about Plastic Challenge
- Keep up to date with our Food Action Network
- Find out more about Manawatū River Source to Sea
Celebrating volunteering
Eve Hill. Palmerston North Girls’ High School.
Eve Hill radiates enthusiasm and pride when she speaks of her work as co-leader of the Palmerston North Girls’ High School’s (PNGHS) Enviro-Group, which she has been involved in since she was a year 9 student. Now in year 12 she is deeply committed to moving the school towards solar energy, ‘Two years of meetings but we will get there’ she notes, and of getting year 9 students actively involved in sustainability linked activities.
2023 has been an auspicious year for PNGHS, an Enviroschool that recently achieved the much-lauded Green- Gold status...
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