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01 MON 02 TUES 03 WED 04 THU 05 FRI 06 SAT 07 SUN 3.30pm - 5.30pm 12pm - 5.40pm 7.30pm - 8.30pm 4.45pm - 7.30pm All Day 9am - 12pm 10am - 3pm Movie Mondays: Plastic Paradise (Refill Challenge) Day 2 of World Ocean Summit Virtual Week Forest & Bird Rotorua Presentation: Native Beetle Family DIY Bees Wax Wrap Workshop Day 5 of World Ocean Summit Virtual Week Rotorua Trails Trust Working Bee Ngāti Whakaue Whānau Day Rotorua Library - Community Pride Space, ground floor Online Netherlands Society Hall, Neil Hunt Park Rotorua Library - Community Meeting Room, ground floor Online. Forest. Meet at Rotorua Trails Trust office, Scion, Tītokorangi Drive, Rotorua Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth. And Tune into a range of sessions discussing Aquaculture and shipping, Presentation about Scion’s entomology group’s search for a native Learn how to make your own beeswax wraps and take two of Unless action is taken quickly, the quantity of plastic in the ocean is Long Mile Road, next to Redwoods iSite A festival of kai, stalls, live music and whenua tours to reconnect yet it has become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage with keynote plenary speeches and panels discussing innovation in beetle family in Kahurangi National Park, based on old and scarce your own home. For ages 12 and above. Bookings are essential forecast to triple within the next decade. All the initiatives now in Join us for a fun morning of helping the forest continue to be to and whenua and showcase Whakaue excellence. Don’t Patch. Filmmaker Angela Sun travels on a journey of discovery these areas. The 2021 agenda will deliver fresh, robust, and action- knowledge, and the discovery of a new species. via Envirohub website - limited spaces. place will reduce the share of plastic that ends up in the ocean by less awesome. Everyone is welcome, whether you are a walker, runner, miss out on a whenua tour – a two hour round trip to key points to uncover this mysterious phenomenon. She meets scientists, oriented insights into creating a sustainable ocean economy. The horse rider, mountain biker or keen gardener. We will focus on Contact: [email protected] 3 session times available: 4.45pm start, 5.30pm start or 6:15pm than 10%. As plastic production increases and leakage reduction is in the forest with wānanga around the history and significance researchers, influencers, and volunteers who shed light on the virtual week offers the opportunity to access highly curated content vegetation control, cutting back the trail and clearing drains to make small, we face a disaster for ocean health in less than 20 years. Day 5 to Whakaue that will be running throughout the day. Sign up effects of our rabid plastic consumption. Come along and learn and the chance to make meaningful connections no matter where start, with a run time of 45 minutes. trails ready for winter. Please wear covered shoes, a hat, sunscreen of the Online World Ocean summit Virtual week will look at what the links will be released late Feb. more about the Summer RefillNZ Challenge and be into win! you are in the world. Contact: https://events.economist.com/world- Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Cost: $5 world needs to do to meet this challenge.Contact: https://events. and drinking water. Bring a friend and have a laugh. Contact: https://www.whakaue.com/events Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz ocean-summit/?RefID=TAGFB economist.com/world-ocean-summit/?RefID=TAGFB Contact: www.facebook.com/RotoruaTrailsTrust

08 MON 09 TUES 10 WED 11 THU 12 FRI 13 SAT 14 SUN 3.30pm -5.30pm 5:30pm - 6:30pm 6pm 5pm - 6pm 12th March - Wed 31st March, 2pm 9am 10.30am - 12.30pm Movie Mondays: 2040 DIY Seed Bomb Workshop Upcycle old jeans into a reusable bag DIY Seed Bomb Workshop Sustainable Backyards Photo competition Forest & Bird Field Trip to Te Whetu Landcare Okareka: Visit the Mahi in the Wetland Rotorua Library - Community Pride Space, ground floor Waterfront, War Memorial Park, Rotorua Cottage Flair, 1129 Eruera Street Rotorua Library Te Aka Mauri - Community Meeting Facebook.com/sustainablebackyards | IG: @envirohubbop Te Whetu Boyes beach car park, Millar Road, Lake Okareka 2040 is an innovative feature documentary that looks to the Learn how to make and use a seed bomb to guerilla plant your A great way to combat fashion waste is to upcycle your old Room, ground floor Be in to win with Sustainable Backyards photo competition. Field Trip to Te Whetu to see archaeological sites discovered Come along to the Boyes Beach / Millar Road wetland area to learn future but is vitally important NOW. Damon Gameau embarks neighbourhood with wildflowers and natives. All seeds are clothing to make it last longer. Cottage Flair are offering a class Learn how to make and use a seed bomb and take two home Upload a photo of the #sustainablepractice you are most proud during forestry operations. Leader Robin White. A sequel to his about the results of 1 year of pest weed and animal control by on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the selected to encourage native birds and pollinators to the area. on how to take old jeans and make them into a new tote bag! of your own. For ages 12 and above. Bookings are essential via of and tag us in the post with the hashtag #sustainablepractice talk in October 2020 about rock shelters, urupa, pa sites, kainga Landcare Okareka volunteers. This is the start of a 10 year project year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already Loads of fun to do with the kids and you will get to take plenty of Requires a sewing machine, pins and scissors. Envirohub website - limited spaces. Times available are 4:00pm or send to us via DM’s. It might be the veggie garden you grew and gardens. to try to restore the mana to this special local wetland. Thanks to during lockdown, the beeswax wraps you made or how you bike available to us to improve our planet. Damon blends traditional your own seed bombs home. Register at www.envirohub.org.nz start or 5:15pm start, with a run time of 45 minutes. Contact: [email protected] Tuhourangi Tribal Authority, Te Lakes Trust, BOPRC, DOC, Tipu documentary footage with dramatized sequences and high-end ride to work. Competition opens on the 12th of March and closes Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Cost: $10 (includes needle, thread, and jeans, but you may also Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Cost: $5 ph Margaret 07 357 2024 Wai Trust, SCION, RLC and Landcare Okareka volunteers and the visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and the on the 31st of March 2pm. bring your own) community. Contact: [email protected] planet. Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Contact: @envirohubbop | Facebook.com/sustainablebackyards

15 MON 16 TUES 17 WED 18 THU 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 3.30pm - 5.30pm 7pm - 9pm 7pm - 9.20pm 5:30pm - 8pm 8pm 9am 6pm or 7:30pm Movie Mondays: RiverBlue The Rubbish Trip: ‘Living Without a Rubbish Bin: the Big Bike Film Night Envirohub & Dress for Success BOP; Biz Wear Frock Swap Rotorua Walking Festival DOC, Forest and Bird and Waikato Botanical Society: Wilding Autumn Equinox Seed S wap and Potluck Pine Removal, Mt. Tarawera. Rotorua Library - Community Pride Space, ground floor world of zero waste The Harvest Centre Auditorium. 324 Malfroy Road, Rotorua Council Chambers, 1061 Haupapa Street, Rotorua Neil Hunt Park, Tarawera Road 21 Kingsley Drive, Ngongotahā Meet at DOC Ashpit Road campground, The Netherlands Society Hall, Neil Hunt Park Prepare to be inspired! The Big Bike Film Night is on a mission 3.8 tonnes of clothing is thrown out every year in the . The RiverBlue discovers the toxic side effects of textile production A two-day walking event with walks in the Whakarewarewa Drive to the top of Mt Tarawera, cross the crater, and remove wilding Lux Organics and The Soil & Health Association of and jean manufacturing on some of the world’s largest rivers. Join Hannah and Liam of The Rubbish Trip for an introduction into sharing the best cycling short films from around the world with you. simplest and most sustainable way to give garments greater longevity is Forest on day 1 (Saturday) and walks through the city, parks, would like to invite you to an informal potluck at Lux Organics to provide them with a second life. Envirohub and Dress for Success are conifer seedlings to assist the reestablishment of native vegetation. Grade: Traveling from tanneries along rivers in India, to some of the the hows and the whys of reducing household rubbish, and the Showcasing our 2021 collection that has everything a cycling-centric thermal reserves, lakeshore, and points of historical interest of Medium-Hard. Participants 14yrs + and confident walking on steep to celebrate the autumn equinox and swap seeds. This offers an hosting this frock swap to save your clothes from landfill and support the largest jean manufacturing factories in China, renowned river different ways we can all help create a zero waste world. Hannah audience could want- action, drama, humour, and plenty of inspiration; Rotorua city on day 2 (Sunday). Starting off with a Nocturnal mobile scoria slopes and along high sharp ridges. Bring: Minimum 3 litres opportunity to meet local gardeners, glean organic gardening the evening is going to be unashamedly, and utterly, utterly, Dress for Success mission! Pre-register at www.envirohub.org.nz and drop advocate, Mark Angelo, guides us through the declining health of and Liam have been living without a rubbish bin since 2015 and walk on Friday night at 8pm, with other festivities at Neil Hunt water, lunch and snacks, wet weather and warm gear, sun hat, sunblock, tips and, of course, diversify your seed supply. The potluck will utterly aimed at the two-wheel devotee! Contact: https://www. off clothing at Dress for Success Bay of Plenty at 1195 Eruera Street. Drinks boots/sturdy shoes, gaiters and/or leggings an advantage for loose scoria, these important waterways. have delivered over 400 talks nationwide about zero waste living. bigbikefilmnight.nz/screenings/Cost: Adults $22.50, Under 17 year olds and nibbles provided. Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Cost: Free - Bring 5 Park throughout the weekend. and gloves for pulling out pines. Maximum 25 people, registrations begin at 6pm, with the seed swapping and discussion beginning Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Cost: Free, Koha optional $17.50, and Under 12 year olds $12.50 items of clothing to swap Contact: www.rotoruawalkingfestival.org.nz essential Contact: [email protected] | 027 650 7264 at 7:30pm. Register via email: [email protected]

22 MON 23 TUES 24 WED 25 THU 26 FRI 27 SAT 28 SUN 3.30pm -5.30pm 5.30pm - 6.30pm 4.45pm - 7.30pm 6pm - 7pm 7pm - 9:30pm 10am - 1:30pm 10am - 12pm Movie Mondays: Children’s Movie Event - The Lorax Bike Workshop DIY Bees Wax Wrap Workshop Crop Swap Climate Change Speakers Forum: Doing the Mahi | Kaore te kumara he korero mo tona ake reka Tiaki Early Learning Centre Open Day Rotorua Library - Community Pride Space, ground floor Evo Cycles Rotorua, 1081 Amohau Street Rotorua Library - Community Meeting Room, ground floor Rotorua Night Markets, Tutanekai Street, Rotorua Facebook Live Event Te Puea Orchards, 69 Te Puea Rd, 25 B Umukaria Road. Hinemoa Point Rotorua Based on the Dr Seuss classic book of the same name, Ted Evo Cycles Rotorua is hosting a basic maintenance workshop Learn how to make your own beeswax wraps and take two of It is officially Autumn and if you have an abundance of summer Online via Facebook | Holy Trinity Church, Tauranga ‘Kaore te kumara he korero mo tona ake reka’. ‘The kumara never Tiaki is a small privately owned early learning centre, nestled searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the for cyclists to attend. Evo can teach you the basic maintenance your own home. For ages 12 and above. Bookings are essential produce you would like to swap with your community join us for After a series of speakers forums dedicated to educating about the speaks of its sweetness’. Kai Rotorua (see our website) specializes on the shores of . The outside environment is affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the of your bike and things you should look out for on your bike to via Envirohub website - limited spaces. 3 session times available: our crop swap. Bring along the season’s surplus produce to trade many intricacies of climate change this forum will be dedicated in the growing, harvesting and storing of kumara. We have been intentionally designed to encourage children to connect to story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights ensure your safety. Come along and meet the crew, check out 4.45pm start, 5.30pm start or 6.15pm start, with a run time of with another keen grower. Rules are available on our website so to what we can do at an individual, community, business and growing kumara at Te Puea Orchards now for 4 years. We are nature. The kai we provide is completely vegan and we strive to to protect his world. more details on our Facebook page: Evo Cycles Rotorua. Limited 45 minutes. please check them out before attending. This is a free event- your government level. Speakers Include Chris Battershill of UoW and successful kumara growers. Come have a kai (lunch) and share. Also keep the kitchen zero waste. This will be a chance to have a look Marty Hoffart of Zero Waste Network. Other national speakers to be Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz to 20 attendees. Contact: facebook.com/EvoRotorua Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Cost: $5 produce is your currency. Vegetables, Fruit and Preserves only- no join Jessica and Kaitlyn from Forest and Bird Youth Rotorua, to learn around the centre to see the gardens, environment and how we confirmed. If you are unable to join us in person at we will bring the about soil health and composting. Key contact: www.kairotorua.nz meat or dairy. Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz event to you via Facebook Live. Contact: Facebook.com/envirohub strive for zero waste. Key Contact: tiakielc.com

29 MON 30 TUES 31 WED 3.30pm - 5.30pm 11am - 12pm 10am - 3pm Movie Mondays: Chasing Coral Sustainable Backyards Colouring in Competition Closes Predator Free Eastside Rotorua Library - Community Pride Space, ground floor Rotorua Library and online The Green Shed at Hannahs Bay Reserve (Waikawau) Thanks to the following Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented Envirohub and the Rotorua Library are running a colouring in Come down and learn about how Trapping in your own Backyard organisations for supporting rate. This beautiful, award winning film follows a team of divers, competition from the 1st to the 30th of March. Print off your and Volunteer Trapping locally at Hannahs Bay (Waikawau) and entry form our website or pick up a copy at the Rotorua Library photographers, and scientists on a thrilling ocean adventure to can help out native birds and wildlilfe. these events: throughout the month. Do you have under 5’s? Join us at The We will have Korero from local volunteers who help out with discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world. Rotorua Library at 11am to complete your entry at He Pī Ka Rere.On bio security mahi, demonstrations, trap box building, intro to Contact: www.envirohub.org.nz Tuesday the 23rd and Thursday the 25th. Contact: www.envirohub. our G.I.S Data Systems and the chance to sign up as a Backyard org.nz | Submissions close 5pm Tuesday March 30th. Email your Trapper or a Volunteer at Hannahs Bay or Mokoia Island. submission to [email protected] Contact: [email protected] For more info go to www.envirohub.org.nz The Bay of BEESWAX Plenty’s WRAP Environment WORKSHOP Centre We’re Connecting People to Enhance and Protect Our Environment

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Tuesday 16th of March | 7pm- 9pm www.waiarikiparkregion.org.nz V I S I T T H E S I T E : Join Hannah and Liam of The Rubbish Trip for an introduction into the hows and the whys W W W . E N V I R O H U B . O R G . N Z of reducing household rubbish, and the different ways we can all help create a zero waste world. Hannah and Liam have been living without a rubbish bin since 2015 and have An initiative driven by: delivered over 400 talks nationwide about zero waste living. refillchallenge.org.nz For more info visit www.envirohub.org.nz