Building a Resilient, Sustainable, and Thriving Community for the Future
Coming up 2 delicious events at the Community Garden at Dignan Street:
Sunday 25th July 10.30- 12.30
Working bee followed by shared wood fired pizza 12.30-2pm. We’ll supply GF bases, sauce and cheese, so just bring along a topping. Weather dependant.
Wednesday 28th July 12.30-2pm
Di’s famous Yacon Kimchi making workshop.
Bring along a large bowl, a sharp knife, a potato peeler, a colander and $15. Register with Di at bozndi at gmail.com.
Please see a summary of our May events below:
It’ll be great to see some of you at the garden, nau mai, haere mai.
Submissions are due on the draft Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) this Sunday (2nd May). I outlined what is needed back in February: A Climate-Ready RLTP – No Litigation Required.
The sooner we fix this city’s transport system so that it’s quiet, sustainable and safe so our kids get their freedom to walk, scooter and cycle, the sooner we start to reap the benefits of more socially connected communities and more healthy, active people. There are some good projects in the plan. As usual, it fails to deliver cycling infrastructure at anything like the rate required, and it fails to reduce emissions in line with our commitments.
The plan proposes investments that will increase emissions by 6% by 2031 (or decrease them by 12% if government makes policy changes around biofuels and EV uptake):
Auckland Council, on the other hand, laid out in the Auckland Climate Plan that a 64% reduction in transport emissions is required, and the 1Point5 Project believes Auckland’s transport must be largely decarbonized by 2030.
In this post, I want to explore Auckland Transport’s technical misunderstandings that have contributed to this failure.
We’ve had a lot going on in the garden planting in our Autumn guilds – please see our schedule for this month below:
The closing date/time for submissions on the Climate Action is this Friday March 28, presumably midnight. The Government Climate Change Commission (CCC) submission form is very simple (much easier than the Auckland Council one), people can either fill in some/all of the spaces under any one or all of the six headings as following:
Here is a template from the Greens – if you would like some ideas. Or you could write a simple general submission and send it directly to Dr Rod Carr, Chair of the CCC.
Because the government submission form has a special designation of “Young Person” a member of our group has sent in her 7 year old granddaughter’s thoughts (all her own she assures us ;>) on what we need to do to help the climate:
Even if all you do is to ask your children/grandchildren their thoughts, and just put only those into the form, you will be taking some action on behalf of the planet in this way. Please do something – it takes such a tiny amount of time.
In March we have following sessions to offer. However, please note that all events will be canceled in levels 3 and 4. Also please scan in on the Covid tracking app when you arrive at the garden.
Welcome to our first garden calendar in 2021 🌻📜
In February we have following sessions to offer:
Reccurring events:
Please join us on…
Wednesday December 9th at 18:30-19:30
…for a free Kai Tahi / shared meal at 18 Huia Rd, Point Chevalier Community Centre 🎄
followed by our Monthly Meeting from 19:30 to 21:00.
Despite the weather threatening raining us out, we had a lovely working bee and shared kai pizza on Sunday. We braved the weather and the oven put through 27 pizzas, thanks to Countdown Pt Chev for the bases, cheese and sauce – please see photos below the calendar.
This week we have 3 sessions:
This week we have 3 sessions:
Coming up:
Wednesday 25th 12.30- 1.30pm Growing Point Workshop:
Measuring Brix Levels as an indicator of plant health.