Conservation / July 2022
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Why intercity needs to be part of public transport
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Heidi O’Callahan and Paul Callister, 31 July 2022 Long distance coaches, linking communities and reducing emissions Long distance coaches form an existing, widespread transport network that many New Zealanders do not give much thought to. Yet they are an important service for people living in and near towns and smaller cities, connecting them with […]
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July/August 2022 newsletter
- Friends of Maara Roa
- Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 22 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees are every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark at the back of Porirua College. The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: ... Read more
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Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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August recycling – This month, coffee capsules
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Saturday 3 August is when the recycling day next comes around again. This month we will be accepting selected coffee capsules (see below) which we will send off to the manufacturers recycling programme. Please ensure they are seperated into the … Continue reading →
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Water Sampling
- Friends of Maara Roa
- What lives in Cannons Creek? There are three kinds of fish, longfin eels, and freshwater crayfish, along with a wide variety of plants, insects and bacteria in Cannons Creek. But there are no signs of possums, rats, cats or rabbits, giving us hope that years of pest control has reduced the numbers of these predators. ... Read more
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Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bird numbers soar to new heights on Miramar Peninsula
- Predator Free Wellington
- The latest Miramar Peninsula bird count results reveal a 51% increase in native birds on the Miramar Peninsula. The increase in native birds has been driven by a 550% increase in pīwakawaka (NZ fantails), a 275% increase in riroriro (grey warblers) and a 49% increase in tūī. James Willcocks, Project Director…
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bird numbers soar to new heights on Miramar Peninsula
- Predator Free Wellington
- The latest Miramar Peninsula bird count results reveal a 51% increase in native birds on the Miramar Peninsula. The increase in native birds has been driven by a 550% increase in pīwakawaka (NZ fantails), a 275% increase in riroriro (grey warblers) and a 49% increase in tūī. James Willcocks, Project Director…
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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My vehicle is ‘bigger than yours’: The David and Goliath struggle on our roads and footpaths
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Judith Galtry, 24 July 2022 “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” —E.F. Schumacher I don’t drive very often. Yet I’m experiencing disturbing levels of road rage, both on and off […]
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Our 1kg bags get turned into fence posts
- Flight Coffee
- Flight Coffee is excited to announce to the world our own recycling system.
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Our 1kg bags get turned into fence posts
- Flight Coffee
- Flight Coffee is excited to announce to the world our own recycling system.
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Wishing for fairy dust – why the NZ Biofuels Obligation is the worst kind of magical thinking
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Jake Roos, BSc (Hons), MAppSc Energy Management11 July 2022 Wouldn’t it be great if wishes came true, and all your problems just went away? If all you needed to do is ask for something and it materialised out of thin air before you? Of course it would, but the world doesn’t work like that. […]
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Colour the natural world – enter our colouring competition for all ages
- Zealandia
- Crack out the colouring pencils, pastels, markers or paint. We have a wildlife-inspired colouring in competition for all ages – including adults. The competition has some amazing prizes and several ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Wellington firm making plastic fantastic
- Capital Magazine
- Plastic gets a bad wrap, but one Wellington business is doing it right. The post The Wellington firm making plastic fantastic appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Flight Plastics, 75, Wainui Road, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5010, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Poplar Avenue crossing campaign: Some history and future directions
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Paul Callister, 8 July 2022 A previous blog has highlighted the success of the Poplar Avenue crossing campaign supported by Low Carbon Kāpiti. Here is some deeper history of the campaign plus some ideas as to how we can conitune to improve our cycling network. So why the campaign? We know we have to […]
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Glass collections to resume
- Island Bay Residents' Association
- From WCC: After a two-week break due to the impacts of COVID-19, glass collections will resume on Monday 11 July. Collections are fortnightly, so please check the recycling calendar for your next collection date. There may be a backlog of glass as people have been stockpiling. Please put it out in stages, only in glass crates, soContinue reading "Glass collections to resume"
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Glass recycling collection on hold
- Island Bay Residents' Association
- Kia ora, Unfortunately, our waste collection contractors are once again operating at reduced capacity due to COVID-19.
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Degrowth – the word to hate and then accept
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Deirdre Kent Yes, it’s an awful word but we won’t try and change it because there are already over 500 academic articles on degrowth. The movement is strong in Europe. This diagram shows the occurrence of key words in books since 2010. We have recently started a group called Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ). […]
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