Simon’s Blog
We are working on migrating Simon’s old blog to here – in the meantime please feel free to check out Simon’s old blog here
We are working on migrating Simon’s old blog to here – in the meantime please feel free to check out Simon’s old blog here
I’ve said it for years and I’m sure I’ll still be saying it for years to come – Waste is easy! It’s also one of the easiest places to start or check in with your journey towards sustainability. Waste is something we all have experience of, it’s in our daily lives – even if we don’t want it, it is thrust upon us without a care in the world as to the damage it may do. But……does it have to be this way? Continue reading
Ever since I first heard about the “Shaping Our Future Forums” I have been keen as mustard to get some of our young people along to participate and have their voice heard. Megan and Blake, from Wanaka’s Young Change Makers, were also keen as mustard to get involved. We had no idea how it was going to work or if would even be interesting. It turns out that it was in fact epic, our voices were heard and now a lot more people know about WYCM! Continue reading
I’ve Been thinking about putting together a brief summary of my week accompanied, of course, with pictures snapped as I make my way through my wonderful adventures of work. This is week 1 term 2 Continue reading
One year in and Wanaka’s Young Change Makers has achieved heaps. We’ve grown, we’ve shrunk, we’ve done rad stuff and now we’re on a mission to step up. With Post Its and large paper at the ready, a collection of inquiring young minds, a RAD space and some food we are ready to start an epic winter of action! Continue reading
Earth Day is a global celebration of all the positive actions being carried out across the globe to help us protect our future. Thanks to some amazing volunteer organisation from Amber, Wanaka was set to celebrate Earth Day in a spectacular fashion and take some action! Continue reading
It’s almost a year since I started working with Wanaka’s Young Change Makers. One of the first actions we took part in was to create a Google Map of the cool free stuff to do in Wanaka, not only for residents of Wanaka but also so that any visitors that come here can see what’s going on that won’t cost them the Earth. Continue reading
Queenstown Primary have been doing an amazing job on tackling their food waste issues. Most of the school is into it, they understand the issues and have been working on ironing out the process of collecting and sorting the waste into the relevant streams. What we realised we needed to do was regenerate the slightly decrepit wooden worm farm. Continue reading
We love it when we have visitors come to our town. We generally find that they bring with them ideas and energy that we can feed from, they inspire us and guide us in new ways of taking action and coming together. We had the Regeneration crew visit us two years ago and I personally have been very excited to have them back. Continue reading
Wanaka is a buzz of talk about foraging at the moment. We have fruit and nut trees all over town laden with gorgeous edible delights. The conversation and opinions are varied about how we go about using and sharing these amazing resources. Some are easy to find, some are remote, some public & some private. Monday is Regeneration Wanaka and we need to be fed. It seemed only natural for Wanaka’s Young Change Makers to go exploring town looking for some edible delights. Continue reading