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Speaking 4 The Planet 2023

22/06/2022 by Dave Evans

Speaking 4 the Planet (S4P) is a public speaking, spoken word, performance and visual arts competition. It provides opportunities for students to express their ideas for a better world. This will be the 5th year S4P has been held in Christchurch. With the UN’s World Environment Day theme as a starting point, students prepare and deliver punchy, quirky, […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Education, Meetings and Events, Projects, Sustainable Living Tagged With: speaking for the planet

The Community Waterways Partnership Charter

23/09/2021 by Dave Evans

The Christchurch City Council recently launched a Community Waterways Partnership. This aims to support the development of community-based initiatives to improve the ecological health, indigenous biodiversity, and amenity value of our urban waterways.  The Partnership is connecting Council, Regional Council, Ngāi Tahu, DoC, Ministry for the Environment, Canterbury District Health Board, and organisations such as […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Water

Speaking 4 the Planet 2021

06/06/2021 by Dave Evans

Speaking 4 the Planet

Speaking 4 the Planet is an art-based competition offering students in years 7-13 + early tertiary, an opportunity to address sustainability issues creatively. This is the third year this event has run in Christchurch.   Students have the opportunity to submit entries to one of the following categories:  Public speaking (prepared speech)  Spoken word poetry  Visual […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Education, Meetings and Events

Ōtautahi Christchurch Ecosystem Mapping

25/05/2021 by Dave Evans

At the recent SŌC AGM we heard the fascinating story of the Ōtautahi Christchurch Indigenous Ecosystem Mapping which in the 1990s gave us the native plant guides for greater Christchurch, put together by Di Lucas, Colin Meurk and other local scientists – and commissioned by a Christchurch-Ōtautahi Agenda 21 Forum project (one of SŌC’s predecessors). […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, History, Projects

SOC AGM

25/05/2021 by Dave Evans

The Sustainable Ōtautahi Christchurch AGM will be on Thursday May 27th at 7.30pm, venue WEA, 59 Gloucester St. The speakers at the SOC AGM will give the fascinating story of the  Ōtautahi Christchurch Indigenous Ecosystem Mapping which gave us the native plant guides for greater Christchurch put together by Di Lucas with local scientists – commissioned […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Meetings and Events

Update: Aotearoa Sustainable Development Goals Summit Series 2020/2021

21/12/2020 by Dave Evans

The Sustainable Development Goals Summit Series held the first of three online hui in November. The event, See the Change, was a success in attracting over 120 attendees, 87 of which signed up to be post-event Virtual Coffee Buddies. These catch-ups allow participants to reconnect and continue learning from one another. One of the key speakers […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Sustainable Living

Invitation to Speaking for the Planet Community Celebration

04/08/2020 by Dave Evans

Thursday, September 24th, 7pm at the WEA, 59 Gloucester St. While it was necessary to run the Speaking for the Planet competition online this year, and that went well, we want to offer our prize winning speakers the opportunity to present to a live audience. We want to celebrate the efforts of all the competitors […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Meetings and Events, Sustainable Living

Speaking 4 the Planet Results

10/06/2020 by Dave Evans

If you missed the prizegiving last Friday (5 June) you can still watch a recording of it on the S4P Facebook page! Congratulations again to all our winners and big thanks to everyone who entered. You can see all the placed speeches, artworks and memes on the S4P YouTube channel.

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Meetings and Events, Sustainable Living

Speaking 4 the Planet Sponsors

29/05/2020 by Dave Evans

Read about the six fantastically generous sponsors (Environment Canterbury, Ara Institute, Earth Sea Sky, Orana Wildlife Park, NZ Association for Environmental Education and Sustainable Ōtautahi Christchurch ) on this page.

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Meetings and Events, Sustainable Living

Speaking 4 the Planet Judges

20/05/2020 by Dave Evans

Meme Judges

We are counting down to our online Speaking 4 the Planet event! Check out our this page for details of our amazing judges!

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Meetings and Events

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