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 […]
Notes from Water Sensitivity Walk – Rain Gardens
July 3rd 2021 Thanks to everyone who attended our recent water sensitivity field trip around Ōtautahi Christchurch. We learned about public and private rain gardens, trees, and policy. Here are our notes. Rain gardens are a type of ‘green infrastructure’ that intercepts stormwater and removes pollutants that have been picked up as the rain flows […]
Speaking 4 the Planet 2021
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 […]
Networking for the Environment – Stories to Celebrate
This Networking for the Environment forum was on Tuesday, 29th June, 9:30am – 12:30pmTūranga Christchurch Library This event was an opportunity to hear about some of the heroes from the Environmental Leadership and Heritage of Christchurch – Canterbury project, lead in partnership by ECO Canterbury Environmental Network and SŌC. Diana Shand of ECO Canterbury was the guest speaker presenting […]
Christchurch Conversations 2021 climate series
Most of us want to do our bit for the planet, but it can be hard to know where to start. Sometimes our good intentions just aren’t enough to break old habits, or overcome barriers like time, money, or poor infrastructure. Reaching our city’s goal of cutting net carbon emissions in half by 2030 will […]
Sustainable Development Goals Summit Series – Update
The next online hui, Working Together for Change, is Thursday 24th June, 7pm – 9pm. Tickets available here. Preparations for the face-to-face event – Collaborating for Systemic Change – are continuing at an excited pace. This is locked in for 2nd – 3rd September hosted at the University of Canterbury. For up-to-date information, there is […]
Ōtautahi Christchurch Ecosystem Mapping
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 SŌC. This SŌC “biodiversity project”was launched in 1995 and the […]
SOC AGM
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 […]
Environmental Leadership and Heritage of Canterbury
In partnership with ECO Canterbury and Environment Canterbury, Sustainable Ōtautahi Christchurch are working on a significant project to record and promote the history and stories of environmental leadership and achievements from the Christchurch and Canterbury community. This project has a number of objectives: To learn of our long history of kaitiakitanga for Nature – from […]
The POD Project: “Seeding Change”
through Participatory Open Democracy a city’s commitment to sustainability is strongly linked to the advocacy of environmental and sustainability groups in the policy making process” Portney K.E. & Berry J.M. (2016) This is why Sustainable Ōtautahi Christchurch have begun the POD project. There are 2 main threads to this work. Making certain that all opportunities […]
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