Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust – A Successful Track Record Excuse the pun, but it’s testament to the successful track record of the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust that many of the area’s walking tracks and an iconic bike trail are entrusted to their oversight. When the Little River Rail Trail Trust wound up in Read more…
Category: Impact Stories
Canterbury Community Gardens Association – Cantabrians love getting their hands dirty
Canterbury Community Gardens Association – Cantabrians love getting their hands dirty With more than 80 community gardens and food forests flourishing throughout Canterbury – and more sprouting up each year – the region has the most communal food-growing spaces in New Zealand. “We have the highest density in the whole country,” says horticulturalist Sandi Bobkova, Read more…
Avon Ōtakaro Network – No more plastic geese, thanks!
Avon Ōtakaro Network – No more plastic geese, thanks! A small plastic goose sits on the railing of a series of wooden bins into which Avon Ōtakaro Network manager Hayley Guglietta sorts detritus that’s been scooped up from one of our city’s iconic awa (rivers). The plastic toy will become a quirky souvenir of the Read more…
Te Ara Kākāriki – creating a corridor of green ‘dots’
Te Ara Kākāriki – creating a corridor of green ‘dots’ Between the Waimakariri and Rakaia Rivers, spreading across the Selwyn district of Mid Canterbury, concentrations of native bush are growing in height and popularity although people are unlikely to get the chance to admire most of them. Green ‘dots’ – areas of regenerating bush containing Read more…
Conservation Volunteers of New Zealand
Conservation Volunteers New Zealand – Wheelbarrows and a willingness to organise logistical help With wheelbarrows and a couple of spare pairs of gumboots at the ready, Conservation Coordinator Donna Lusby is instructing eight people of varying ages on how to have a safe, productive and enjoyable morning planting trees. As the local volunteer coordinator for Read more…
Engineers for Social Responsibility
Engineers for Social Responsibility – Offering lifetimes of professional wisdom It’s an unusual interview when the infamous movie character Hannibal Lector – from the cult horror film Silence of the Lambs – gets mentioned in a conversation about professional ethics alongside Aristotle and an 18th century German philosopher, but engineers are a special breed and Read more…