Useful Resources
Looking to reduce your environmental footprint? Consumer Notice have created "A Consumer's Guide to Reducing Pollution."
A Handling and Disposal Guide covering important information such as: How to Handle Asbestos, How Asbestos is Recycled, Asbestos Safety.
This guide offers tips to reduce household water waste by fixing leaks, using efficient appliances, and watering smartly. Small daily actions make a big difference in conserving water.
Check out this useful resource for all things rubbish, recycling and organics in Christchurch. Includes links to information around collection dates, the mobile app & resource recovery centres.
This link provides information around the EcoDrop transfer stations and how to dispose of waste locally and sustainabily in Christchurch.
Find out about other recycling schemes and where to take your waste for free, rather than putting it in your red bin.
BRaid provide a variety of useful resources and links specific to braided rivers, ecology, climate change, conservation and education.
Predator Free Port Hills provides some fantastic guides on trapping and detection of predators.
Learn ways to build resilient local economies and flourishing local communities. Take action with the tools and resources in this guide.
ECAN provides information, updates, news about the latest envi happenings around Canterbury.
One Planet NZ provides an Environmental Awareness calendar for all the important days, festivals, challenges and ongoing celebrations relevant to those passionate about the environment.
A digital tool aimed at supporting the movement for sustainble shopping and the power of reuse. Calculate your carbon footprint using the consumer donation calculator.
Sustainable Taranaki's approach to ensuring a safe and healthy environment by managing the risks associated with drug and alcohol use.
This online study examines how media frames youth climate distress and offers constructive tools to understanding and addressing youth mental health in climate crisis.
As a food policy for reducing waste, Para Kore promotes waste reduction and prefers vegetarian, locally sourced, and organic food for hui while encouraging minimal packaging and gratitude toward caterers.
The EHA Fraud Policy explains how Environment Hubs Aotearoa prevents, detects, and handles fraud to ensure trust and integrity.
A comprehensive financial policy outlining procedures for budgeting, finance management, and oversight.
This EHA paper offers guidance on financial strength and good governance to help organizations improve policies, diversify income, and stay sustainable.
Employsure Ltd highlights the key differences between employees and independent contractors to help businesses understand their obligations.
Bullying and Harassment Policy by Sustainable Taranaki to foster a respectful workplace and outline procedures for reporting and addressing unacceptable behavior.
EHA provides guidelines for staff working from home to ensure a safe and healthy work environment, addressing potential hazards and promoting well-being.
The Whistleblowing Policy at Sustainable Taranaki enables confidential reporting of serious wrongdoing while ensuring protections for whistleblowers.
This website contains evidence-based research and advice on reusable packaging systems in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Includes a number of resources to build individual and collective awareness.
NZAEE have pulled together a range of teaching resources and relevant professional learning material, and written spotlights to feature inspiring people and local action.
One Planet NZ provides an Environmental Awareness calendar for all the important days, festivals, challenges and ongoing celebrations relevant to those passionate about the environment.
This online study examines how media frames youth climate distress and offers constructive tools to understanding and addressing youth mental health in climate crisis.
Canva is a user-friendly graphic design platform that is free for charities. Create stunning visuals using templates and easy drag-and-drop tools.
CapCut is a powerful video editing app available for mobile and desktop. It features fun templates that are excellent for multimedia storytelling and content creation.
Here is one of the best step-by-step CapCut video editing tutorials to help you master mobile and desktop editing from scratch.
Instagram Edits is an excellent free editing tool perfect for creating and sharing videos across all your favorite social platforms.
A comprehensive step-by-step video guide on how to use the new Instagram Edits app for seamless mobile video creation.
An ultra-compact wireless microphone kit designed to ensure crisp, high-quality audio for smartphone video interviews.
A community video project featuring 50 short smartphone interviews that capture local stories, hopes, and ideas to build community connection.
A great demonstration of text-and-video integration, adding essential backstory, context, and written summaries around recorded video interviews.
iLovePDF is an free online tool that enables users to easily edit, convert, and manage PDF documents.
VOTE Compass have made it easy to figure out which political party you best align with. Try their short survey to found out who you support.
Policy.nz makes it easy to compare policies across all political parties. Making it easier to inform your decision when voting.
Ever wondered how to have your say on local council decisions? Click here to find out how your local council works.
If you’re keen to ask your local candidates some questions but you’re not sure what, this guide includes some ideas to get you started. Thank you to Sustainable Ōtautahi Christchurch and the hui participants who suggested questions.
Yeah, Nah. is an environmental advocacy platform that empowers citizens to protect New Zealand’s forests and coastlines. It provides a quick submission tool for people to make their voices heard and oppose fast-tracked laws that threaten nature.
CCC have created a fantastic Smart Map that gives visual indication to where all the stormwater, utilities, waste water and water supply originate and flow to.
Take a look at all the ongoing and previous projects occuring along the Ōtākaro Avon River Network. Check out how this living laboratory can be a site for learning, experimenting and researching new ideas for change.
CCC's SmartView pulls together real-time data from a range of public and private organisations, making information easy for locals and visitors to access.
TrapSim Plus will help land managers and communities compare scenarios in planning and designing ground-based predator control and eradication strategies.
Datascience programs provides courses on how data science can address climate change by analyzing trends and improving solutions in energy, agriculture, and air quality.
An oranisation that connects people with volunteer opportunities and supports groups to build communities through volunteering.
Christchurch environmental resources