Selwyn Responsible Business Network Welcomes New Coordinator and is Looking Forward to an Exciting 2024.

Selwyn Responsible Business Network Welcomes New Coordinator

and is looking forward to an exciting 2024.

We have recently been privileged to make the appointment of Maree Hamilton to the position of Selwyn Responsible Network Coordinator. Maree has recently returned from Europe and brings extensive experience from working on large business sustainability projects there. Maree has already begun engaging with local businesses and is looking forward to continued dialogue with the business community regarding their environmental and community initiatives.

The Selwyn Responsible Business Network aims to provide supportive contact with Selwyn’s businesses. Through discussion, sharing of best practices, initiatives and experiences we can enhance environmental sustainability and community resilience. As public awareness of these issues continues to grow we look forward to informing people about the excellent work being done by our local businesses.

2024 is a Selwyn Responsible Business Awards Year and we look forward to celebrating the endeavors of local organisations in environmental stewardship and community engagement.

These awards are held every two years. In 2022 the awards showcased around 80 enterprises.

“The Awards process is very straightforward with a visit and a chat rather than any form filling” explains Maree. “We hope many businesses will take the opportunity to share their achievements and be recognised for their sustainability commitments.”

The network is excited to collaborate and celebrate with Selwyn’s business community on building a more sustainable, resilient future.

To learn more about the Selwyn Responsible Business Network or the 2024 Awards contact Maree Hamilton.

Responsible Business Network Coordinator

022 438 4496

rbacoordinator@gmail.com

Focus for Future

Environmental Short Film Competition

May 1 @ 9:00 am – August 27 @ 5:00 pm

Free

Into Film? Passionate about the Environment? We challenge you to Focus for Future!

Make a short film (under 5 minutes) about our Environment or highlighting a specific environmental issue you are passionate about. Get creative and send us your film by 5pm, Tuesday 27th August 2024.

The competition is open to all, and you are encouraged to be as creative as you like, using any combination of live-action video, animation, graphics or slides to carry your environmental message.

There will be an Awards Ceremony & Film Screening in September 2024 (date TBA) at Te Ara Atea. Top films will be awarded prizes in multiple categories.

Instructions

Download the instructions and entry forms. – This includes everything you need to get started on your film.
Create your film (5 minutes or less) highlighting an environmental issue. Get creative!
Submit your completed film and entry forms by 5pm, Tuesday August 27th.

Focus for Future and inspire environmental action through the power of film!

Contact Lincoln Envirotown Trust

+64 3 423 0445

projectmanagerlet@gmail.com

Te Ara Ātea

56 Tennyson Street
Rolleston, 7614 New Zealand + Google Map

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Lincoln’s Mahoe Native Reserve April Working Bee

April 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Free

Come along and help us restore and maintain the Mahoe Native Reserve in Lincoln.

Working bees are the first Sunday of every month from 2.00 pm.

Entry to the Reserve is on Boundary Road, Lincoln (opposite the High School).

Contact Mahoe Reserve

03 4230445

mahoereserve@gmail.com

Mahoe Reserve (opposite the high school main entrance)

34 Boundary Road
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

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Plastic – Kim Hill Hot Topic

March 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

$5 KOHA. Cash on the door

Join Kim Hill and panellists in a stimulating discussion on Plastic. As per tradition, the well-known Radio personality Kim Hill will lead a panel of experts who will discuss this year’s topic “PLASTIC – how do we live with it”. Once the panel have deliberated their varying views, the audience will be invited to question panel members.

Issues relating to the problems associated with our overuse of plastic have been prevalent for many years and its disastrous impacts on ocean life are well catalogued. The panelists will discuss all issues relating to how essential plastic might be, our ability to reduce consumption, and our means of recycling the plastic we use.

The evening is always a well-attended stimulating and enjoyable occasion; all are welcome.

Panellists:

Rob Wilson

Operations Manager, Eco Central

Rob is the Operations Manager for EcoCentral Limited, a Christchurch City Council owned business operating the three Refuse Transfer Stations and Resource Recovery Centres, Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), and EcoShop resale Shop. EcoCentral’s MRF is the second largest semi-automated sorting plant in NZ and processing kerbside recycling for Christchurch City Council, Waimakariri District Council, Selwyn District Council and a number of other smaller councils in the Canterbury region.

Over the last 15+ years, Rob has been involved in Residential Kerbside Collection contracts, Commercial Waste, Earthquake Construction and Demolition processing and most recently Transfer Station and Recycling plant operation. Rob and EcoCentral have contributed to the Transforming Recycling and recent standardising kerbside discussions providing unbiased processing perspectives to the challenges presented by current packing approaches. EcoCentral focusses their attention on finding ways to make dealing with unwanted products easy and promote avenues to avoid and reduce waste, reuse and recover unwanted products and contribute to a more circular approach in NZ.

Rob brings an operator’s perspective to the world of waste, seeking practical solutions to minimise and avoid waste in the first place and then promoting easily recoverable and recyclable material for the remaining items so that they can be reprocessed back into other products.

Rob Wilson is currently a member of the WasteMINZ Product Stewardship Steering Committee, Reuse Working Group and the Recycling and Resource Recovery Steering Committee.

Rachel Barker

CEO, Plastics New Zealand

With a strong technical background in product development, plastics processing and polymers, Rachel Barker has a passion for helping her Members and the wider NZ resource recovery system transition successfully to a circular plastics economy. Rachel’s broad experience with local and international plastics regulations, and various groups across plastics, resource recovery, and manufacturing provides an excellent base for sharing insights with stakeholders.

Prof. Ian Shaw

Professor, Canterbury University

Ian Shaw is Professor of Toxicology at the University of Canterbury. He is an international expert on the impact of environmental contaminants on human health, particularly in a food safety context and particularly relating to plastics. He has had over 40 years’ experience in academia, industry and government, in the UK, New Zealand and Indonesia, which includes chairing the UK Pesticide Residues Committee and working as the National Food Safety Programme Manager at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR).

He has been a member of several NZ government advisory committees including health impacts of climate change, fortification of food with folate and setting statutory limits for drug driving offences. Ian has written about 150 papers – his latest explores microplastics as a cause of early onset colorectal cancer. He has written or edited 5 books (with a 6^th due out in January 2024) – he recently co-edited Plastic Legacies which explores the social science and environmental impacts of plastics. Ian is a passionate communicator of science: he won the NZ Association of Scientists’ Science Communicator’s Award in 2009, but his greatest joy is being awarded Science Lecturer of the Year by the University of Canterbury Students’ Association in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. He was awarded a DSc by the University of Bath for his work in toxicology, food safety and science communication in 2019.

Prof. Gavin Lear

Professor, Auckland University

Gavin is a Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland. His group explores how microbial communities adapt to human influences such as pollution events and agricultural management. A particular focus of Gavin’s research is to better understand how changes to microbial communities impact environmental health and production potential. Gavin is a key member of the Aotearoa Impacts and Mitigation of Microplastics team, undertaking the first comprehensive research to quantify the impacts of plastics on the New Zealand environment.

Event Details:

Booking is not required. Doors open 6.30 pm, Event starts 7.30 pm in Stewart Building, Lincoln University.

Refreshments and nibbles are provided with alcoholic beverages available from a cash bar.

Contact Lincoln Envirotown Trust

+64 3 423 0445

projectmanagerlet@gmail.com

Lincoln University

Ellesmere Junction Road/Springs Road
Lincoln, 7647 New Zealand + Google Map

Sponsors:
We extend our sincere appreciation to all our sponsors Rata Foundation, Selwyn District Council, COGS, Lottery Community, Lincoln University, Plant & Food Research, Environment Canterbury, AgResearch, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Resycl Ltd, Without Waste, ESR.

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March Selwyn Trap Library

March 23 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Free

Come and see us for trapping advice and free trap hire.

The trap library will lend you the right type of predator control device to remove problematic pests like rats, hedgehogs, possums and stoats. We can also advise you on bait and the best location for your trap.

The aim is to remove these predators so the birds and plants can flourish.

The Selwyn Trap Library is usually open on the last Saturday of every month at the Lincoln Farmers & Craft Market.

Registration is not required, just come along.

Contact Selwyn Trap Library

03 423 0445

selwyntraplibrary@gmail.com

Lincoln Farmers & Craft Market (located behind Lincoln Library)

22 Gerald Street
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

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Envirotown Social

March 19 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Free

Lincoln Envirotown invite you to a casual evening of delicious bites at The Laboratory Lincoln Mezzanine!

It’s a great opportunity to connect with the passionate individuals behind our various projects and share ideas for future initiatives. It’s also a chance for us to express thanks to our dedicated volunteers and supporters with a spread of pizza and nibbles. Whether you’ve supported one of our events or you’re simply curious about Lincoln Envirotown Trust, everyone is warmly welcome to join us.

See you there!

Contact Lincoln Envirotown Trust

+64 3 423 0445

projectmanagerlet@gmail.com

The Laboratory

17 West Belt
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

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Lincoln’s Mahoe Native Reserve March Working Bee

March 3 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Free

Come along and help us restore and maintain the Mahoe Native Reserve in Lincoln.

Working bees are the first Sunday of every month from 2.00 pm.

Entry to the Reserve is on Boundary Road, Lincoln (opposite the High School).

Contact Mahoe Reserve

03 4230445

mahoereserve@gmail.com

Mahoe Reserve (opposite the high school main entrance)

34 Boundary Road
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

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Lincoln’s Mahoe Native Reserve February Working Bee

February 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Free

Come along and help us restore and maintain the Mahoe Native Reserve in Lincoln.

Working bees are the first Sunday of every month from 2.00 pm.

Entry to the Reserve is on Boundary Road, Lincoln (opposite the High School).

Contact Mahoe Reserve

03 4230445

mahoereserve@gmail.com

Mahoe Reserve (opposite the high school main entrance)

34 Boundary Road
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

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Tourism Reset

March 30 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Join Kim Hill and panellists in a stimulating discussion

The discussion will examine the issue of tourism on the environment.

Panellists:

Stephen Espiner | Associate Professor, Lincoln University

Susanne Becken | Principal Science Investment Advisor

Tyla Harrison-Hunt | City Councillor, Taumutu Representative

Justin Watson | Christchurch Airport

Stephen Espiner | Associate Professor, Lincoln University

Stephen Espiner is an Associate Professor in Parks, Recreation and Tourism at Lincoln University with 25 years’ research and teaching experience in nature-based tourism and outdoor recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand’s protected areas. As an integrative social scientist, he is interested in the human dimensions of natural resources management and environmental change, with particular reference to parks, recreation and tourism and associated conservation, community and visitor management issues. Stephen is co-Head of the University’s Department of Tourism, Sport and Society, and led the University’s Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Tourism from 2020-2022.

Susanne Becken | Principal Science Investment Advisor

Susanne Becken is a Professor of Sustainable Tourism at Griffith University in Australia and the Principal Science Investment Advisor (Visitor) in the Department of Conservation, New Zealand. She is also a Vice Chancellor Research Fellow at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Susanne is a member of the Air New Zealand Sustainability Advisory Panel, a Fellow of the International Academy of the Study of Tourism and the 2019 UNWTO Ulysses Award winner.

Tyla Harrison-Hunt | City Councillor, Taumutu Representative

Tyla Harrison-Hunt is the city councillor for the Riccarton ward. Over the past 10 years, he has been involved in running businesses aimed at Youth focused initiatives in sport, and volunteerism in community events and owns a business consultancy. He has travelled the world as a public speaker. (Australia, Germany, USA and Aotearoa NZ). He is on many governance committees and boards across New Zealand and abroad. He has a passion for environmentalism, sustainability, social equity and business. He is of Ngai Tahu, Te Atiawa and Ngāti Porou descent and is a representative of Taumutu.

Justin Watson | Christchurch Airport

Justin is the Chief Executive at Christchurch International Airport, responsible for leading the airports aeronautical development, customer, HR and commercial teams. He has an extensive career in international marketing and leadership roles spanning more than 20 years. Prior to the airport, Justin held the roles of Director of Trade, PR & Major Events and GM Marketing at Tourism New Zealand and before that he was Director of Marketing at McDonald’s New Zealand & Pacific Islands and Marketing Manager at Coca-Cola Oceania. Justin has a broad experience base, including significant international marketing and partnership experience, having worked intimately with all of New Zealand’s key international trading partners, along with industry experience across FMCG, retail, tourism and government. Justin is on the New Zealand China Council and was previously a Tourism Industry Aotearoa board member and member of the Tourism Futures Taskforce.

Event Details:

Doors open at 6.30 pm, Event starts at 7.30 pm. Follow the signs for Stewart Building, Lincoln University.

Refreshments and nibbles provided. Alcoholic beverages available from a cash bar.

$5 KOHA Appreciated

Contact Lincoln Envirotown Trust

+64 3 423 0445

projectmanagerlet@gmail.com

Lincoln University

Ellesmere Junction Road/Springs Road
Lincoln, 7647 New Zealand + Google Map

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Selwyn Schools’ Waste Art Competition

Free

Competition and art exhibition that will challenge the way we look at waste.

February 21 @ 9:00 am – August 14 @ 5:00 pm

About this event

Create a piece of art assembled or constructed from previously used materials which otherwise would have likely gone to landfill, the artwork is aimed at making us re-consider our views on rubbish and reusing.

The competition is open to any individual or pair (not group entries) of artists who is High School or Intermediate age (Year 7-13) attending school in Selwyn or home schooling in the Selwyn District.

Awards & Prizes

Every entrant receives a prize but the aim of the competition is centred around our young people enjoying their artwork and re-thinking the issue of waste and our environment. Prizes are awarded for first, second and third place, there is also a category prize for best High School and Intermediate entry. We are happy to say that we have been able to match the high value of prizes provided in previous years.

The awards will take place at 1pm on Sunday 27th August and will be presented by Deputy Mayor Malcolm Lyall. All entries will be taken to be displayed at Te Ara Ātea, Rolleston from 3pm on Friday 25th August and remain on public display until 4pm Sunday 27th August 2023.

How to Enter

Please register your entry by 5pm on Monday 14th August 2022 by downloading the below information pack, completing and returning the Entry Form on page 3.

PDF Information Pack (includes entry form)

MS Word Information Pack (includes entry form)