So this is a little late...but it's Earth Hour tonight at 8.30pm! Earth Hour aims to raise awareness about sustainability and climate change by turning off lights and conserving as much power as possible for the hour - and best of all, it can be fun !If you're out hut-bagging for the weekend, cheers to you - you're already celebrating it ...

There is a lunchtime forum co-hosted by Kevin Hague Green MP  and Craig Potton, wildflife photographer and author  on Thursday 23 September at 12.15pm (seminar room 1, St Andrews on the Terrace). The Mokihinui, on the West Coast of the South Island, is one of New Zealand's last remaining wild rivers and is under ...

If you are, great news, the Government is taking steps to make it easier to stick a big, stinking hole in the middle of the beautiful places where we go to play, work and look after our mental health.  The places that shape us as New Zealanders are being actively investigated for what will happen if we dig them up and sell them to the ...

 1) Gecko 2008 ENVIRONMENT SEMINAR SERIES Seminar 1''Inside the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS): Reflections on the emission reducing potential of New Zealand's new emissions trading scheme''Who:         Geoff Bertram www.geoffbertram.comWhen:        12-1pm, 23 ...

Hi all.  I found this blog entry http://ruahineramblings.blogspot.com/2008/09/storm-clouds-gathering.html (thanks to a point from the Tounge and Meats Forum).  Exerpt below.  Basically power companies are pushing for the Tararua District Council to make it easier to erect windfarms in their territory.  Its open for public ...

Hi everyone! READ MSG BELOW and see what Meridian has planned for another of our rivers...we're having one of our tramping club FMC reps coming to talk about it at the next meeting...should be great! Also if you're really interested there's a spread about the Mokihinui proposal in the latest Forest & Bird magazine... Amelia   Hullo ...

* Dev-Zone film screening – Irene                         Monday 21st July, from 5:30pm                         ...

Our next meeting will be next Wednesday at 12pm, in Meeting Room 2 in the Student Union Building and we are lucky enough to have Pam Williams coming along to talk about environmental education.  We know that it can be hard to find time for things like Gecko, but it is amazing how much positive change a group like Gecko can make, so come along ...

   Hey all,   There are lots of interesting and important things going on this week and over the next while: Save Maui's and Hector's Dolphins-Now! Gecko Clothes Swap-May 19 Tuna Hikoi Tonight Claire's Transport Research Volunteers Needed Public Transport Forum – May 16 Manawi Karioi Ecological Restoration Project ...

Hey here is a list of some of the cool environmental events comming up around here.  1.Gecko meetin in Collins Room in the Student Union Building at 12pm Tuesday April 1. This meeting will be a bit of an info session on carbon neutrality, with Tushara Kodikara, a Gecko and author of a thesis on carbon neutrality at Vic, and Andrew ...