Sustainability

Sustainability

 

Eco-Living 2011Eco-living

UC Eco-Living is a series of free, fun, interactive and informative workshops run by the UC Sustainability Office to help UC staff and students live in a more environmentally friendly way.

 

A series of Earthquake Response Workshops are running in Term 1 2011 as a response to the February 22nd earthquake. These Future Proofing workshops start on April 12th 2011, click here for more information.

 

Eco-my-flat 2011 Workshops

Eco-my-flat Workshops - everyone is welcome not just eco-flatters!
Tuesdays from 5-6pm and 6:30-7:30pm , in E120 (Engineering Common Room - enter the Engineering building through the main entrance)
Eco-my-flat workshops are a series of fun, useful and practical workshops held as part of the Eco-my-flat competition where student flats compete to become the most eco-friendly flat! By making positive and sustainable changes in the way we live we can help lessen our environmental impact. These workshops are designed to teach some of the changes we can make to become more sustainable based around broad topics. Below is the timetable for the workshops, we hope you can join us!

Date: Workshop Topic: Facillitator:
10th May Energy Katie Nimmo
17th May Gardening Lily White
24th May Fermenting Tom Innes/Shona
31st May

Preserving

Jan MacKenzie
7th June

Water and Emergency kits

Sharon McIver
12th July

Eco-cleaning

Kate Henry
19th July

Sustainable Bodies

Sarah Campagnolo
26th July

Consumption

Sharon McIver
2nd August

Community

Helen Tulett

 

 

 

E-mail matthew.morris@canterbury.ac.nz for information or if you have any comments, suggestions or topics you'd like to see covered in the future.

 

 

Eco-Living Workshops 2010Eco-living

UC Eco-Living is a series of free, fun, interactive and informative workshops run by the UC Sustainability Office to help UC staff and students live in a more environmentally friendly way.

 

In Term 4 these will be held during Thursday lunchtimes, 12:10-1pm (except for the workshop on breadmaking, which will be from 1-2pm).

The details for this spring series are:

Thursday 16 September: Brewing Beer, Okeover Community Garden, 12:10-1pm
Rev. Tom Innes will be doing a "mini mash". This is an extract based brew with specialty grains and hops added.

Thursday 23 September: Make Your Own Eco Body Care products, Okeover Community Garden, 12:10-1pm
Sarah Campagnolo returns with a hands on workshop on making your own body care products, using herbs fresh from the garden.

Thursday 30 September:All About Herb Teas, Okeover Community Garden, 12:10-1pm
Keeping with the herb theme, Averil Halliday comes back to the garden to teach us about the benefits and uses of herb teas, with lots of opportunities for sampling!

Thursday 7 October: Breadmaking, Facilities Management staffroom, 1:10-2pmpm
Gaby Montejo and others will show us how to make our own fantastic sour dough breads.

Thursday 14 October (TBC): Vegan Cooking
Watch this space to see if we fire up the famous pizza oven for an end of semester fiesta!

Notes from the workshops

knitting basics Notes from the Knitting Basics workshop (PDF 1466 KB)

 

Also, remember that during term time you could also come along to the UC Gardening Group, held on Wednesdays, 12:10-1pm at the Okeover Community Garden. We've got some great topics lined up for Term 4. Click here for more information.

For further information, contact Matt Morris, Sustainable Practices Co-ordinator, at matthew.morris@canterbury.ac.nz.

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