Topic: Environment

Get Sus'd in your Library

We spoke with Dominic Salmon, the HDC Waste Minimisation Officer, about the Sus’d campaign on Radio Kidnappers….did you know your library has SUS’d information available including the booklet Twenty Five Easy Steps Towards Sustainability?

You can read more about SUS’d and get lots of great tips on www.susd.org.nz.

Here are a few of the titles available to help you in your mission to save money while helping the environment!

Garden Competition

Win a Raised Vege Garden

To help you save your money and save our environment, Sus’d is giving away as prizes 3 raised garden beds to get you started, one for each of our libraries.

Earth Hour Seminars

A series of Earth Hour seminars are being held in Hastings Library by Angela Atkins, Waste Minimisation Planner for the Hastings District Council.

The topics covered are:

Creating a Healthy Energy Efficient Home - Tuesday 22 March 6.30pm

Solar Water Heating, is it the Answer? - Tuesday 29 March 6.30pm

Water Conservation, What is it? - Tuesday 29 March 6.30pm

For more information on these seminars...

Earth Hour

WWF Earth Hour 2011 - Beyond the Hour

At 8.30pm on Saturday 26 March 2011, people in New Zealand and around the world will switch off for Earth Hour.

Earth Hour is a worldwide commitment to ongoing change to protect our living planet.  Join in, switch off and show support for environmentally sustainable action.

This Earth Hour, go beyond the hour.  Take action to make our world a better place and share your act with the world. Add your action to this cool site! Click on the little squares to read actions by others.  http://www.beyondthehour.org/#

See also Earth Hour - NZ website: http://www.wwf.org.nz/earth_hour 

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