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Getting Our Rubbish Sorted - Seminar organised by Civic Trust Auckland
Tuesday 17 January, 7.00 to 9.00pm, Kinder House, 2 Ayr Street, Parnell
Aucklanders have a unique opportunity, perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to have their say on a major resource management issue
that affects us all. This is the Draft Waste Strategy - an initiative put forward to us by the new Auckland Council.
It's not really waste - it's resources that we are land filling by the thousands of tons each day. How can we move beyond a wasteful
mindset, and get our rubbish sorted? Landfills are extremely expensive to build, impossible to find a new site for, ticking time bombs
in the environment (if and when their liners start to leak), and represent the dead-ending of our resources. The Auckland Draft WMMP
(Waste Management and Minimisation Plan) aims to reduce waste by 30% per person by 2018. The Plan also indicates that wasted materials
can be turned into new products or jobs or resources through one of the most intriguing ideas - a resource recovery facility, or a
network of resource recovery centres.
Diane Winder presented to 25+ people including members of a variety of groups such as the CBD Residents' Advisory Group,
Mt Eden Village People, Friends of the Earth, the United Nations Association of NZ (Northern Region Branch), the Chinese
Conservation Education Trust, Forest and Bird, the Kinder House Society and Auckland Council. Submissions on the "Draft
Auckland Council Waste Management and Minimisation Plan" are due on 31 January and information on the plan and making a
submission is available at
this Auckland Council website
Diane Winder is a member of ACZWA (Auckland Community Zero Waste Alliance), a trustee of the Sustainable North Trust, an educational
group that helps inform people about topics on sustainability, waste and more. She is past National Vice-President of UNANZ (United
Nations Association of New Zealand), and delegate to the UN DPI/NGO Conference on Climate Change. Diane will be ordained as an
Interfaith Minister in New York City in June 2012. Amongst her interests include ecology, environmental and social justice, and
spirituality and cultural diversity.
Seminars are an important education area for Civic Trust Auckland, which has enjoyed a rich history in this field since its inception.
Seminar subjects typically cover these fields:
- Architecture
- Building Heritage
- General planning
- Heritage planning
- Locality Heritage
- Maori Heritage
From these disciplines:
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Geography
- Geology
- History
- Planning
Subjects are not limited to those above and presenters from many other walks of life would be welcome at future seminars.
From the early 1990's most professional institutes have required their practitioners to accumulate CPD points (continuing professional development), resulting in heavy work loads and severe constraints on time.
Civic Trust Auckland is aware of the problem, but for its members, the rapid increase in quality seminars with public participation has been a boon. Civic Trust Auckland members can keep abreast of forthcoming seminars and other educational activities from this site. Note the various Heritage weeks, Matarangi events, University adult learning courses, activities at various museums and a host of other events to fill any calendar.
Within this busy schedule Civic Trust Auckland managed to fit a seminar organised by Jan Crawford into late 2005.
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