31 March 2012 - Bicycle repair workshop with Andrew from the Cycle Centre
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FREE public information morning held at the Upper Hutt Library
with Bob Munro from Moss Green Garden hosting an open discussion forum
on how
to grow your own food at home and demonstrates
plant proagation
techniques. You can learn how easy it is to grow
your own food and feed you family.
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26 November 2011 - Grow your own groceries
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FREE public information morning held at the Upper Hutt Library
with Bob Munro from Moss Green Garden hosting an open discussion forum
on how
to grow your own food at home and demonstrates
plant proagation
techniques. You can learn how easy it is to grow
your own food and feed you family.
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16 July 2011 - Wormery Workshop
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The next Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets community workshop is ‘opening a can of
worms,’ home composting using a wormery.
The workshop is taking place on
16th July from 10am -12pm.
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In the first session (10am-11am), the workshop attendees will learn how to
assemble a wormery with low cost recycled materials.
In the second
session (11am-12pm), Dan ‘the worm man’ Jones will talk about both homebuilt and
store bought wormeries and answer questions. At the completion of the workshop,
one lucky attendee will walk away with a brand new wormery worth $119 courtesy
of the team at Upper Hutt Mitre10 Mega (worms not
included).
Registrations are essential – please register by contacting
the library on 527 2171 or library@uhcc.govt.nz
by no later than 5pm on Thursday 14th July.
For additional information
please contact Rod Boys on 527 2153 or roderick.boys@uhcc.govt.nz
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library wormery will be used to compost Upper Hutt City Councils organic waste
and in addition, serve as an ongoing educational tool for library visitors. The
recycled bathtub and other materials are sourced from Earthlink, promoting
reuse, recycling and composting in Upper Hutt.
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8 May 2011 - Healthy Homes Happy Pockets - Earth Hour Special
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Sunday 8 May 2011
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11am - 4pm |
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Upper Hutt City Library, 844 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt
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FREE event and giveaways!
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Get energy efficient and save $$ on your power bills! Come along to learn
about... - how to get insulated, easily and with subsidies - keeping
your home warm, dry and healthy.
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Come along to meet the real people and organisations that can help you to save
money and make positive changes for your family’s health and the environment.
Everything you need to know, from solar hot water heating to compost for your
garden, insulation to keep you warm and cycling around town. This is an Earth
Hour Special Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets event. Join us on the day for
life-changing info, fun and freebies!
FREE home sustainability info kit…
and giveaways.
For more info contact the Upper Hutt City Library on
5272117 or library@uhcc.govt.nz
Click here to
download a poster (PDF, 73K)
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26 March 2011 - Healthy Homes Happy Pockets - Earth Hour Special
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Saturday 26 March 2011 |
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2pm - 4pm |
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Upper Hutt City Library, 844 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt
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FREE event and giveaways!
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Get energy efficient and save $$ on your power bills! Come along to learn
about... - how to get insulated, easily and with subsidies - keeping
your home warm, dry and healthy.
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Savings you could easily make on your power bill through quick and easy
changes FREE home sustainability info kit… and GIVEAWAYS! Register by
contacting the Upper Hutt City Library on 5272117 or
library@uhcc.govt.nz Brought to you by Community Services, Upper Hutt
City Council, Upper Hutt City Library, and Earth Hour New Zealand.
More information: www.upperhuttcity.com/healthyhomes Contact: Upper Hutt City Library on 527-2117. Email: library@uhcc.govt.nz
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| 7 March 2010 - Roof water harvesting workshops and seminar |
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Seminar
Previously popular Healthy Homes, Happy
Pockets speaker Stan Abbott, Director of the Roof Water Research Centre
at Massey University, returned to Upper Hutt to give another
thought-provoking presentation on:
- the benefits of installing rainwater tanks
- types of tanks and pumps available and the costs involved
- design features and preventative management procedures
Further advice on water conservation will also
be available on the evening. Stan Abbott's presentation in November 2009
was so popular, the event was booked out.
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Monday 7 March
6 to 7pm
Upper Hutt City Library, 844 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt |
Interactive Workshops
Interactive “how to” workshops on building a
rainwater collection system were held at Pinehaven Community Hall on 19
February and 5 March. The workshop leaders and participants constructed
the tank base, installed the tank and connected it to the roofwater
downpipe. More details at www.transitiontowns.org.nz/upperhutt
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30 November 2010 - Budgeting made easy and money-saving tips just in time for Christmas
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Speakers Diane Thomson from
SuperGrans and Sue Kennedy from Agape Budgeting Services lead the
audience of 50 on the following topics:
• Savings around the home, including alternative cleaners and growing vegetables
• Food costs
• Creating a budget, bearing in mind the costs of clothing, gifts and more
• Pros and cons of using credit cards and hire purchase
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12 October 2010 - Basic vegetable gardening
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Local gardening guru Judy
Griffiths led a workshop on how to grow vegetables cheaply and easily in
pots or on a small space of land. Her gems of wisdom included:
- how a packet of mesclun seeds can
provide over four times the amount of mesclun salad than a bag of
mesclun mix at the supermarket, at the same price.
- the no-dig garden, meaning that there are no weeds to pull up
- what produce from the garden she has bottled so she can last the winter with vegetables
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30 July 2010 - Fruit trees and compost
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St Margaret’s church was filled
with over 100 people attending to learn more about how to grow fruit
trees in the Hutt Valley and how to make the best compost.
Bernadine Lincoln from Mitre 10 Mega Petone gave
a presentation on how to grow fruit trees, how to choose and prepare a
site, and what varieties grow well in the Hutt Valley.
Charles Barrie, compost connosieur, presented on
how to build a compost bin (using tyres or old pellets), what to put in
your compost, and how worm farms and bokashi systems work.
Thanks to Pat, Margaret and Lynne from St
Margaret’s Church in Silverstream for making this event successful (and
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29 June 2010 - Neighbourhood trading systems
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This interactive workshop offered an
in-depth understanding of how neighbourhood trading systems work. Linnea
Lindstroem from the Wellington Independent Trading System (WITS) led
the workshop on:
- Getting what you need without dollars
- Helping others out with your skills and your stuff
People in the workshop shared what services they
would like to have and what they could offer. In this system, people
can “bank” points meaning that it doesn’t have to be a direct trade. To
see more information or to be part of WITS (which is a Wellington
regional system) visit http://www.community-exchange.org/
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1 June 2010 - Winter’s here! Have no fear! Learn new ways to keep warm over winter
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Over 40 people attended this event in the middle of winter to learn more about keeping warm in an efficient way.
The evenings topics and speakers were:
- Cheap and easy ways to keep warm – Sarah Free (Home Energy Advice Centre/Sustainability Trust)
- Solar water heating and heat pump water heating – Eddie Thompson (Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority)
- Funding available to insulate homes and
install energy efficient heating – Marie Brown (Energy Efficiency
Conservation Authority)
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13 February 2010 - Minimum budget, maximum impact – the wisdom of Lyn Webster
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Lyn Webster from Taranaki packed out another
Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets event. The Hapai Club was at maximum
capacity with 150 people attending on the night.
Lyn spoke about her
- The $75 weekly grocery budget
- Homemade cleaning products and cosmetics
Her tips can be found on her website http://pigtitsandparsleysauce.co.nz/
This event couldn’t have been done without the incredible work from the Kings Arms Church.
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30 November 2009 - Roofwater harvesting in urban environments
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Upper Hutt City Library was packed to maximum capacity (there were only
just enough chairs!) when Stan Abbott, Director of the Roofwater
Research Centre, Massey University, presented on roofwater harvesting
in urban environments.
This topic was so successful that it will be repeated in early 2011.
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21 September 2009 - Water conservation and energy efficiency
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For the second Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets
event, held in Upper Hutt City Library, there was an expansion of the
popular topic of energy efficiency, with the addition of water
conservation in time for spring. The Home Energy Advice Centre offered
everyone the chance to go into a prize draw for a free home energy
efficiency assessment.
Topics and presenters were:
- Water conservation – John Baines (Capacity/Upper Hutt City Council)
- Energy efficiency and funding available to insulate homes - Mike Fairfield (Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority)
- Insulation – Susan Cameron (Cozy Cool – insulation provider)
- Energy efficiency in the home – Sally Blackwell (Home Energy Advice Centre/Sustainability Trust)
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10 December 2008 - The inaugral Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets event
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Over 40 people attended the first ever Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets event held in the Hapai Club in December 2008.
The topics with outstanding selection of speakers were:
Energy efficiency and funding available to insulate homes - Mike Fairfield (Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority)
Budget Advice - Lynne Wyeman (Upper Hutt Budget Advisory Service)
Dividing household waste and how to make compost - Charles Barrie (Porirua City Council, Sustainability Trust and Enviroschools)
The first 20 people to arrive also received a
free goodie bag with giveaways (a tomato plant, energy efficient light
bulb, seeds and information). Everyone who attended also went into the
draw to win a home insulation retrofit generously donated by EnergySmart
and the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust. Second prize was a compost bin.
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