Want to learn how to save money on your power bill? Grow a new garden? Reduce your waste? Clever tips and tricks to make your home more energy efficient?
We’re keen to help you become more sustainable in your daily life through participation in Future Living Skills, a free programme of interactive workshops delivered locally by Environment Network Manawatū (ENM).
Over the eight-week series, hear from council and community experts on a range of topics and share your own ideas, challenges, and tips. The workshops are friendly and informal - we can all learn from each other!
For more information about topics covered and to register go to the Future Living Skills website or email support@enm.org.nz.
Topics covered include:
Gardening - The basics of gardening including working with soil and the elements and a demonstration of how to grow from seed. Natural ways to fertilise our gardens and maintain healthy crops, with some hands-on outdoor activities, weather permitting.
Water - Learn about where our water comes from, and how we can use it more efficiently and avoid pollution
Waste reduction - Learn about Council’s resource recovery systems and other ways we can reduce, reuse and recycle stuff
Travel choices - Consider different ways we could travel more sustainably including active and low-carbon travel.
Energy/Eco-renovation - Lots of tips, information and advice about ways to save energy while having a warmer, drier and healthier home
Food choices - Food is so central to life - we’ll consider what food choices could be healthier for us and the planet.
Resilience & Disaster Preparedness - First hand tips and insights will be shared about the realities of living through a disaster and ways to get through.
Future Living Skills was developed collaboratively by local government in NZ and the Sustainable Living Education Trust. It is supported by Palmerston North City Council.
