Seminars & Workshops

Clean, green New Zealand is where the organic and environment industry meet. With the rise of the ethical consumer, more people are growing socially responsible, the consumer wants to know more about green living products and all things organic.

 

 

	12th May Saturday
TIME	DEMO -LYELL HALL	LYELL HALL	RUTHERFORD	TASMAN HALL
11.00 am		The Auckland Solar Pilot. Can you afford solar? Yes – Now you can! Dana Darwin	11.15 am Auckland Plan as a foundation stone for Auckland’s transformation to a highly energy resilient, low carbon city through a focus on green living Mayor Len Brown
12.00 noon	Body Ecology Talk and Food Demo Michelle K La Chante	Eco design for your home: Eliminating downlights and other heat losses Eion Scott and Fred Braxton	12.15 pm The Food Bill – Good or bad? Steffan Browning
12.30 pm		Eco design for your home: Retrofitting window insulation Eion Scott and Fred Braxton
1.00 pm		New Zealand’s First Zero Energy House Shay Brazier
2.00 pm	Mozzarella in 40 seconds, haloumi from milk to tasting in 10 – 12 minutes Neil Willman	Saving a community from odours Neville Burt	Growing your green business Simon Fawkes	Seasonal Eating and Rhubarb Eton Mess and home-made herb mayonnaise Laura Faire
3.00 pm	Superfoods Demo Make – Raw Chocolate Super Fudge Rene Archner	Worm farming Colin McPike	Youth Forum – Bringing climate solutions to life Lee Barry	Setting up & maintaining an Urban Biodynamic Community or Home Garden Christine Monginie
4.00 pm	Mozzarella in 40 seconds, haloumi from milk to tasting in 10 – 12 minutes Neil Willman	Living Roof Renee Davis		Raw Food for weight loss that tastes great Christine Smith
5.15 pm			Green Drinks Green Living Network

 

	13th May Sunday
TIME	DEMO – LYELL HALL	LYELL HALL	TASMAN HALL
11.00 am		Towards Zero Energy Architecture Duncan Firth	Sustainable health..Is your lifestyle sustainable? Tamara Hume
12.00 noon	Body ecology talk and food demo Michelle K La Chante	New Zealand’s First Zero Energy House Shay Brazier	The Green Warrior Goddess – How to establish a natural or green business Megan Douglas
1.00 pm		The Auckland Solar Pilot. Can you afford solar? Yes – Now you can! Dana Darwin	Genetically engineered food is here – why organic food is so important Steffan Browning
2.00 pm	Mozzarella in 40 seconds, haloumi from milk to tasting in 10 – 12 minutes Neil Willman	Eco design for your home: Eliminating downlights and other heat losses Eion Scott and Fred Braxton	Conventional composting Tabitha Becroft
2.30 pm		Eco design for your home: Retrofitting window insulation Eion Scott and Fred Braxton
3.00 pm	Healthy Food Demo – Raw pie and a delicious smoothie Rene Archner	Green Buildings (concepts and environmental certification for your home) Alex Reiche	Designing and Building Sustainable Landscapes Carl Pickens
4.00 pm	Mozzarella in 40 seconds, haloumi from milk to tasting in 10 – 12 minutes Neil Willman	Saving a community from odours Neville Burt	Giving for Profit Clare Emily Williamson

 

OPENING OF THE EXPO – Speech by the Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown at 11.15am
The Auckland Plan as the foundation stone for Auckland’s transformation to a highly energy resilient, low carbon city through a focus on green living.
All are invited

YOUTH FORUM 3pm Saturday, 12th May 2012 – All are invited
Bringing Climate Solutions to Life – powered by Pecha Kucha
Following the fast paced Pecha Kucha presentation format, a host of innovative young Aucklanders will have just a few minutes each to showcase their solution to the climate change crisis. Audience members will have the chance to share their own ideas on the spot before a frenzied finale to vote for the winning idea. Come along and be inspired by ideas to protect our planet from the biggest threat we face today. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE.

Presented in Association with WWF – New Zealand and friends
Co-ordinated by Lee Barry with assistance from youth leader Sophie Moore.

Business Seminars
Growing your green business
Simon Fawkes is a “reformed engineer,” linguist and B2B marketing specialist. He helps exporters in the hi-tech and specialised manufacturing sectors develop and execute strategies to grow faster in niche export markets.

The Green Warrior Goddess – Megan Douglas
How to establish a natural and green business within a budget with several opportunities and options
There are two big trends in business right now: the rise in women’s entrepreneurship and the rise of sustainable businesses. Here is a talk on how to shape your lifestyle and business into a form that aligns with your vision and values. Megan will cover several different aspects in business and how to get your ideas and business formulated for results.
Megan Douglas is the founder of World Organic,
Organic Skin Care Company, Megan is also a Naturopath and Herbalist.

Giving for Profit

Clare Emily Williamson runs Accountability Now, a social enterprise that supports business leaders to find the best area of focus for their CSR activities and create shared value through effective partnerships with the non-profit organizations. Clare is a Corporate Responsibility Strategist and Partnership Facilitator.

ECOBUILD – GREENBUILD SEMINARS
Can you afford solar? YES – Now you can!
New Solar initiative
Learn about:

• How you can afford solar water heating for your home
• High quality and performance system packages
• Easy compliance and installation service
• Switch to Solar today – Start saving tomorrow
• Never been easier…..

Dana Darwin is Solar Group’s commercial SWH Division & Project Manager of the Auckland Solar Pilot
Eco design for your home: eliminating down lights and other heat losses
Eco design for your home: retrofitting window insulation

Eion Scott and Fred Braxton are the Eco Advisors of Auckland Council. They provide a free service.
The Eco design advisor is a specialist providing energy, water and material related advice on home building projects, to ensure better use is made of resources. This is a free face-to-face service on sustainable building.
Towards Zero Energy Architecture – Case study, TE KAUWHATA HOUSE, Waikato, Awarded, First place equal in the 2010 Residential Concrete Sustainability awards sponsored by CCANZ
Duncan Firth, Architect and founder of Solarei Limited

New Zealand’s First Zero Energy House
Shay Brazier is Head of Innovation and Design for Solar City, North and South Island.

Green Building (concepts and environmental certification for your home)
Alex Reiche, founder of EnviroSpec, will help you achieve the best in terms of environmental performance and certification for your home and will cover concepts of green building, products/materials, the Homestar rating system and tips to help you achieve the highest standards.

Composting and Waste Management
‘Saving a Community from Odours’
(micro-organisms save giant meat plant from irate neighbours)
Get a free sample of these wonder creatures
How microbial products can solve odour and other issues in a number of different situations and includes food waste in the home and community.
Presented by Neville Burt – Managing Director, ZingBokashi New Zealand

Genetically engineered food is here. Why organic food is so important.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has permitted more than 70 genetically engineered (GE) food lines to be used in our food supply. The various GE food lines are either, canola, cotton, corn, rice, alfalfa, potato, or soy, and although some are not actually being used yet, many are in processed foods or in feed for animals that are either eaten or produce eggs and milk for us.
This is of concern because research has shown that toxins from GE foods can move through the gut lining and into the human, including foetal, blood supply. Some farmers have also reported reproductive failure in animals fed GE food, and focused animal GE feeding studies have shown liver and kidney damage. Herbicides used on GE herbicide resistant crops have been shown to cause deformities and authorities have allowed farmers higher residue tolerances in their crop to allow the heavy herbicide use.
The talk will discuss the foods likely to be contaminated in New Zealand and what the options are for consumers.

The Food Bill: Good or Bad?

The Food Bill currently before Parliament is meant to take a more flexible approach to food safety, than the previous Food Act, based on the level of risk a food poses. However many people have been concerned that as the Bill is drafted, they may be restricted from seed saving and food sharing or swapping. Some are concerned that small growers will be unnecessarily regulated and international food regulations will be forced on New Zealand’s domestic food producers. Genetic modification has been removed from the Food Bill as something that should be considered in terms of food safety regulations, and the Food Bill allows the food safety Minister to introduce international agreements about food, such as may be included in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPPA) without a Parliamentary process. Hear what is to be safeguarded, what the bureaucracy may mean for small producers, and what needs to change in the Food Bill.

Steffan Browning MP | Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Spokesperson for Agriculture, Organics, Fisheries, Forestry, Biosecurity & Customs, GE, Security & Intelligence

HEALTHY LIVING, WELLBEING AND LIFESTYLE SEMINARS AND DEMOS

Sustainable health. Is your lifestyle sustainable? Or perhaps is your lifestyle, impacting your health and well being?

Tamara Hume (BChiro, BSC HuNt) is a chiropractor and nutritionist. Together with her husband, she owns Vital Solutions Group, a business that inspires and empowers the clients and families they see to optimise their well being and gain health through natural chiropractic care, nutrition and exercise.

Body Ecology talk (1) and demo
Super foods talk (2) and demo

Michele K La Chante, Donna Gates trained, Certified Body Ecology Practitioner. Michelle is also a Certified Living Foods Lifestyle Educator and Practitioner.

Raw food for weight loss that tastes great. Since weight loss is the biggest thing on most women’s (and a lot of men’s) minds, it makes sense to introduce raw food via an avenue they want to hear about. Demos on how to prepare everyday raw food and sampling is included.

Christine Smith is the director of Go More Raw and is very passionate about people adding at least some raw food to their diet to achieve health benefits. She writes for The Green Living Magazine.

Lifestyle Chefs
Rene will show us how to make a raw food pie and a delicious green smoothie that will keep you glowing in health.
Rene Archer is a Health Chef for raw food with over a decade of rich experience with raw food lifestyle, preparation and has taught worldwide. He emphasises enhanced physical performance, energy and joy in his talks and demos.

Cheese School in Action
Mozzarella made in 40 seconds
Making halloumi from milk to tasting in 10 – 12 minutes
Take audience questions on storage of cheese, wine and cheese matching and more
Cheese Master Neil Willman, is the director and Principal of New Zealand Cheese School, is a cheese educator and a consultant for Australia and New Zealand cheese industries with approximately 30 cheese courses per year.
Opportunity to buy books written by Neil Willman – Home Cheese making and
The Guide to making your own.

GARDENING AND LANDSCAPING
Setting up and maintaining an urban biodynamic community or home garden
Christine Moginie is the owner/creator of Vortex Creative Wellbeing Centre Biodynamic Community Garden which she established 2 years ago at 70 Michaels Ave in Ellerslie. Christine has over 20 years experience in Biodynamic gardening in Australia and New Zealand, and has started a cause to turn vacant land, verges and privately owned land into thriving Organic/Biodynamic Community Gardens. Christine will talk about how to use the BD Preparations, herbal “teas”, and BD Compost to create your own living soil and bring biodiversity into sterile and unused urban areas.

Fellow BD practitioner Sandy Wendt will talk about worm farms, chooks and bees in the home garden.

Designing and Building Sustainable Landscapes

Carl will discuss the use of sustainably sourced materials in an urban context, and show examples of eco-friendly practices in small to medium sized landscapes. He will discuss how he uses patterns found in nature as a source of inspiration, and how he integrates organic and permaculture principles into the work he does.

Carl Pickens is a Landscape Architect with a background in Organic Horticulture.  He has been designing (and sometimes building) gardens across NZ for over 10 years.  He has recently won Gold and Silver Distinction awards for his Contemporary Sustainable Gardens at the 2009 and 2010 Ellerslie International Flower Shows.