2009/2010 Sustainable Management Fund Projects
‘Encouraging sustainable households’ category
| Category |
HOUSEHOLDS |
| Organisation |
2020 Communications Trust |
Region |
National |
| Project title |
eDay 2009 |
| Description |
eDay is a practical community response to raise public awareness of the environmental risks of dumping electronic waste (e-waste) in landfills. eDay also builds local capacity and develops skills in handling e-waste. 40 communities have expressed an interest in participating in eDay 2009 (up from 31 in 2008). |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$200,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
HOUSEHOLDS |
| Organisation |
EcoMatters Environment Trust (EcoMatters) |
Region |
Auckland |
| Project title |
Sustainable Living Adviceline |
| Description |
The purpose of the Sustainable Living Adviceline is to provide practical, impartial and personalised sustainable living advice to residents of the Auckland Region via a freephone service on a range on environmental issues including energy efficiency, water conservation, waste minimisation, organic gardening and sustainable transport. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$119,000 over 3 years |
| Category |
HOUSEHOLDS |
| Organisation |
X-treme Waste Incorporated Society |
Region |
Waikato |
| Project title |
“Para Kore” Waste Minimisation and Sustainability on Marae |
| Description |
The purpose of the project is to promote sustainable Marae through the implementation of ‘Para Kore’ (Zero Waste) initiatives on marae including, but not limited to, reusing, composting, and purchasing / procurement policy and recycling. This project will develop and pilot a methodology for implementing sustainable behaviour specific to Māori communities on marae. The project will be piloted across three marae (ideally a national, rural, and urban marae) within the Waikato region in the first year. This project will include the development of a ‘Para Kore’ brand and awareness campaign which will be implemented at three significant Hui. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$195,714 over 3 years |
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‘Meeting the challenges of climate change’ category
| Category |
CLIMATE CHANGE |
| Organisation |
Dune Restoration Trust of New Zealand |
Region |
National |
| Project title |
Empowering coastal communities to adapt to climate change |
| Description |
The aim is to provide coastal communities with an adaptive approach to help mitigate the effects of sea level rise and increased storms resulting from predicted climatic change. The emphasis is on working with communities to provide them with the skills to assess the state of their dunes and build resilient sustainable coastal communities. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$140,800 over 2 years |
| Category |
CLIMATE CHANGE |
| Organisation |
Sustainable Living Education Trust |
Region |
National |
| Project title |
Sustainable Living 1 - Strengthening community resilience and sustainability |
| Description |
To establish how and which specific skills and attitudes that promote environmental sustainability in households, are also helpful in capacity-building in NZ communities for faster recovery from public emergency or climate stress situations. Flood, heavy snowfall, drought, heat-wave and power cuts, and perhaps epidemics, are becoming more common in a warming climate. Addressing these issues, particularly for urban settlements, will further enhance the existing eight Sustainable Living topics and form the basis of a new two hour stand-alone or course-integrated community education topic. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$10,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
CLIMATE CHANGE |
| Organisation |
Environmental Education for Resource Sustainability Trust (EERST Trust) |
Region |
North Island |
| Project title |
Paper4trees – Remaining North Island Schools |
| Description |
The paper4trees project is based on a simple concept which is easy to manage; schools are rewarded by EERST with a native tree, flax or grass for every three wool sacks (or similar volume) filled with recycled paper and cardboard in a year.
EERST will work with new schools in the North Island and implement the system and will approach schools to join and a Paper4trees Advisor will meet with them to explain the programme. Each room in the school or where required (including offices) will be supplied with a 30 litre recycling bin and needed, wool sacks for the paper and cardboard collection (some schools use wheelie bins). A recording system will be implemented at each school to keep track of the amount of paper and cardboard recycled annually. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$107,600 over 1 year |
| Category |
CLIMATE CHANGE |
| Organisation |
The Tauranga Environment Centre Charitable Trust (Tauranga Environment Centre) |
Region |
Bay of Plenty |
| Project title |
Sustainable Backyards 2010 – Greening of Events |
| Description |
To promote and demonstrate the benefits of greening community events to local authorities; community groups and event managers through the sub region.
Tauranga Environment Centre (TEC) will set a precedent that will encourage community event organisers to work towards greening their events. This will be done by working with the organisers of two events to develop and implement a sustainability plan and zero waste outcome. Alongside this TEC will also work with the steering committee and event manager of a large festival to assist them with the writing of their sustainability plan which will encompass and provide guidelines for the greening of the 2010 festival and all future ‘Coastal BOP’ festivals.
TEC will work with both local councils and the regional council to develop a simple best practice guidelines handbook and publish a web-page which will be available to community event managers. This will foster a culture of green events throughout the Western Bay of Plenty region and result in an advisory and capacity building service based at TEC. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$34,000 over 1 year |
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‘Sustainable land and water management’ category
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Friends of the Otaki River Inc |
Region |
Wellington |
| Project title |
Resources to help upkeep of existing/new plantings |
| Description |
The purpose of the project is to contract extra technical skills and experience for the upkeep of the 20,000 native trees and shrubs that we have already planted to ensure that they are properly nurtured to the stage where they are self sufficient and robust enough to endure any conditions over the long term. The project will also help with the preparation of a further 5,000 trees to be planted, work which is beyond the existing hours available by volunteers. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$90,000 over 3 years |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Fish & Game NZ (Nelson/Marlborough region) |
Region |
Nelson |
| Project title |
Freshwater Biodiversity Advice Service |
| Description |
To provide freshwater biodiversity advice to landowners, Industry, and Local Authority staff, focussing predominantly on implementation of wetland creation and/or restoration projects. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$50,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council |
Region |
Hawke’s Bay |
| Project title |
Dynamic Water User Management Systems for Hawke’s Bay |
| Description |
Surface water on the Ngaruroro and Tukituki river systems is over allocated and low flow bans are becoming more common place. However, there is much potential to better manage this current scenario by the development and implementation of dynamic water user management systems, primarily rostering and rationing, but also exploring the global consent concept. Their successful implementation would create a win-win scenario for the Hawke’s Bay environment, irrigators and the regional economy. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$38,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Nga Uri o te Ngahere Trust |
Region |
Bay of Plenty |
| Project title |
Whakaora te Wainui Ecological Restoration Programme |
| Description |
The restoration and protection of priority areas of high ecological significance in the Wainui catchment, as identified through the 2007/08 SMF funded Kohimarama o te Wainui project. Protection will be achieved through community based pest control activities and will result in the restoration of habitat for rare, threatened and endangered species including whio, weka, tusked weta, hochstetter’s frog, kereru, kokopu, and northern rata. This will become the ecological icon for the catchment, that sets a benchmark for the remainder of the river system to achieve. |
| SMF Funding recommended |
$173,337 over 3 years |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Maraetotara Tree Trust |
Region |
Hawke’s Bay |
| Project title |
The Maraetotara River Restoration Project |
| Description |
Protect and restore vegetated riparian margins to address water quality issues, enhance ecological and recreation values and promote sustainable management within the Maraetotara River catchment. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$21,184 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Waihora Ellesmere Trust |
Region |
Canterbury |
| Project title |
Waihora Ellesmere Catchment Riparian Restoration Programme |
| Description |
This project aims to work systematically and strategically with riparian restoration in the catchment. It will work with existing successes and scale these up to a ‘catchment wide scale’. The ground work is underway to prioritize catchments for riparian restoration and establish baseline GIS-linked data. The funding sought from SMF will enable 50,000 indigenous plants (trees, shrubs, grasses) to be planted (including site preparation and maintenance) over a one year period along waterways in the catchment. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$200,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
East Taranaki Environment Trust |
Region |
Taranaki |
| Project title |
Saving kiwi in Taranaki |
| Description |
The project is a community initiative, involving the implementation of a suite of pest and advocacy measures to promote sustainability in the Pouiatoa catchment. The project involves pest control focusing on protecting a large population of kiwi, which in turn, promotes ‘buy-in’ from local land occupiers to adopt wider land sustainable measures. Along with pest control, there will be ongoing and extensive liaison and advocacy with local land owners to raise awareness and encourage the maintenance and enhancement of native vegetation on land very susceptible to accelerated erosion. This will protect the soil resource and water quality in the Urenui River headwaters and minor subcatchments of the Waitara River. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$267,900 over 3 years |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
The Trees for Survival Trust Inc (TFS) |
Region |
National |
| Project title |
The Trees for Survival expansion project |
| Description |
The Trees for Survival expansion project will allow the TFS programme to be more accessible to schools throughout New Zealand. This year it will focus on the Auckland, Taranaki and Gisborne regions and the following year the Northland, Tasman and Marlborough regions. The project aims to secure local authority support in regions where there is an established interest from schools. Once the extent of local authority support is established TFS will work towards ensuring that TFS schools are sufficiently resourced to effectively implement the programme. This phase of the project (Phase 2) follows on from Phase 1 for which SMF funding was allocated in 2008-09.
SMF funding will allow TFS management to facilitate agreements with local authorities. The establishment of support networks for resourcing the schools will then be able to be facilitated. This will require arranging supporting organisations from the community, providing guidance, making seedlings and other materials available and when possible the appointment of a local TFS Field Officer. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$31,695 over 2 years |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Shakespear Open Sanctuary Society Incorporated (SOSSI) |
Region |
Auckland |
| Project title |
Shakespear Open Sanctuary |
| Description |
Shakespear Open Sanctuary will be developed to enhance the experience and visitation of this well used and valued regional park. This project is a community/council partnership and will work towards integrated sustainable land use and facilitate biodiversity recovery and restoration. Our operational plan will guide conservation activity for remnant wildlife and reintroduction of absent flora and fauna. A working farm will continue but marginal and riparian areas will be retired and re-vegetated using locally sourced and grown plants by the community.
Our aim is that this will be New Zealand’s most accessible wildlife sanctuary and thus will relieve the pressure on other island sanctuaries such as Tiritiri Matangi Island and Little Barrier Island. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$200,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Friends of Oakley (Te Auauaga) Creek |
Region |
Auckland |
| Project title |
Oakley Creek – Te Auaunga Restoration Project |
| Description |
This projects aims to progress the development and restoration of Oakley Creek as a sustainable waterway feature in the urban fabric of Auckland City. This will involve identifying and prioritising opportunities, on-site planning, management and implementation in partnership with the community and key stakeholders. Working to a professional management plan the project will include planting, plant releasing, monitoring and pest control. Oakley Creek will be established as a place of major ecological, social and cultural value |
| SMF funding recommended |
$75,423 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
NZ Landcare Trust |
Region |
Bay of Plenty/Waikato |
| Project title |
Community Integrated Catchment Management - Tauranga Harbour and Waihou River |
| Description |
The project will work in partnership with landowners, the community and resource management agencies in the Tauranga Harbour (Bay of Plenty) and Waihou River (Waikato) catchments along the Kaimai-Mamaku Ranges. The project will enhance landowner understanding of sustainable land management and biodiversity enhancement practices through Landcare Group formation and support, targeted workshops and supporting resource materials (e.g. newsletters, web pages). |
| SMF funding recommended |
$225,000 over 3 years |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Te Pokapu Taiki Taiao O Te Tai Tokerau Trust (Far North Environment Centre) |
Region |
Northland |
| Project title |
Doubtless Bay Community Care for our Catchment programme |
| Description |
The project is an Integrated Catchment Management programme to bring communities in Doubtless Bay together to achieve a common sustainable land and water management goal. Utilising a Catchment Coordinator the project will facilitate wider community engagement, and promote sustainable land and water use in the catchment through implementing community led monitoring, knowledge sharing and research. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$128,048 over 3 years |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
EcoMatters Environment Trust (EcoMatters) |
Region |
Auckland |
| Project title |
Project Twin Streams Extension |
| Description |
To engage with property owners and the community in Waitakere City to restore the streams through private properties. This will be done by co-ordinating residents and community volunteers to remove weeds on stream and margins and replanting with eco-sourced native plants. The project will assist to restore the stream environment, reduce erosion and promote biodiversity and sustainability. It will enhance the value of streams to landowners and the community. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$200,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Te Runanga o Ngati Hine Trust |
Region |
Northland |
| Project title |
Coastal Cultural Health Index and Kaitiaki Training |
| Description |
To develop a coastal Cultural Health Index (CHI) for use by the kaitiaki of the Ngati Hine rohe and conduct training in the same. CHI will have generic application for kaitiaki o te Taitokerau. This project (part of a wider cultural environmental monitoring programme being implemented by Te Runanga o Ngati Hine) will build on the proven models developed by Dr Gail Tipa for CHI for freshwater monitoring in Te Waipounamu. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$50,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Hokianga Health Enterprise Trust (Hauora Hokianga) |
Region |
Northland |
| Project title |
Te Riu o Hokianga Roadmap |
| Description |
To widely disseminate a Hokianga grown kaupapa Māori process (a ‘roadmap’) for improving marae onsite wastewater systems to rūnanga, interested hapū, district councils and engineering consulting firms in wider Northland. The ‘roadmap’ highlights onsite hapū specific wastewater issues, provides advice for navigating the complexities of design and consenting processes, and provides practical assistance to regional and district councils and consulting engineers about relevant cultural issues. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$48,247 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
NZ Landcare Trust |
Region |
Waikato |
| Project title |
Head waters to harbour - hooked on native fish! |
| Description |
To engage, inspire and educate a broad audience including local landowners, urban residents, iwi and local school children about native fish and their habitats by focusing on sustainable land management at a catchment level, through the production of resources and stream focused workshops to improve fish habitat. The importance of protecting and restoring native fish habitat will be ‘the hook’ to encourage more sustainable land management practices in rural and urban catchments. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$60,000 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Kapiti Coast District Council |
Region |
Wellington |
| Project title |
Kapiti Coast Ecological Restoration Support Project |
| Description |
The Kapiti Coast Ecological Restoration Project will provide practical help to community environmental care groups through the employment of a field officer, and the establishment of a seed bank for eco-sourcing. The aim is to ensure that the groups’ efforts do not fail or falter through the lack of practical help, or the use of the wrong methods. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$86,085 over 3 years |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust |
Region |
Otago |
| Project title |
Waterfall Creek Re-vegetation Project |
| Description |
To restore the native bush of the Waterfall Creek outlet which borders the access point to the Millennium Track, Wanaka’s most popular walk-way and a well used recreational area on the shore of Lake Wanaka.
The project aims to restore, protect and enhance the indigenous flora and fauna along the Waterfall Creek outlet through the eradication of pests and the re-vegetation of the area with eco-sourced (local) native plants. This will be achieved through education/work days involving the Te Kākano nursery, local community, schools and visitors to the area. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$13,100 over 1 year |
| Category |
LAND/WATER |
| Organisation |
Uretara Estuary Managers Inc |
Region |
Bay of Plenty |
| Project title |
Uretara Catchment Restoration by community action – a model for Tauranga Moana |
| Description |
This project aims to improve catchment and estuary health through retirement and planting of two degraded tributaries of the Uretara catchment. Through working with landowners, schools and local authorities the project will reduce sediment loads, improve water quality and enhance instream habitat. Adverse effects of reduced water flows due to high water take in the upper and mid-catchment will be minimised through stream shading and habitat enhancement. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$158,410 over 3 years |
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‘Supporting sustainable business practices’ category
| Category |
BUSINESS |
| Organisation |
Nelson Regional Economic Development Agency |
Region |
Nelson |
| Project title |
Nelson-Tasman Sustainable Business Advisor |
| Description |
To provide practical support for businesses to measure and reduce energy (electricity and transport fuel) and water use, and waste. This will lead to greenhouse gas reductions and other environmental benefits, and improve the economic sustainability of the region. Businesses will be able to make informed choices about how to become more sustainable. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$186,000 over 3 years |
| Category |
BUSINESS |
| Organisation |
Otago Polytechnic |
Region |
Otago |
| Project title |
Starting a Sustainable Business |
| Description |
To coordinate existing local resources and develop a course that is freely available to students, graduates and members of the public who wish to learn how to plan for business that is ecologically, economically and socially sustainable. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$28,250 over 1 year |
| Category |
BUSINESS |
| Organisation |
Waikato Regional Council (Environment Waikato) |
Region |
Waikato |
| Project title |
Carbon $ave: A resource efficiency programme for Waikato SME’s |
| Description |
This project seeks to facilitate more resource efficient business practices amongst a group of SMEs in the Waikato and, more broadly, to raise awareness of the need to engage in more sustainable business practices. In particular, businesses will be encouraged to take responsibility for their carbon emissions and waste, and will be provided with tools and expertise to make changes in these areas. Given the current economic climate, the emphasis will be on providing solutions which also infer cost savings. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$34,900 over 1 year |
| Category |
BUSINESS |
| Organisation |
Envirostate Limited |
Region |
National |
| Project title |
NZ shopping centre sustainability project |
| Description |
The aim of this project is to improve the environmental performance of 10 shopping malls (involving in excess of 1000 individual retail stores) throughout New Zealand by identifying opportunities for improvement.
Each mall will have specific action plans for addressing opportunities and Envirostate will share examples of best practice and provide support for the implementation of sustainability initiatives. Management and retail staff will be educated in these sustainability initiatives, monitor performance changes and report on results. In addition this project will raise public awareness of sustainability through providing education strategies that malls and retail outlets can employ. |
| SMF funding recommended |
$140,000 over 3 years |
| Category
|
BUSINESS |
| Organisation
|
Community Business and Environment Centre Co-operative Society Limited (CBEC) |
Region |
National |
| Project title
|
Closing the PET Loop in New Zealand |
| Description
|
Investigate and evaluate the feasibility of manufacturing building insulation products in New Zealand from high quality recovered PET from New Zealand recovery systems. Thereby establishing a long term quality sustainable local market for recovered PET. |
| SMF funding recommended
|
$48,000 over 1 year |
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Last updated: 3 August 2009
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