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Learning From not About the Ocean Mena kei te hauora te moana ka pera ano te hauora o te iwi.If the Ocean is healthy so too will the people be healthy. Our next talk will be to Mt Maunganui Underwater Club on Thursday 3rd June. It is one of the largest and oldest dive clubsContinue reading “An Ocean Life!”

We were honoured to be guests of the Protect Our Gulf campaign last week at a fundraising dinner. Hosted by Te Motu vineyard on Waiheke Island, we dined on absolutely delicious kai with loyal supporters of the campaign, who are making huge efforts to stop Ports of Auckland dredging in the Hauraki Gulf and thenContinue reading “Protect Our Gulf”

Earth is our home, a complex living being of interdependent relationships, and is 4.6 billion years old! As we revolve around the sun at 100,000 km/hr, participants enter the liminal space of Deep Time, walking 4.6kms through 4.6 billion years of Earth history. We were fortunate to run the Deep Time Walk last month duringContinue reading “Deep Time Walk”

We are now into our 4th year with Yr 6 at Ngunguru School monitoring the health of the Red Rocks Reef in the Ngunguru Estuary using our Hauora Moana monitoring programme. Thank you for such a great opportunity to work with these kids and their inspiring teachers! Unfortunately the health of the reef leaves alotContinue reading “Ngunguru School and ‘their’ Reef”

1 Sentientist Conversations with Jamie Woodhouse : 2 Accidental Gods podcast with Manda Scott : The Ocean is Alive: Ocean-shaman Glenn Edney speaks of the living waters of the Earth “What if the Ocean were a living thing, in the way that the earth breathes as Gaia? The Maori say that if the Ocean isContinue reading ““The Ocean is Alive” 2 interviews …”

EcoSolutions once again gathered a team of dedicated and great fun volunteers to run their waste stations on the Waitangi Treaty Grounds for Waitangi Day 2021. It was a perfectly beautiful day of sunshine and heat with the waters of Te Moananui a Kiwa lapping their song to the tune of a sea breeze. TheContinue reading “WAITANGI DAY, 6th February 2021”

Ngunguru Gala kindly offered us a free stall at their annual gala, so we were able to display the rubbish collections from the SeaBin. There was a reasonable amount of interest and we even sold 2 books! Our SeaBin sorting team for 2020 has been awesome! The Interact Club at Huanui College, Glenbervie, is ourContinue reading “Ngunguru Gala Day – 27 December 2020”

Here is a link to a PDF of the Power Point presentation “We Are Water: Beyond Water as Resource”. We really enjoyed our talk at Whangarei public Library, especially the lively and insightful Q&A session at the end. . Glenn is busy editing the video presentation and we will post it as soon as he’sContinue reading “We Are Water”

Finally our “We are Water” talk is happening! In association with Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai and the Whangarei Library. Join us on a water journey that spans the Universe and enfolds the entire evolutionary story of our Living Earth! Glenn discusses the fundamental role water plays in our lives, indeed in our veryContinue reading “We are Water – Beyond Water as a Resource”