3.2.3b. Hunter Lovins' Forums in NZ - Project Details:
Go to the website www.kaitiakitanga.net/hunterlovins for details of her NZ tour.
See also "Re-designing our Future" youth forums with Michael Braungart (Cradle to Cradle design) and Alex Steffen
Description:
 Hatata helps round up
As a result of our kaitiakitanga network team attending the Sustainable
Resources Conference in Boulder 2004, we met Hunter Lovins of Natural
Capitalism Solutions Inc and invited her to visit us to find out more
about the concept of Kaitiakitanga when next she visited New Zealand .
We were thrilled to be able to host a special retreat
for her on Murumurunga Marae at Te Whaiti as part of a series of seminars
"Growing a well future" that
a team of volunteers and supportive organisations are helping run in Dunedin,
Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland. This innovative community
dialogue is being driven using a Tipu
Ake ki te Ora collaborative approach.
We were pleased to be able to help coordinate this national programme and publish DVDs. Videoclips of the forums are available for downloading off from the Hunter Lovins website.
Thank you Hunter for what you shared with our community
 
Hunter presents at our school, Te Kura Toitu o Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi to an attentive audience that included our friends from our network in Ruatorea and elsewhere.
  
Visit to Whirinaki forest, where Rui explains about nature and Timoti talks about bush medicine
  
SMART COMMUNITY Forum in Hamilton - featured friends from our network in Whaingaroa ( Raglan)
  
  
SMART EVIRONMENT Forum Auckland - plus our absent environmentalists from Hokianga Harbourcare
  
SMART AGRICULTURE Forum Hamilton
  
  
SMART CITIES Forum Auckland with local youth representatives from each city authority and others
  
  
SMART BUSINES Forum, Auckland - Youth and role model business panelists join with Hunter
  
  
SMART ECONOMY Forum, Wellington - mixed group of student, artist, activist, and city authorities
  
  
A SMART LEARNING COUNTRY, Wellington. The final session had with Hunter a panel including
members from other
forums around the
country representing business,
farming, science, student
(Engineering) and community / Maori perspectives.
Mailbu presented Hunter with a copy of "Song of Waitaha" to thank her on behalf all the people of
Aotearoa for what she shared with us
Outcomes expected:
- Kaitiakitanga as a concept and its responsibility will become part
of international sustainability thinking
- Kaitiakitanga concepts will become better understood and applied by
many more New Zealanders
- We will better understand sustainable development and the value of
the Natural Capital (Taonga) of our place.
- We will have much more to share about how Tipu Ake can be applied
in a national programme.
Start Date: Work on this really commenced after a phone
call to the US on 29th March 2006
Expected Completion: The seminar series runs from 2-12 July 2006
see program outline
Budget: We are only responsible for the retreat budget
- we are looking for funding to cover this, including the cost of getting
invited guests to join us for the event.
Nominal Project Leader: Peter Goldsbury is representing
us on the team planning the national seminar series. Stephen Self is the
contact person at Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc.
Project Team: We will have a small team looking after
all local arrangements.
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| 2002-3 |
Our friend Andree Mathieu worked with Hunter Lovins translating
her work into French |
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| 2004 |
Our Kaitiakitanga / Tipu Ake team met her at the Sustainable Resources
Conference, USA |
PG |
| 10/2/06 |
Received notification that Hunter was to visit NZ and offered to
host her on our marae for the weekend |
PG |
| 30/3/06 |
Received a response"Hunter is VERY interested in meeting the
folks at Te Whaiti and learn about their concept of Kaitiakitanga
and she asked that I make this the meeting of central importance to
our visit to New Zealand" Peter Goldsbury offered to help them
coordinate things for the remainder of the NZ programme. He found
Jo Knight of the Zero Waste NZ
Trust was the only person on their contact list able to pursue
this, because of the high cost involved. Jo has made enquiries with
the NZ Business Council for Sustainable
Development and others. Peter offered to gather together a national
schedule and try to get some energy behind the visit and thus attract
funding. |
PG |
| 31/03/06 |
A draft schedule was agreed with Stephen Self (USA) on 31 March
and sent to possible volunteers in each main centre, prior to meeting
many people in Wellington on 5th March. Here Glenda Lewis of the Royal
Society of NZ recommended we extend to Dunedin to incorporate
the International Festival of Science being run there that week. We
contacted Universities in each place re them providing venues to host
the events.( It is during school holidays) |
PG |
| 7/04/06 |
Revised programme and outline philosophy put together after a
meeting with Jo Knight (ZeroWaste) and Ray Skinner of the ICANZ
Sustainability Group. Agreed on first cut focus for each seminar
and will ask Hunter to put a wholistic "Zero Waste" theme
(starting from designing it out and including energy pollution reduction
etc) for every session.
The intention is to involve young people (on discussion panel and
making up approx half the participants on each seminar) so we contacted
Kristen Price of Enviroschools
to link them in at all centres. Also we will find some connections
with school enterprise development projects to gather more innovative
youth. Found Jose Keelan at AUT who operates the Growing
Young Maori Entrepreneurs site and network so will pursue that
too. Initiated an enquiry with the Project
Management Institute NZ Chapter to find some volunteers to be
"node coordinators" in each centre, but regretably they were not able to provide this support. Also looked for volunteers
and organisations to help us to distribute the seminars nationally
via DVD, video conferencing, television links or similar. |
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| 2-12 /7 |
Seminars run in all centres as per programme www.kaitiakitanga.net/hunterlovins except Dunedin which was cancelled because of Hunters plane failure delays. Each session attracted around 100 people. The performance of our youth panel members was impressive.
Thanks to the many volunteers in each location that made this a success.
The weekend retreat at Te Whaiti was attended by a range of people from around the country and internationally. It included a session at Te Kura Toitu o Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi, discussing their journey, a presentation by Hunter which was greatly appreciated, and some valuable time in the Whirinaki Forest.
Thanks to our international friends on the Tipu Ake Network in North America for helping cover the cost of the Te Whaiti Retreat. |
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| Aug 06 |
All sessions were captured on video and DVDs for each session (total 8) have been given to major City Libraries and elsewhere. |
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| Oct 06 |
Two compressed DVDs produced covering the Hunter tour. Copies of these, together with two videos provided by the Youth Voice team www.thelongsong.com from the Digital Earth - Summit on Sustainability www.digitalearth.org.nz in August, have been given as a koha to around 30 Government and other agencies associated with Sustainable Development.
The Hunter Lovins Forums are also downloadable as videoclips from the www.natcapsolutions.org website, so can be accessed anywhere in the world. |
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