Invercargill Environment Centre Green Lunch Fundraiser 

Monday 8 September, 12 noon - 1:30pm, St Johns Church Hall

Guest Speaker - Peter Wilson, Transition Towns

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“Green lunch”- now what is that I hear you ask?

Tying in with the theme of ‘Tutakitia te iwi kainga, meet the locals’, this unique ‘green lunch’ event will start Conservation week off in the desired spirit on Monday 8 September. 

The Environment Centre is doing this fund raiser to promote ‘Keep NZ Beautiful- Clean up NZ Week’ as a way of supporting the week of activities happening around Southland from 7 to 14 September, which rely on local initiatives to make a difference. 

The ‘green lunch’ shows one way to keep a healthy and clean environment by not creating waste, eating scrummy food, not using plastic and recycling food scraps to pigs or worm farms. China plates and cups will be the order of the day along with no gladwrap. Home grown, locally produced food, preferably organic, is on the menu so saving on food miles. Fair Trade coffee and tea and organic milk will highlight other justice issues.

 With a midday start and an official welcome at 12.30pm, this will be  followed by Peter Wilson from Invercargill as guest speaker talking about the Transition Towns concept. This is a movement with local communities taking initiatives to respond to peak oil and climate change issues, making their own decisions around what they see as an appropriate response at a grass roots’ level.

The lunch event will finish about 1.30pm so workers can come in their lunch hour, anywhere in between.

The venue is St Johns Anglican Church Hall on Tay Street, opposite Pak 'n Save. 

Tickets are $10 each and bookings and payment can be made by Thursday 4 September( for catering purposes)  at the Invercargill Environment Centre, SIT Arcade, 46 Esk St, 218 4404 or email iec@paradise.net.nz.