Festival for the Future takes place in Auckland from Friday. Photo / Mark Tantrum
Festival for the Future takes place in Auckland from Friday. Photo / Mark Tantrum
Want to meet new people, apply for a funding boost - or just enjoy the spectacle of electric motorbikes racing around corners?
Be part of the future
Festival for the Future, the annual three-day conference celebrating youth-led Kiwi innovation and aimed at illuminating a pathway toward a sustainable future, is running for the first time in Auckland, at AUT from September 5-7.
Speakers include; Nikki Kaye (Minister for Youth Development); festival founder Guy Ryan; Icehouse CEO Andy Ryan; Power by Proxi founder Fady Mishriki, coastal champion Taylor Finderup, the B-Institute's Minnie Baragwanath and Rock the Vote's Laura O'Connell Rapira - among many others.
Also this weekend, Auckland organic waste collection company We Compost is running a compost-for-currency festival.
Sign up, collect organic food scraps, put them into an official We Compost bag, and swap your bag of scraps for treats at over 35 businesses including Kokako, Little Bird, Cosset, Z Energy, Neat Meat and Hair Organics.
Bags can be picked up - and redeemed - at any participating business.
NZ's first ever day of electric motorsport will take place at Mike Pero Motorsport Park, Rapuna, Christchurch on November 30.
The event, called EVolocity, will feature various electric racing classes, including go-karts, motorbikes, drag races, an efficiency rally, a high school competition and a dragon's den for innovators.
The event is being organised by APEV (the Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles) - a non-profit incorporated society focused on promoting the environmental and economic advantages of electric transport in NZ.
An upcoming Eco Festival on Waiheke Island - called The Good Life - will feature a series of environmentally focused events being run over a two-week period from September 26 to October 12.
The Good Life will be packed full of experiences, ideas and inspiration and hosted by innovative locals, community groups, businesses, sustainability experts and creative entrepreneurs who embrace eco ideas through their life and work.
Included in the festival is the Eco Home & Lifestyle show and the always popular Tread Lightly Home Tours.
Kiwi innovators from across the country could win a share of $90,000 to develop fresh ideas that benefit conservation, in a new national awards scheme.
The first-ever WWF-New Zealand Conservation Innovation Awards seeks to showcase novel and effective ways to support communities to protect and restore our unique biodiversity. First prize in each of three categories - product, project and research - is a $25,000 grant, with three runner-up grants of $5000 each.
