Christmas shoppers are being encouraged to think about Mother Nature as they prepare for the festive season.
Tomorrowthe EnviroHub would be hosting a workshop at the Rotorua Youth Centre garden, teaching furoshiki - sustainable gift wrapping, how to re-pot plants as gifts and hot-composting.
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Karen Shaw, the EnviroHub Rotorua co-ordinator, said it was important to teach the community how to be sustainable during Christmas.
''It's a very consumer sort of time of year, there's lots of extra packaging that gets bought" and lots of materialistic gifts.