Our Stories

Spend your day at one of our many water-themed events.  Whether it’s helping restore it, reduce your use of it, or just appreciating it, you will find great water events… Read More

Come and find out how to reduce or reuse the waste in your everyday life.  Help make today and tomorrow waste-free with one of these great events at EcoWest Festival.… Read More

The early bird may catch the worm, but the Night Owl can catch some great events!  Do you live for the night life?  Stay up with us and explore the… Read More

Katrina completed the CO.STARTERS for Causes programme at EcoMatters in October 2017. This is Katrina’s story. Hi, I’m Katrina Wolff and I’m the founder of Blue Borage. Blue Borage is a… Read More

It’s our pleasure to share with you EcoMatters’ second annual report! Within these pages, we try to tell the story of some of the ways our community came together to do… Read More

We’re thrilled to announce that EcoMatters has been chosen as an ‘All at Once’ non-profit partner in Jack Johnson’s Summer Tour! The legendary musician is paving the way in green… Read More

Attending a workshop with Donna Kerridge (Waikato Tainui) is much more than an introduction to the medicinal values of our native bush. Rather it is an insight into a whole… Read More

Hi, my name is Kristy Lorson and I’m the founder of EarthSavvy. Most of us have heard about the global plastic crisis. 8 million tonnes of plastic ends up in… Read More

Now that the cold weather is well and truly here, we hope you’re all keeping warm inside! Many of us Kiwis suffer from living in cold, damp houses. Not only… Read More

EcoMatters’ community bike hub has been up and running for a couple of months since our big launch on EcoDay on 9 April. Whau Local Board Chair, Tracy Mulholland, EcoMatters… Read More