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Monday 17th Sept, 7pm Evison Lounge (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Natural History film screenings on Hectors dolphins…
Wednesday 19th September – Bottle buy-back
Got beverage containers, want cash? Get paid to recycle! OUSA is buying back your beverage containers including milk bottles, aluminium cans, glass bottles, plastic sipper bottles and 2 litre plastic containers – you can get 10c for every container returned! Limit 100 per person… Depots will be set up on campus from 10 – 3pm outside OUSA on the Union Lawn and at the end of Castle St.
Start saving empties now…. This is a chance to show an incentive to recycle and clean up the streets of Dunedin and showing support for this type of Container Deposit Levy legislation in New Zealand. This one action could become a reality in the future!
Thursday 20th September @ Backstage 7:30pm – Local Music for Local Issues
The best of local bands accompanied by amazing organic goodies, come join the hot line up with Vibrasics, Julian Temple band, Biff Merchants, The Alan Ibell band, Monica Yeoman, Sneaky Sound Underground and Niamh O Flynn! Fundraising to STOP HOLCIM from building a cement manufacturing plant in Oamaru. Free Organic Nibbles from Taste Nature and Tangente and organic wine from Castle Macadam Wines. $5 at the door.
Proceeds to the Waiareka Valley Preservation Society
Friday 21 September – Maui and Hector’s dolphin National Day of Action
All around NZ, uni campuses are hosting a day to call for a ban on set nets. There are only 111 Maui dolphins left and now is basically the last chance to save them!! Teaming up with the World Wildlife Fund and Forest and Bird, we will be holding a stall at Union lawn and collecting petition signatures and submission writing. This has been organised to coincide with the Draft Hector’s and Maui’s dolphin Threat Management Plan http://www.doc. govt.nz/template s/page.aspx? id=44618 You have until 24 October 2007 to have your say on the draft Hector’s and Maui’s dolphin Threat Management Plan which seeks to help protect these species.
There will be a talk at the Barclay Lecture Theatre at Otago Museum, 5.30pm – 6:30pm.
Title: “Hector’s dolphin ecology and behaviour, and how you can have your say in their protection”
Associate Professors Liz Slooten and Steve Dawson from University of Otago will give a slide show about their 23 years of research on Hector’s dolphin, including the North Island subspecies Maui’s dolphin.
Saturday 22 September – International Car Free Day
Car-free Day was started in 1998 and involves 100′s of millions of people around the world. This year, the Dunedin event will involve meeting at the museum lawn at midday and doing a ‘critical Mass’ walk / cycle / skate to the Octagon. Cycling and pedestrian advocacy groups will appreciate the support of all who join in! The following Tuesday there will be a screening of ‘Escape from Suburbia’ about Peak Oil, at 730 at Clubs and Socs.
