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S P O N S O R E D F E A T U R E
CLIMATE ACTION WEEK
Entrepreneurial Women with Purpose was recently selected
to be a part of the GovTech Accelerator hosted by CreativeHQ,
for a project Girls who Grow which is all about enabling the
next generation of female leaders in agriculture to create
climate positive environments by weaving indigenous
knowledge with innovation and technology.
There have been so many incredible learnings
through this process and the opportunity to be in
the learning environment of an accelerator but
the thing that I have loved the most is having a
much younger team working with me in the
development of the project, that I have been
learning so much from.
One of our team, Aimee Blake who is at Lincoln It was while reading this book, alongside many
University doing her second Masters at age 23, conversations in our community with council,
shared a book with me "From what is, to what if" associations, investors, future thinkers, iwi,
by environmental author and activist Rob young people and our local business
Hopkins. I added it to my wishlist on Audible, and community that the idea for Climate Action
finally after a few weeks, found time to listen to it. Week Marlborough was born.
I hit play on a recent drive to town, and Stealing the name, from our community across
immediately wanted to pull over to get my the hill in Nelson, Climate Action Week
notepad and pen out as there were so many great Marlborough is in the calendar for Monday 13th
pearls of wisdom and my imagination being February to Friday 17th February 2023 where we
sparked. But as you would know, something that's will host a Garden Marlborough Style event
not very conducive on State Highway 1. taking our business community out and about
to immerse themselves into other local
So I read it a second time, with a notepad and businesses who are actively pursuing
pen once I had really gotten a grasp of the regenerative and green practices to create a
concepts he was sharing. positive impact. With Yealands Estate Winery,
Elemental Distillery, Sanford, Dog Point and
The thinking began with.... One forty one Kaituna Sawmill our launch host
What if we as a community could come together organisations. Businesses will be able to come
and create a collective imagination of what was along, meet the people behind the org,
possible for the future, one where everything immerse into an interactive learning experience
worked out ok. One where all of our community and understand the work that they have been
thrived, our children felt safe, loved and full, one doing to being citizens shaping the future in a
where there was healthy food in abundance that clean, green and prosperous environment.
all could afford, one where the environment was
luscious and abundant, one where we could hear The overall objectives of Climate Action Week
the morning bird song along our urban pathways. Marlborough are about creating a low carbon
emissions economy within a highly productive
What if we as a community of Marlborough could and thriving community, something that
come together with collective imagination to get certainly aligns to the communities future
creative in repainting Marlborough's and New vision.
Zealand's future, where we could ensure we were
on the global map for much more than just wine! Tickets are on sale now via Humanitix.
