If you also pledge to do some of these actions you'll go in the Gold rewards draw.
energy actions
- Install solar hot water heating (funding information here)
- Upgrade or install insulation in your ceiling, walls and floors (get existing insulation checked out by an expert for effectiveness) – contact Council’s Eco Building Design Advisor for advice and information on subsidies
- Use energy-efficient heating (eg, heatpumps or approved solid fuel burners - info on Council's Clean Heat Warm Homes programme)
- Buy energy-efficient appliances
- Grow some of your own food
transport actions
- Cycle, walk or take The Bus in Nelson or The Bus in Blenheim five times per week
- Cycle any trip less than 3km distance
- Use your Super Gold Card for off-peak bus travel in Nelson or use your Super Gold Card for bus travel in Blenheim
- Start a Carpool group with your friends, colleagues or neighbours and carpool every day to work (there's free parking up for grabs!) or have a search Jayride for trips around your home town and the rest of New Zealand
- Investigate teleworking with your employer
waste actions
- Use your Compost (Nelson) or Compost (TDC) to start a veggie garden or an open orchard
- Join a local garden club
- Attend a free Nelson City Council Create Your Own Eden or a Tasman District Council Create Your Own Eden composting programme on how to grow vegetables
- Take garden waste to Council Green Waste hopper at Transfer Station
- Preserve and store excess vegetables/fruit
water actions
- Choose water efficient appliances
- Install greywater and/or rainwater systems
- Design and plant a ‘rain garden' to conserve water
- Go off mains and use rainwater for household uses
nature actions
- Join the Transition Nelson Seedsavers Group
- Set up an open orchard in your neighbourhood
- Help your neighbours/community set up a vegetable garden
- Turn your lawn into a no-dig garden
- Write to your MP to ask for national action on climate change
