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Floating Wetlands - Create your own from bamboo

Have you ever used floating wetlands? We had, but mostly they were built primarily of plastic, are imported from overseas and cost an exorbitant amount.  To test whether we could build a cost effective and simple to make floating wetland, we teamed up with Toi consulting and Ecoquest to further develop Element Environmental’s prototype bamboo floating wetland.   With funding from MBIEs curious minds science and innovation fund as well as loads of energy from Te Kauwhat...

Building Capability and Capacity for Resource Management

It was great to present at this year's Farmed Landscapes Research Centre conference at Massey University in February to update the delegates on a great new project that we are developing alongside the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), Regional Councils, and the New Zealand Association of Resource Management (NZARM), known as, "The Capability and Capacity Builder for Resource Management". Element Environmental has gained the opportunity to support and project manage a three-year project in...

How we got from there to here: Starting up Element Environmental

As the new year starts we wanted to share some thoughts on how we got Element Environmental ‘from there to here’, since we started out in mid-2021. It feels good to get our reflections down on paper, and take a moment to say, hey, we did it!  Maybe it might even provide others with a little bit of inspiration. 😊   Back in early 2021, the thought of going into business was very scary but also pretty darn exciting.  We didn’t know how much work we’d get, an...

Our Climate Change Response

Kia ora koutou,  Over the last few months we have been looking at collective approaches, challenges & opportunities in managing GHG emissions.  We talked to catchment groups, and people working alongside them. Thanks everyone for your involvement in this project for NZ Landcare Trust.  Here’s a summary of what we heard:  Opportunities & challenges are as diverse as catchment groups themselves. Groups see the advantage in sharing knowledge, GHG reporti...