The Otago Polytechnic will receive $28,250 to develop a
course aimed at helping green-minded businesses grow into
more environmentally sustainable ventures.
The funding came from the 2009-10 Sustainable Management
Fund, which supported community groups, iwi, businesses and
local government to undertake projects that made a positive
difference to the way communities cared for their
environments, Ministry for the Environment operations
director Martyn Pinckard said.
The polytechnic's project aims to co-ordinate existing local
resources and develop a course which is freely available to
students, graduates and members of the public who wish to
learn how to plan for business that is ecologically,
economically and socially sustainable.
It was one of two projects which will receive funding for 12
months.
Wanaka's Te Kakano Aotearoa Trust will also receive $13,000
from the ministry for its Waterfall Creek revegetation
project.
The trust will restore, protect and enhance the indigenous
flora and fauna along the Waterfall Creek outlet.
It will replant the area with indigenous species and set up
education and work days with the Te Kakano nursery, local
community and visitors to the area.
Thirty-one projects across New Zealand will receive grants
from the 2009-10 fund.
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