Updates
Keep up to date with the latest Soilsafe info and events.
The Soilsafe news section details the most exciting and latest updates from the programme so you can get to know us better and keep up with our progress.
Halfway through the delivery of our Soilsafe Kids 3-day School Workshops
We can't believe we're more than halfway through the delivery of our Soilsafe Kids' soil education programme to schools in Tāmaki Makaurau! While we committed to delivering our 3-day workshops to 5 school classrooms in 2022, we've been busier than ever and have...
The Opening of Clendon Library’s New Māra Kai
Ka pai Te Pātaka Kōrero o Waimāhia - Clendon Library! Congratulations on the beginnings of your new māra kai! Last Friday we spent our afternoon in the great company of Pacific Vision Aotearoa, Love Food Hate Waste - New Zealand and Auckland Botanic Gardens...
Dustsafe Aotearoa – get in quick with your home dust samples …
Giving the house a good clean this weekend? Why not bag up that dust while you’re at it, and send it through to us to test for metals in your home. W'e'd love your entire vacuum bag! Our sister project Dustsafe Aotearoa is a part of a larger international community...
Back in classrooms!
We're delighted to be back in schools and talking environmental science, geology and soil chemistry with some enthusiastic kids! Wonderful to be back alongside our wonderful community artist colleague, Ekarasa Doblanovic, for some soil art workshops. Thank you...
Congratulations to Cody – our first Soilsafe graduate!
Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Cody Lim, who graduated with his MSc in Environmental Science! He is our first Soilsafe graduate and we are delighted for him! Well done Cody!
Funded MSc opportunity with Soilsafe Kids!
We are looking for a postgraduate student to join us! Soilsafe Kids has a domestic, fees-only Masters scholarship (to a maximum of $8,947.20 NZD) for a student interested to join our research team. The thesis would look at kids’ values of soil and what...