2024 Preparing for Spring
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." – Audrey Hepburn
Kia ora,
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." – Audrey Hepburn, and Spring at Elements is all about looking at some amazing initiatives that plant gardens and contribute to a better tomorrow.
Elements at the Auckland Garden Designfest 23-24 November 2024
Elements is excited to be a part of the Auckland Garden Designfest 2024, thanks to our fabulous landscape design team at Sculpt and Claire Talbot their Proud Founder and Garden Designer.
Tickets are on sale now to give you access to 20 spectacular gardens in Auckland over the weekend of 23 -24 November 2024. If a guided bus tour is more your thing, this option is available too.
What we love even more than being able to visit these beautiful gardens, is that fundraising from the event this year goes to support the following charities:
· Oke
· Rotary
A massive thank you to the event organisers which is a joint effort between The Garden Design Society of New Zealand (GDSNZ), Rotary Newmarket, and Dove Hospice & Wellness. The countdown is on.
Coldplay 13, 15 & 16 November – Eden Park
For the first time since 2016, Coldplay will perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland. Tickets have low availability, so if you haven’t already, and I know most of you have, then there is still time to get in quick.
What Elements loves about Coldplay as much as their music, is their tour’s sustainability initiatives, with a recent update revealing that, on a show-by-show comparison, their current tour has so far produced 47% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour in 2016/17, and that more than 7 million trees have already been planted around the world (with one being planted for each concert goer).
Trees that Count
This is very much in keeping with Elements’ own recognition that our business has an environmental, social and economic responsibility to protect and enhance the environment for future generations and the long-term sustainability of the tourism industry in New Zealand. Elements continues to be a proud supporter of the amazing initiative Trees that Count.
Kaitiakitanga and the Tiaki Promise
Kaitiakitanga means the act of protecting, the responsibility of stewardship, and, from a Māori worldview - the authority entrusted to the people of the land to live in a way that ensures that whenua (land), wai (water sources), Ranginui (sky father) remains in a state befitting for future generations. We see Elements as the vehicle through which both hosts, employees and guests alike are 'Kaitiaki' or guardians of this beautiful place we have the privilege of enjoying.
Tiaki means to care for people, place and culture. For more information on how you can do your bit when travelling in New Zealand, check out more information on the Tiaki Promise.