Top Tips - Valley Project - Jenny Wagner and Claire Speedy
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What is the Valley Project and why is community knowledge sharing important?
This podcast was produced by Or FM Dunedin with support from New Zealand on the air. Top tips for avoiding the tip. Let's reduce, reuse and recycle together. Our guests and listeners share their top tips for minimising waste. So we're here today talking with Jenny Wagner and Claire Speedy from the uh Valley Project. And uh Top Tips is just a big uh top tip for you to share with the listeners about something that you think that we could all be better at. So, Jenny, let's start with you. What is your top tip for us today?
How can simple conversations with neighbours prevent waste and teach new skills?
Well, my top tip is something that I have to work on as well. Um, but I think people sometimes uh underestimate how much value there is in community knowledge sharing and having a conversation uh with your neighbor. Um and that can save a perfectly good item from landfill or uh can help someone learn a new skill that lasts well into the future. And just having those conversations and even if it's a little bit uncomfortable to socialize for some I know that's uh something that I have to overcome, uh but having those conversations um quite often let you learn something new that you might not have otherwise had the ability to.
I love that. Your top tip is community connection. And education. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
absolutely. Claire.
What practical tips does Claire share for re‑using shower water at home?
My top tip is collecting water from your shower. You know, it takes ages before your shower gets hot sometimes and there's all this water that's coming out. And coming from Tamaki Makoto, I know how important it is to think about water use and um you know, having a bucket handy to just top that up with water, you can use that in your garden or use that for, I don't know, washing clothes or flushing the Flushing the loo even, so many ways to use that water rather than just have it go down the sink, uh down the drain. So, um water's such an important resource and I think we can really be a bit more mindful, uh, down here in Auttipotti about how we how we conserve our water.
Yeah, yeah. Coming from Waikawaishi myself, you know, there's there's uh a lot out there in terms of the water, as you can imagine. Uh certainly something that we we take a good view on, um, out there 'cause yeah, it it comes a long way to get to us. Sure does. Not sure that Dunedin generally has the same sort of challenges, really.
No, no. I and I guess that's it. It it's still got the same carbon footprint uh as as water produced elsewhere, despite the fact that uh the water itself might be plentiful. So there's so always reasons, aren't there, to uh to minimize the use of these things. Or maybe just take shorter showers.
Why is water conservation especially critical in the valley region?
And yeah, easy for you to say in there, love. Help you save all your power bills too. I mean,
honestly, hot hot water is one of the biggest the biggest contributors to our power bills at the moment, so
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is it could it it could tell. But of course it is coming out of the hot water tank, isn't it? It is. Yeah.
Who pays the bills in our household? Can you tell? But I I really I really genuinely enjoyed um like that top tip as well because, you know, we've got those two top tips working together. If you're having the ki you know, the conversation with your neighbour, maybe they've got a problem with their, you know, water um bill, maybe they're not aware that they need you know, they could put a bucket in their shower. Having those conversations would be really quite helpful. Um and I think the the the really um the really important part that I think is um, you know, really quite relevant is that, you know, out in the down in the valley, you know, you've got easily accessible water um right next to to you.
How does the Valley Project use eDNA testing to monitor water quality and community use?
Like how often do people actually spend time in in you know, near the the water in in the valley?
Uh well that's actually um a project that I'm currently working on. We just did some E DNA testing uh recently and just got our data back uh as part of our sycamore removal project. And so I can tell you there were uh hints of people in the water uh on the day that we tested. So you know that people, amongst many other things that we saw, uh do make use of that space.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Valley Project and why is community knowledge sharing important?
0:00–0:39
2
How can simple conversations with neighbours prevent waste and teach new skills?
0:39–1:24
3
What practical tips does Claire share for re‑using shower water at home?
1:24–2:44
4
Why is water conservation especially critical in the valley region?
2:44–3:44
5
How does the Valley Project use eDNA testing to monitor water quality and community use?
3:44–5:04
6
What are the key takeaways for listeners to rethink waste and build stronger community connections?
5:04–5:45