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Clare Feeney
Clare is a Director of Environmental Communications, a member of the Environment and Business Group, and has more than 20 years' experience in environmental management. She has specific expertise in land disposal of sewage, as well as in a broad range of technical areas relating to water and soil management, pollution control, sustainable stormwater management, and cleaner production and resource efficiency. In recent years Clare has focused on technical work as well as on training and education in areas including:
- developing and presenting training courses for businesses, regulators and community interests on topics including cleaner production, waste minimisation, pollution prevention and Resource Management Act compliance; erosion and sediment control on earthworks sites; riparian buffer management; septic tanks; household hazardous wastes
- developing and evaluating environmental education strategies and programmes
- preparing leaflets, posters, educational resources and promotional campaigns
- technical editing and newsletter production
Qualifications and professional associations
MA in Geography (First Class Honours), University of Auckland, 1977
Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language, Royal Society of Arts, Cambridge, UK
Member of:
- New Zealand Water and Wastes Association
- Waste Management Institute of New Zealand
- New Zealand Association of Training and Development
Recent projects
- facilitating the uptake of low impact urban design and development, for Landcare Research and the University of Auckland
- currently preparing erosion and sediment control guidelines for Environment Canterbury (with Erosion Management and Tony King)
- consultation and education for Auckland City Council and Metrowater’s network consent applications
- preparing guides to the preparation of environmental management plans for the Auckland Regional Council and for Metrowater (interactive web-based approach)
- preparing information leaflets to support an interactive web-based sustainability tool for the vehicle repair industry
- editing and reframing an environmental code of practice for the scrap metal sector
- preparation of the on-site stormwater management manual for NZWERF (with Water Resources Consulting Group and Landcare Research)
- production of stormwater web pages for Auckland City Council
- preparing a stormwater education and communication strategy for North Shore City
- survey and report on uptake and barriers to uptake of sustainable stormwater measures for the NZ Water and Wastes Association (NZWWA)
- analysis of sustainable onsite stormwater measures for Auckland City Council
- analysis of district plan measures to control adverse effects of stormwater runoff for Far North District Council
- septic tank certification training manual for Environment Bay of Plenty
- investigation of sources and controls on stormwater pollution in the Mt Maunganui industrial area for the Tauranga District Council
- Environmental Operations Plan: pollution control checklists for industries, for the Auckland Regional Council
- co-presenter of specialist erosion and sediment control training courses run on behalf of the Auckland Regional Council for consultants and contractors, also presented for Environment Waikato, Greater Wellington and Environment B.O.P
- development and delivery (with Waiora Soil Conservation and NIWA) of the Ministry for the Environment’s Riparian Training Package
- development, facilitation and evaluation of the Auckland Regional Council’s riparian training programme
- site consultant for the Target Zero cleaner production and waste minimisation programme
- trainer for BusinessCare’s cleaner production and business sustainability programme
- water pollution prevention workshops for business, for the Northern Employers & Manufacturers Association
- environmental education strategy development, including evaluating effectiveness of existing programmes
- Treading lightly on the Earth, a waste minimisation education kit for secondary schools, for the Auckland Regional Council
- Save our Soils, an educational resource for the Trees for Survival Trust
- editing technical documents on a range of issues including recycling, urban stormwater management and technical guidelines
Contact details
Environmental Communications
A member of the Environment and Business Group
PO Box 68-440, Newton, AUCKLAND 1032, New Zealand
Phone 09 360 9566
Fax: 09 360 9500
Email: clare@ebg.pl.net