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Joseph Johnson/Stuff Former Christchurch mayor and city councillor Vicki Buck, left, with Niki Stephenson, senior leader at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery, at the site of what will soon be a shared campus for school students, focused on climate action. A group of Christchurch schools are joining forces to establish a shared campus on the edge of the city's red zone that will give students an opportunity to learn about climate action. At least eight Canterbury schools are onboard with the proposed climate action satellite campus, which has been led by former Christchurch mayor Vicki Buck. The...

Christchurch 'climate action campus' a first-of-its-kind © Close up Kid hand planting young tree In a first of a kind for Australasia, Christchurch will soon be home to a Climate Action Campus. From May next year it will take students from eight schools who will get their hands dirty with everything from conducting experiments to growing vegetables and rearing chickens. It will be run as a satellite of special character school Ao Tawhiti, and is supported by the Ministry of Education. Campus director Niki Stephenson, from Ao Tawhiti, said it would show young people ways they could take acti...