Article Archive for June 2010
If you live in the ‘wops’ you’re lucky as you can keep as many chooks as you wish. Don’t despair the rest of use who live cheek by jowl in urbania, can still keep some …
There’s a new baby in the hood and my whole community are rippling with excitement about it. Mostly, I found out about this on Facebook. Which is quite funny. We actually do talk to each other …
Today someone, who would prefer to remain anomomous, emailed me a link to a project he’s been working on called ‘Eye Love You’. You have got to check this out. The purpose of the Eye …
For the hobbyist beekeeper, the winter months tend to be a time to reflect, read and maybe come up with a brilliant idea or two! I am not very good on the `ideas` front, but …
Homelessness and generally people in need are always one of those things where we all want to do something. Most people in New Zealand are basically pretty decent people. When disaster strikes, kiwis roll up …
Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed for Fresh FM by the Golden Bay-famous Grant Knowles. Grant is a local drum maker – he founded Tribull Drums – where he makes, repairs, and teaches people …
Today (Sunday) the sun beamed it’s warmth into the lives of the good citisens of Golden Bay. It found us, even if had to filter slyly through well-shut curtains, or creep beneath closed doors. And mesmerized, we stepped …
Have you ever been at odds about what to get that guy who has everything for his birthday? Perhaps you’re running a little low on time or money, yet you really want to offer some …
Why Chickens?
Chickens are the new black in Green Urban Living. Once you have read the following I’m sure you will be racing out to get your own feathery flock!
Tasty, Rich, Nutritious Eggs
As Kiwis we love …
Gollywood – what do you think? It’s the Golden Bay version of Bollywood (just in case you didn’t figure that out). So here we are, mid-winter, in a small rural community, in New Zealand, learning …
Media release from Cycling Advocates’ Network, www.can.org.nz
Friday 25 June 2010
Hastings and New Plymouth will benefit from a $7 million Model Communities project aimed at getting more people cycling and walking.
Cycling groups welcomed the news.
“Everyone wins …
Thats what The Joyologist says can happen when you use the art of improv to get present!!
When you are present you are not stressed and you are in a place of peace and acceptance of …
How about this story. A guy – lets call him Dave – is reading some material by a NZ pediatrician and a US economist, and is so stunned by the material he resolved to tell …
Don’t you love finding people who dream exciting green dreams and make them happen? Today I ‘met’ Janet Luke. This is how she introduced herself to me via email:
“I am a Landscape Architect, Environmental Planner, Permaculturalist and …
I see that the NZ Green Party have been running a campaignto ‘save our treasured places’, namely our national parks. My son’s named after the Kahurangi National Park. I love that park. It looms green and …
I have no graphic design talent and the idea of me creating my own website is laughable. My skills deficiency means that since embarking on my rooftop gardens project and founding Urban Pantry I’ve been …
Cycling Advocates’ Network (CAN) says reverse-in parking is better for people in cars and pedestrians as well as cyclists.
CAN spokesperson, Anne FitzSimon, applauds New Zealand Transport Agency support for reverse-in parking.
“Reverse-in parking improves the driver’s …
I’m sitting outside in the sunshine, leaning against a museum, and I can’t move. Because I’ve stopped. Finally. To rest. Here in the warmth. And my body feels as if it’s falling, slowly, like molasses, so accustomed it is to moving, …
‘On the edge – inspirational women in science’ breakfast event in Dunedin
As part of the 2010 New Zealand International Science Festival
Wondering where a career in science could take you? A breakfast event to inspire the …
Oh oh! How exciting! In this very moment, as the darkness settles in here in Aotearoa we are heading into the longest night of the year. Winter Solstice is upon us aka ‘mid-winter’. Some call …
Today here in Golden Bay the Mid-Winter HANDS Market pulsed for hours in the Takaka Primary school hall. It was a rainy, moody kind of day, hence the back-up rainy day school-hall option. Once you made …
I came across this great quote in the book ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert last night. The author borrowed it from Sean, her Yogic Irish dairy farmer friend, while she was in India, finding …
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Media release
A neglected part of New Zealand’s First World War story, the elaborate peace celebrations held in July 1919, is now being told on Ministry for Culture and Heritage website www.nzhistory.net.nz.
‘In …
Here in Aotearoa/New Zealand we’re in the middle of Matariki, which also coincides with winter-solstice. It’s the ‘dead of winter’. It’s the time to nestle inside with the heat pumping and a good bowl of …
Officially, I am now a father, and perhaps I’m becoming an older, more experienced father. I do have 16 months of daily training. Nothing actually prepares or gives you the experience you need, until you …
I wonder how many of you who read my last article on happiness have started your own enquiry and become more aware of what makes you feel happy and how happiness leaks away? …
For the third year in a row artists from the New Zealand Art Guild are joining forces to raise money and awareness for the Mental Health Foundation through a unique charity art project and auction.
On …
Yay! The winner of Inhabit.com’s recent Spring Greening Competition designer Sarah Turner has agreed to feature in my e-book. Here are some questions and answers (that I think may have already been published on inhabit.com) with Sarah, who …
I have some exciting news!
I am very pleased to announce that from August I will take up to 12 people through the journey of creating your very own online business.
In this training program you …
I’m looking forward to the day when going on-line and working on Happyzine shall once again be a walk in the park because I own a healthy computer. At present I encounter an array of …
This is Yvonne McLaren’s first ever blog for Happyzine. Yvonne works with various ‘to be homed’ groups around Auckland and has good news to share …
This blog is about homelessness, but not as we know …
Auckland is a unique culinary crock-pot, encompassing a dazzling array of foods from the dining tables of the 181 ethnic groups that call New Zealand’s largest city home. The World on Your Plate series at …
I was recently reminded of my opinion that I think New Zealand should become 100 % organic. I remembered when I was looking around on http://intersect.ning.com/ and I came accross a comment, well, more a question that …
LAUGH your way to Health & Happiness
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha He Hee Heeeee
Laughter Club Takaka
WINTER 2010
TUESDAYS 5:10 – 5:50PM – Community Centre
FRIDAYS 9:00 …
I wish I could do this or I wish I could do that are not the most powerful of statements you can make to get what you want.
Wishing for sun on a dreary Winters day …
(While I grow my son and raise my good news website [geeky joke])
Well hello magnificent reader. She/he who positively quakes with untapped potential (no matter how much you’re already using). She/he with a whole world …
What on earth has redundancy got to do with pyjamas? And more importantly, how can the notion help your business operate? Well, let me explain.
With the advent of the industrial revolution came radical change …
(While I raise my son and grow my good news website).
Intersect. This is another website that I really enjoy (yesterday I raved about inhabitat.com) and have been spending some time on over the past few …
Moving into Toddler-Hood - from a manly man’s perspective …
Our daughter, Isla, is now just over fifteen months old. She’s gone from a slow moving newborn that liked to sleep often, to a fast …
www.inhabitat.com is my favourite website. Full stop. I can’t check out their weekly newsletter without feeling 100% pure hope. They’ve just announced the winners of the Buckminster Fuller Institute 2010 Challenge (who wins US$100,000. I …
