Article Archive for September 2010
This is Charlotte Squire, reporting in from the front-line of the good-news revolution. It’s the countdown to ebook completion time (as I may have mentioned once or twice before) and the wonderful thing is that …
The last day of September is already here…days have slipped and flipped around like yoyos. Seasonal change has brought much excitement and left me feeling somewhat unsettled, scattering the mind in the wind with the …
By Ian Montanjees
We are organizing the White Roofs Project NZ, a very simple and affordable idea offering the fastest way of reducing global warming, and it is being launched as part of the 350 Global …
When I try to win someone over to my view I am lost. But when I know that my own view is good enough already, then I can articulate it without fear.
Right. That’s it. I’m on a mission to complete this ebook. I’m currently converting music files from my album so that I can upload them to You Tube and then share them in my ebook. …
Most luscious moments of the day? A stroll on the beach with a friend. Dog cavorting. Weather threatening to turn dark, wet and moody. Child free me. Relaxed and chatting without having to dart off …
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while are a few goodies from the new Eatright Food slow dried range. For those who haven’t discoverd them, Eatright are big into natural, mostly certified …
By Tania Marsden, recent graduate of the Happyzine Positive Writing Course. This article is a memorial about her friend Kelly, who passed one year ago, and is still inspiring bottom pinching to this very day.
In …
Kiwi school holidays! My little brother and his family have come to stay. They rocked on up in their eighties style Land Rover which was just dripping in holiday paraphernalia. We’re talking the kayak, the …
Well you are reading the blog of someone on a health mission who isn’t very good at it. I confess to a couple of drinks yesterday whilst in Nelson picking up my partner’s daughter from …
I’ve just spent a glorious morning at the HANDS market mingling with my people. Or my ‘peeps’ as some would say. We were crammed in to the Kotinga Hall, a humble little community hall up …
By Rebecca Toon
An inspiring four week harvest of visionary people and projects achieving the seemingly impossible within 100 miles of my Coromandel home.
What do French pirates, Egyptian numerology, really good dresses and my ancestors have …
Honestly. There’s nothing like a wee jaunt down at the water front to pep up girl’s spirits! It’s such a tonic, to be in the presence of the sea or a deep, bubbling river. And …
Introducing the new Wild Energy facebook group. This is a brand new page, so there’s not much going on there yet. But still, I’d like to invite you to join our way cool group. This …
Hi,
As you know, I’ve been working hard since February on my vision of building strong, sustainable urban communities through rooftop vege gardening. I’ve created my first demonstration garden and am currently working on …
Weds 22 Sept was World Car-free day. As a kid, I was lucky enough to live over the road from my suburban primary school (I do believe I even crossed the road alone) and cycled …
By Des Molloy – recent graduate of the Happyzine Positive Writing Course
“Thank God they haven’t found a cure for motorcycling!” This is a refrain that I have oft repeated. Non-motorcyclists just think you are being …
Greatest moment of the day: proudly watching my son remove his trousers and romp with his friends in a puddle. There will come the day when he will ask me to refrain from writing such …
Sometimes life gets so busy with all the myriad of things it contains – suddenly one remembers that she must write another blog!!! Amongst the busyness: moving house/setting up house with my man, computer course, …
I’m still searching for the answer to the (other) big question:
Does Peak Oil exist?
If I’m going to try and convince others within my community to make plans for an alternative future without oil, I need …
As well as living at the foot of New Zealand’s hottest hot bed of biodiversity. I also live around the corner from Te Waikoropupu Springs – Australasia’s largest fresh water springs, and the world’s cleanest, …
As Golden Bay’s complementary currency goes from strength to strength, the youth of Golden Bay are now being invited to participate as “Young HANDS.”
Starting now, children and young adults may join H.A.N.D.S. as Young HANDS. …
Suffice it to say that I got somewhat angry with the way the media twisted the issue into a simplistic conflict story of science vs dummies.
Before I begin: Happy International Peace Day!!! Check out Grace Deathridge’s great article about Peace Day. She’s based in Bristol now, but this time last year she was on Nelson’s Church Steps staging a bed-in.
Today …
- By Grace Deathridge
Tuesday 21st September is the UN International Day of Peace – ‘Peace Day’ for short. For me its return brings back happy memories of last year’s Peace Day with hope and excitement …
By Charlotte Squire – author of The Story of ‘Ten Ways to Have Fun and Chillax As You Live Your Green Dreams’
Once upon a time I thought all environmentalists had to either grow organic food …
It’s Monday morning in Golden Bay and again, it’s not so golden. The rain is incessant; we’re experiencing a late wintery blast and so I sit here, delaying getting out of bed for as long …
We are still in the midst of a huge storm here in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In my home-shire – Golden Bay – which is up the top of the South Island of New Zealand, we’re pretty …
I adore strawberries, for me, next to my precious asparagus, they conjure up pictures of paradise here on Earth and when I pop one into my mouth… all my worries, troubles and infact the World …
I love Sundays. I’ve been effectively programmed by thirty four years of life in New Zealand to expect family time, general relaxation, house-work, a slower pace of life, great food and lawn-mowing from Sundays. And …
“Our Identity Lies ahead of Us!”.
This quote from the famous late Kanak politician Jean-Marie Tjibaou, leader of the independence movement of the indigenous people of New Caledonia, is the theme of the fourth Melanesian Arts …
It was once written (in a Chinese astrology book), that those born into the phase of leo dragon are never completely happy unless they’re in the midst of a virtual storm that requires all of …
The thing I like about the internet is that I generally start searching with a certain theme or subject in mind and then I usually end up somewhere else. It’s like taking a magic …
16th September 2010
University students create campaign to make young people listen
Students at AUT University in Auckland collaborate with technicians and the National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD) to introduce a giant model Ear and iPod …
Did you know that Costa Rica is officially the happiest, greenest country on earth? Check out the video below for information about how and why. I just discovered Ted.com – the online platform for ideas …
Anger is such a powerful force of nature. It is a perfectly appropriate response to witnessing needless suffering and violence – extinction, contamination, exploitation, domination, abuse, manipulation… But I am wisely informed that anger’s use-by date is about 30 seconds.
Good day, ladies and gentleman. It’s shaping up to be a cold and wet one here in Golden Bay, but I am warm and cosy at my computer course in town, putting off the inevitable …
“If we are to be effective agents of positive change, we will need to motivate others into action. This is because we can never do it alone. I have never found anger to …
Introducing: some graphics I just drew. All by myself. And scanned. Just like a grown up. Though not really. These are for the soon to be released ebook that I refer to every one …
Hot stone massage. Have you ever had one? I hadn’t, until today. I’ve just emerged from the health clinic across the road (highly convenient) where I received the hot stone treatment of my life from …
