Article Archive for March 2011
Ocean:Views competition deadline almost here
Kiwis have just two weeks to submit their creative entry to WWF-New Zealand’s Ocean:Views competition, and WWF is calling on New Zealanders across the country to dive into …
I’m loving these videos of Kiwi change-makers. Check out Dunedin based Naturopath Francisca Griffin talking about ‘happiness’ to the Regeneration crew as they passed through Dunedin. She offers food for thought (pun initially unintended, though …
Most amazing moment today: following in the footsteps of my son as he headed determinedly towards the incoming tide, at sunset. His three year old legs were carrying him along at a solid pace. We …
I just thought I’d do a little plug for my friend Nick Feint’s amazing jewellery because he just posted a link to it on facebook and I was enthralled. Nick lives at and runs Stone …
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Despite a meteoric rise in products and services catering to sustainable development, there has been limited recognition for the growing business community of sustainability professionals so far.
That changes today (29 March 2011).
Australia’s fastest growing green …
Australia’s fastest growing green development rating system, EnviroDevelopment, celebrates another milestone this week with the release of its first set of national certification standards.
Since its launch in Queensland in 2006, EnviroDevelopment has certified over 30 …
Today I’ve been excitedly organizing and promoting two green dream courses I’m preparing to run over the next few months. One’s called “How to pin-point, develop, and begin the career of your green dreams” and …
Small and medium-sized New Zealand businesses have dominated the shortlist of eight products for the Unpackit Best Packaging Awards, released today at 5pm.
In contrast, the eight Worst Packaging Awards finalists are all large …
The Colac Bay Youth Jam – photo by Guy Ryan
This week the ReGeneration roadtrip crew hit the South of the South through Wanaka, Queenstown, Te Anau, Riverton and Invercargill. I am constantly surprised by the …
Because great communication is going to save the planet
Pause and Resource by LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Resourcing, in the way I am using the term, means reconnecting to your source of grounding, nourishment, and wholeness.
Recently a student told …
Autumn is making its moods known here in Aotearoa and today in Golden Bay, we were blessed with a cosy, rainy day. It was the kind of Sunday that invites baking, hot chocolates, and lying …
Earth hour. I find it nearly as exciting as New Years Eve. So tonight we dutifully sat there examining each other by candle light and did indeed feel obliged to make a few earth hour …
26 March 2011
Tonight New Zealanders led the global Earth Hour ‘lights out for the planet event’, symbolically switching off lights at 8.30pm for one hour, to show their commitment to protecting the …
“New Zealand begins with sea and ends with sea. Understand this and you begin to comprehend New Zealand and the New Zealander” – Author Maurice Shadbolt
WWF-New Zealand is getting creative to help New …
Check out this short You Tube video featuring some ocean workers sharing their ‘ocean views’. These people make some great points about this sacred aspect of life on planet yeart. Here in New Zealand the …
Kia ora tatou, hello all
Well it’s this weekend! Thanks to lots of wonderful participation and support from around NZ, Neighbours Day Aotearoa is looking like a busy weekend from Kaitaia to Invercargill. …
Today, as promised to Tania Austin – the coordinator of Neighbour’s Day – I dutifully crossed the road and had a yarn with Paul Woodward (he who happens to have just rocked walled his long, …
From setting up car pooling schemes through to up-cycling 24 tonnes of waste carpet into new products, New Zealanders are going ‘beyond the hour’ for this year’s Earth Hour in some ingenious …
Around the country, thousands of people are experiencing anxiety and stress as a result of the recent earthquake and its aftermath. Symptoms such as irritability, difficulty sleeping, having trouble concentrating are generally considered normal responses …
So today’s ‘utterly amazing moment’ happened at Playcentre. Did I note my son performing a triple turn jump on his bike? Or did I perhaps watch an exceptionally special DVD about early childhood development? Did …
Five New Zealand councils and community groups in Central Otago, Hastings, Selwyn, Tauranga, and Upper Hutt have won WWF-New Zealand funding to support their Earth Hour events and activities – joining with …
After the devastating earthquake which shook Christchurch businesses to a holt on 22nd February, the future of events in the city looks bleak as many venues have been left in tatters and most events planned …
Well the title says it all. In fact, that’s all I need to write tonight.
“Ha ha ha!” Laughed the over tired blogger.
So, I woke this morning rather too early for my liking, after going to …
You lean over the fence and summon your neighbour. Keeping your face serious, you wait ’til they’re right in front of you, and then you whisk out that banana cake you baked for them from …
Media release
For immediate release
7 March 2011
Inaugural Neighbours Day Aotearoa announced for last weekend of March
(26 – 27 March 2011)
www.neighboursday.org.nz
A group of not-for-profit organisations joined forces in 2010 to create Neighbours Day Aotearoa, to encourage Kiwis …
Yes indeed, today was another HANDS market day. They have HANDS markets four times per year here in Golden Bay and this time I decided to have my own stall, rather than simply consume.
I’ve fallen …
My congratulations to Crest Energy who have been granted consent from the Kiwi government to develop a marine turbine power generation in the Kaipara Habour. The project’s estimated to cost around 600 million and the …
Lani Evans
We spent this week on the West Coast, traveling a thin ribbon of road between beautiful coastlines and majestic mountains. This place is total Moa country, the longest, thinnest, wildest region in Te Wai …
By Sean Weaver
In an interconnected world there are no boundaries – neither in space nor in time. Imagine a fabric that extends in all directions without end and you all of it with a perception …
I’m at the beach. I’m officially on Mummy duty, and still I’m surprised to realise yet again that feels of deep, contented well-being are curling happily around my heart and are rippling through the cells …
Great communication is going to save the planet
Understanding & Responding to Blame by LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
At a most basic level, blame is a form of self-criticism.
I recently had my five-year old niece over night. When she …
I’m going through another ‘feed my mind with inspiring food’ phase. It’s really doin’ it for me. Check out this AMAZING VIDEO. I hope you can access it easily. You have got to watch it. …
Mark your diaries, ladies and gentlemen! The Palmerston North flock of Frocks on Bikes presents:
Rollin’ by the River!
When? 2pm, Sunday the 20th of March 2011
Where? The Esplanade Gardens (meet by the conservatory – just …
The attraction of blame is that you imagine it will provide some sort of relief in a difficult situation.
In anything you do, you long to be harmony with life – meet your needs and those …
What are the core values that guide you? This is an interesting question that I found to answer to, for myself, today. I just filled out an interesting questionnaire on this site to determine the …
By Susie Spiller
I value wellbeing above all else. This involves communication – being heard and listening to the intention behind words, without hearing criticism and blame. I am blessed to live in an eco village, …
Tides – Inspiring Young Women
Tides Charitable Trust specialises in assisting young women to make the fundamental, emotional and psychological shift from child to young adult. We run community led camps designed as …
