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Rehabilitated Sea Turtles Released Back Into Wild
Kelly Tarlton’s SEA LIFE Aquarium Aids Sick Turtles Back to Health
 
 
Five sick and injured turtles were successfully released back into the ocean at the Poor …

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Car Free Sunday!
October 30, 2011 – 11:00 am | No Comment

 
Three Car Free Days Planned in Response to the Tauranga Oil Spill, Over the Next Three Months
Press release: Happyzine
Could you forget fossil fueled transport for one day?
This Sunday marks the first of Three Car Free …

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The Final Blog – Would You Like the Good News, or the Good News?
April 29, 2011 – 3:43 pm | 8 Comments

Oh my goodness.  365 days of blogging (I forgot two days, and may have in fact repeated a few days, but hey, here’s to being human).  And so here I am on the final day.
Let’s …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 363 – Three of My Favorites 365 Blogs Over the Past Year – Believing in your dreams, just be yourself and honey bees: a sign of hope.
April 27, 2011 – 8:19 pm | No Comment

I’ve decided it’s time for some fly-bys of the blog action over the past year.  Here are three random blogs I re-discovered and felt affection for:
Here’s one blog about keeping the faith and believing in …

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Wind Power, Zero Energy Homes, Power Conservation and Local Production Hailed As A Great Mix in New Zealand Green Energy Challenge
February 15, 2011 – 10:37 pm | 3 Comments

Rather than choosing one answer to New Zealand’s increasing demand for power, a group of energy experts on the judges panel for the green energy design challenge ‘Wild Energy’ have ruled that a cluster of …

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Green Designers and Inventors – I Know You’re Out There! Optimistic Kiwi Editor Invites the World to Tell New Zealand How to Power Its Communities Sustainably
January 24, 2011 – 3:28 pm | No Comment

A Kiwi good-news website editor says New Zealand is one of the last green frontiers and is inviting people, world-wide, to help Kiwis keep it that way by suggesting the greenest ways to power …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog 221 – Girl’s Innocence Preserved in Police Station
December 2, 2010 – 12:00 pm | One Comment

Today I found myself standing at the police station watching a nice police man demonstrate all the toys on his special vest – including the pepper spray and a flicky wacky stick thing.  He spoke …

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Wild Energy Green Design Challenge Attracts New Zealand’s Energy Experts as Judges
November 26, 2010 – 7:20 pm | No Comment

Wild Energy Green Design Challenge Attracts New Zealand’s Energy Experts as Judges.
Have you got a half finished green design project in your back yard? Perhaps you have a fully functioning power saving invention already …

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Energy Efficiency at Work
November 6, 2010 – 4:47 pm | One Comment

It should be a “no brainer”…. shouldn’t it?  If you save energy at work, your operating costs reduce.  When your costs reduce, you either make bigger profits, or you can be more cost competitive in …

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Round the World or Round the Corner
October 23, 2010 – 6:39 pm | No Comment

Jules Verne and I have nothing in common.
My first circumnavigation of the world took over 10 years to complete. Traveling into the sunset, If I’d been going about it in a straight forward fashion that’d …

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Happyzine Announces the Launch of ‘Wild Energy’ the Green Energy Design Competition
October 18, 2010 – 7:58 pm | 12 Comments

Wild Energy – a green energy design competition intended to spark more creativity, fun and imagination amongst environmentalists – is open for entries.  The competition was developed in response to the challenge that New Zealand …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#179 – Whew! She is Launched.
October 18, 2010 – 5:00 pm | One Comment

Mama mia!  Finally! She is here!  The grand launch of Wild Energy.  It’s been a big day.  Me, I’m feeling rather tired.  Pulling this all together took just a little longer than expected … ha …

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Energy Risks for Business
October 16, 2010 – 11:25 pm | One Comment

“… we have entered a period of deep uncertainty in how we will source energy for power, heat and mobility, and how much we will have to pay for it.”
These words are quoted directly from …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#175 – Wild Energy is Wildly Happening SOON!!!
October 14, 2010 – 6:00 pm | One Comment

Coolest moments of this day? Chatting with Mr David Laing my Wild Energy cohort about our … giggle: LAUNCH.  It’s been absolutely marvelous over the past week seeing groups step up for us and put …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#170 – The Power of Now
October 8, 2010 – 6:00 pm | No Comment

Well my friends, the 9000th draft my first ever ebook is with the great David Laing for yet another edit and so this frees me up to write up some accompanying courses I want to …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#162 – Thanks My Lovely Friends
September 30, 2010 – 9:54 pm | 4 Comments

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 …

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Hey Green Business Owners! Sponsored Prizes Are Wanted for the Happyzine Wild Energy Green Design Competition
September 6, 2010 – 8:35 pm | One Comment

Kia Ora,
My name’s Charlotte Squire, I’m the Editor of www.happyzine.co.nz – New Zealand’s good news website (with a key focus on positive news about the environment).  I would like to invite you to participate as …

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Solar panels for beginners
August 21, 2010 – 8:00 am | One Comment

It all started in early autumn.  I cycled past a garage sale, and spotted what looked like a solar panel on the lawn.  It couldn’t be – could it?
I’d always harboured a secret desire to …

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Sustainability, Government and Offshore Inspiration
August 15, 2010 – 8:37 pm | No Comment

It would be easy to become dis-heartened if you work in the sustainability field in New Zealand.  Although the National party has introduced an emissions trading scheme, it is gutless, and won’t in any meaningful …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#114 – Roll’n With It
August 10, 2010 – 1:15 pm | No Comment

Today has been an exciting day on the Happyzine front. Thanks to David Laing (who it turns out is a total online application techy kind of guy) we’ve now set up RSS feeds from …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#112 – My Life as a Computer Geek Rocks!
August 7, 2010 – 8:17 pm | No Comment

Today I had the enormous pleasure of leading part one of a two part work-shop about how to build and run your own blog.  It was a rainy, cold day here in Golden Bay, a …

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Talking Rubbish – and Waste Audits
August 4, 2010 – 8:53 pm | No Comment

A good thing for any organisation to do from time to time is review the management of any waste that is produced in the course of the day to day operation.  In this …

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Measuring your progress
July 30, 2010 – 9:55 pm | No Comment

A challenge that all organisations face is reporting results to their stakeholders.  Embarking on the sustainability journey presents new facets to that challenge.
The old adage that you “cannot manage what you cannot measure” is a good …

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What is sustainability?
July 21, 2010 – 3:24 pm | No Comment

Although I’ve already written a few blogs, I suddenly realised that I hadn’t actually taken the time to provide a definition of sustainability. So, before we go any further, let’s define the term. …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#96 – Personal Sustainability – Why It’s Right Up There With the Environmental Kind
July 21, 2010 – 3:00 pm | 5 Comments

So today, I hit the pillow.  Yes, that’s right, I took to my bed, pulled the bed-covers over my head and rested.  I slumbered.  I let go of everything – handed it over to everyone else – …

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Getting Started With Sustainability at Work
July 14, 2010 – 2:30 pm | No Comment

If you’ve made a personal commitment to behave more sustainably then you’ve probably started making changes in your life.  You’ve already changed your light bulbs to compact fluorescent, you’ve started taking the bus instead of …

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Business Sustainability
July 10, 2010 – 4:30 pm | No Comment

Many businesses seem to be challenged when it comes to sustainability. Why? Because everyone in a business is (should be!) focussed on achieving the outcomes desired by investors.
When you’re focussed on your cash flow, or …

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Teen Sex and Corporate Sustainability
July 2, 2010 – 8:16 pm | No Comment

Marc Gunther tells a joke comparing corporate sustainability and teen sex – you can find his original article here. The joke goes:
“Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#56 – Kumara, Spinach and Ginger Soup Recipe
June 10, 2010 – 10:50 pm | One Comment

(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
This evening I cooked this yummy winter soup and a gluten free apple/feijoa crumble.  The soup was delicious.  All the nourishing vegetables, so hot and …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#42 – Love on a Rainy Day
May 27, 2010 – 6:12 pm | No Comment

Today was the kind of rainy winter’s day here in Golden Bay, when you feel not only snug, but also smug if you’re lucky enough to be inside, at home with the fireplace (or heat …

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