Articles in Environment
Arcadia Festival
Happyzine has always been in the forefront of highlighting all efforts which consciously confront challenges, and enhance our daily life. These challenges are numerous in our present times, particularly environmental ones with no real …
By Seema Singh
Coming to reside in Wellington from Fiji gave me a great opportunity to explore my self beliefs of being an environment enthusiast. My studies at Victoria University introduced me to various literature on …
12 December 2011
The National Foundation for the Deaf congratulates New Zealand’s first profoundly deaf MP
The National Foundation for the Deaf warmly congratulates the Green Party’s Mojo Mathers on becoming New Zealand’s first profoundly deaf Member …
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 – Wellington
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use
Forest & Bird welcomes new report on rivers
Forest & Bird today backed the New Zealand Conservation Authority’s recommendation that a single government …
Time to re-write the story.
Durban, South Africa: The United Nations climate change talks starting today present a unique opportunity for leaders of the world to move beyond political posturing and lay the foundations for an …
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use
Water decision good for Waitaki environment
Forest & Bird today welcomed the decision by Environment Canterbury (ECan) to decline nine irrigation and water take consents in the Upper Waitaki …
Hey there,
My name is Rachel and I’m a 350 Aotearoa volunteer currently focussing on establishing regional groups throughout the country to build the climate movement. We would really love your energy and your help!
We’re rolling …
Forest and Bird
A Vote for Nature is a vote for the New Zealand we love and want to pass on to our children
In the lead up to the election, we need to remind political parties …
For immediate release: Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust
A limited number of native trees, grasses and plants are now for sale, with proceeds going to help save yellow-eyed penguins. The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust’s not for profit and community …
Every 10 years DOC turns to the public to find out what communities believe should be the priorities for conservation over the next decade. This leads to the development of conservation management strategies (CMS) which …
Media release from Southern Discoveries
1 November 2011
Sinbad Gully Kiwi “thriving” in Milford Sound sanctuary
A pair of breeding Kiwi introduced eight months ago to a remote valley overlooking Milford Sound are plump, happy and thriving, …
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 12:23 pm
Press Release: Horizons Regional Council
MEDIA RELEASE
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Rare Mudfish found near Bulls
There is something fishy going on in the outskirts of Bulls. In a tributary of the Tutaenui …
Hey friends –
We’re still exhilarated from the past weekend of Moving Planet events — a truly amazing show of global solidarity, committment, and creativity.
We wanted you to have the first glimpse of the video showing …
How to Move a Stuck Planet?
By Aaron Packard
Thousands of people around New Zealand will be rallying for solutions to climate change on September 24th, as part of the global day of action, Moving Planet. Come …
By Sean Weaver
Unfurling like a furry monkey being born tail first, the hairs of the young tree fern frond caught the sunlight as the clouds parted briefly high above the forest canopy. He was walking …
Bringing Life to the Land and Wealth to Society
by Lis Alington, Editor, Earth Matters
Imagine that the earth is an apple…
If you chop it into 32 pieces, then just a single one of those pieces …
Some very inspiring news gets lost in archives – we’re resurrecting some Hopebuilding stories for Happyzine readers.
It took the Kibera Youth Reform Group just 105 days from the time they started clearing a site that …
New Agriculturist
Some very inspiring news gets lost in archives – we’re resurrecting some Hopebuilding stories for Happyzine readers.
Mali is one of the largest cotton producers in Africa and about 40% of rural households …
What is i-Tree?
i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban …
Pioneering trap study leads way for return of Kokako to East Taranaki forest
Wellington, New Zealand – An area of remote forest in East Taranaki, where the haunting melody of the kokako has been …
Media Release
July 27, 2011
For Immediate Release
World leading environmental monitoring tool launched
The world’s first real-time, automated, web-based mass flux monitoring solution, which allows users to monitor and analyse the dispersion of pollutants, has been launched in New Zealand.
Trifecta …
NIWA Media Release 18 July 2011
Tangaroa’s amazing voyage
NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa has just completed a very successful voyage of habitats of significance for …
1. What is NIWA’s purpose?
NIWA’s purpose is to enhance the economic value and sustainable management of New Zealand’s aquatic resources and environments, to provide understanding of climate and the atmosphere and increase resilience to weather …
Emperor penguin visits the Kapiti Coast
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 1:21 pm
Press Release: Department of Conservation
Date: 21st June 2011
Emperor penguin visits the Kapiti Coast
Kapiti Coast residents have been treated to a rare visit by an emperor …
Majora Carter: Activist for environmental justice
Majora Carter is a visionary voice in city planning who views urban renewal through an environmental lens. The South Bronx native draws a direct connection between ecological, economic …
NIWA & The University of Auckland EMBARGOED UNTIL 31 MAY 2011
Migration patterns linked to genetic differences in New Zealand seabirds
Ground-breaking research by NIWA and The University of Auckland, investigating the annual movements of New …
What if you could live the life of your dreams and save the planet, all at the same time?
New! ‘Like’ the facebook page: 30 Days of Fun (and Chillaxed) Green Goal Achievement this April 2011
Hi, …
I was well known in my youth as an ‘effective’ thrower of stones and can still bring down a pteradactyl gliding amongst low cloud (imaginary now, most of my throwing) and while I can still …
Every time I drive past Te Wai Korari wetland on the edge of our little south coast town, I thank my lucky star. Given that I pass by quite often,
that’s a lot of thanking! The …
My name’s Charlotte Squire, I’m the wild founder of Happyzine and I would like to tell you something wonderful about Wild Energy.
A few years ago I heard about the tale of the Mokihinui River here …
By Clair Fones – recent graduate of the Happyzine Positive Writing Course
I’m tired, sweaty and aching, my heavy backpack is hooked up in vegetation again and I’m flailing around like a fly caught in a …
By Sean Weaver
Over the last twenty-five years of environmental practice, I have had countless opportunities to experience and reflect on how to enhance my effectiveness. I have had my fair share of failures and successes …
Your eyes are feasting on an array of delicate blooms with their own artists palette of shades and immeasurable incalculable infinity of geometric designs.
How does this make you feel?
Relaxed, senses sated?
This is the powerful effect …
by Claire Chateau
“And after we get the Gold Award…what do we do?”
This was one of the burning questions asked by Alex, eight, last week, as he was reflecting upon the eco-journey of his school, together …
By Sean Weaver, 23 August, 2010.
This is the first of a series of blogs that Sean Weaver will write about Ekodo.
Eko (ecological) do (way) is the way of the eco-warrior. Ekodo turns environmentalism into a …
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 …
No land to be removed from Schedule 4
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 10:38 am
Press Release: New Zealand Government
No land to be removed from Schedule 4
Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee and Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson announced …
If Charles Darwin was alive, he’d be the first to campaign against the recent Government land mining proposals in New Zealand that will threaten the world’s most evolutionarily distinct amphibian, Archey’s Frog. But New Zealand …
Oh the relief! We’re just arriving at one of Christchurch’s most eco-friendly motels – CentrePoint On Colombo. After a day of travel with two children under three, we’re salivating at the thought of checking into …
Original Source: DoC
All the albatross chicks at Taiaroa Head have hatched without problems – the first time the Royal Albatross Colony has achieved a 100 percent success rate in 16 years.
But the difficult time is …
