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Localising Food Tour Aotearoa
Localising Food Tour Aotearoa
An inspiring team passionate about localising food are touring New Zealand right now, educating groups on local food resilience and running practical workshops to empower and motivate communities. They are documenting their …
Positive steps forward for New Zealand’s at-risk seabirds
A new government plan to help save New Zealand’s seabirds has been welcomed as a positive first step that will now need to be translated into “on the water gains” by global conservation organisation WWF.
Primary …
Seasons Greetings – from the Happyzine team!
It’s that special time of the year. Wishing you love, joy and peace, where ever you are.
Follow your bliss. Appreciate what you have. Be in the true gift of the now.
Love,
Charlotte and the Happyzine team …
John Sturgeon – Living Legend!
The ‘Do A Little, Gain A Lot’ community action spotlight this time turns to the fantastic ‘Living Legends’ project which you may have heard of during the Rugby World Cup, and again this year during …
Natural remedy: How to soothe your three year old’s ear ache by pressing points on their feet
By Shanti Burgess, Reflexologist and Herbalist
Q: My three year old, who is usually a very mellow toddler is hurting with an ear ache, is there anything I can do for her with reflexology to make …
NZ falcon wins Bird of the Year
The New Zealand falcon (karearea) has been crowned Bird of the Year in Forest & Bird’s eighth annual poll.
This year 10,292 votes were cast in this fiercely contested poll, with the karearea snatching 1261 votes …
Keep New Zealand Beautiful – reporting in from Dunedin
Hi Charlotte
I thought I’d write to you about our Keep NZ Beautiful Week (and Conservation Week) event down here in Dunedin.
The Coastal Clean-Up Dunedin went well on Sunday 16th September , the weather was great …
Kaumātua lead by example: ‘it’s never too late to learn’
Kaumātua proud to be NMIT students
Twelve Māori elders from Ngāti Koata iwi studying Te Reo Māori as part of Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology’s first “kaumātua class” are setting an example it’s never too …
Keep New Zealand Beautiful Launch Cleanup Week!
This week, we’ve launched Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week!
We know Kiwi’s all over the country care about the communities they live in, the streets of our towns, the water in our harbors, and even the …
Clearing out the old, and making way for the garden – by Joel Le Blanc
Right now I am making a garden. A small Eden in an otherwise urban backdrop, which hopefully will feed, heal and inspire me for the next year to come. But right now the garden is …
Cosy Container Love in Christchurch, New Zealand
By Christine Reitze, organiser of Container Love
Christchurch residents have created a giant ‘Container Cosy’ to brighten up the shipping containers they found in their neighbourhoods after the Christchurch quakes. Pieces of the Cosy were donated …
Smart Packaging workshop for Wellington businesses
8th May 2012
Wanaka Wastebusters
Smart Packaging workshop for Wellington businesses
Wanaka Wastebusters will be running two free Smart Packaging Business Workshops in Wellington on Thursday 10th May.
The workshops will help businesses add value to their brand by …
Wanaka Wastebuster’s new advice service targets packaging waste
Advice service targets packaging waste – Wanaka Wastebusters
Packaging waste figures released this week by the Packaging Council show that a new Smartpackaging Advice service for businesses launched today is timely and needed.
Each New Zealander throws …
Sinbad Sanctuary project reaping hugely positive results
Media release from Southern Discoveries
21 March 2012
Sinbad Gully sponsorship hugely rewarding
An award-winning environmental conservation project in a World Heritage Area is continuing to demonstrate “uplifting and positive” results half-way through the first stage of …
I’m on a mission to establish Good News Reporters in Kiwi towns – can you do stuff I can’t?
Happyzine founder and Editor Charlotte Squire shares the vision, and puts forward the request for volunteer help to set up local systems for the Happyzine Kiwi Local Good News project.
Ok, it’s time to front up.
Again.
There’s …
Emerging Designer finalists embrace the green
Media Release: Wednesday 18 January 2012
iD reveals 2012 Emerging Designer finalists
Fashion history will be created and careers launched when the world’s hot new fashion talent show their collections at the 8th annual iD International …
For the love of my brother – David Visser rides from Bluff to Cape Reinga to raise funds for his big bro
For the love of my Brother, Wilf
My name is David Visser, and I’m from Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. My elder brother Wilf is living with a rare and fatal motor neurone disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …
Vote for Nature – Forest and Bird
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 …
Mount Eden Village People: Community Celebration
Mount Eden Village People
It is nearly the end of the year and the 27th of November is our yearly community get-together, celebrating our path to a sustainable Mt Eden. This year we are inviting the …
Stage Two of the New Zealand White Roofs Project Kicks Off – Help it Grow!
Progress report from ian Montangees – Founder of the NZ White Roofs Project
I am preparing to begin Stage 2 of the project to start towards the end of September, which will get much more …
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