Localising Food Tour Aotearoa

Choppy waters usually preferred!

Waka Ama are sport and casual recreation for all ages, for both men and women, its a whanau sport that has been growing in numbers across Aotearoa. At the moment you may be able to …

Youth Action for the environment by Steve Carter

Local Good News/Christchurch
Need a green army of young, motivated volunteers to assist in the recovery and regeneration of post-earthquake Christchurch? Need a team of energetic workers to boost
your greening or conservation project?
Then look no further.
Launched …

Messing About On The River

By Steve Carter
Spring has sprung and it signals the end of what many have described as our toughest winter.
Aftershocks may be decreasing in frequency and intensity but it is now that the tiredness has begun …

Cycle-share schemes for the next generation

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
It’s a city seemingly made for cycling, so why isn’t there a world-class cycling infrastructure?
 
Whatever the reasons might be, there’s plenty of voices clamouring for Christchurch to be rebuilt as a …

Rena: One year on. New WWF funds for penguins and wetlands

WWF-New Zealand media release – for immediate release
WWF-New Zealand is marking next week’s first anniversary of the Rena shipping disaster by announcing its support for two important projects to help with the continuing work to …

Christchurch: The little organic shop the community bought

by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
What do you do if you are told the shop you are managing is to be put up for sale? Well, you convince your whole town to chip in to buy …

Christchurch: A month of mural painting

By Steve Carter
It’s fun to watch ideas seed a whole new chain of creativity.
After the first ‘gap’ project in New Brighton saw the painting of a large mural on the exposed wall of a building …

Christchurch: The extraordinary emerging community, two years on …

Reflections on September 4th
by Steve Carter
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by …

Greening the Rubble: Planting the seeds of freedom – by Steve Carter

“It’s a terrific thing to be involved in … I feel like it’s kind of a dream job really.”
It’s always so refreshing to hear people express such passion for their work. On a beautiful, sunny …

Christchurch: A Hub For Healthy Youth Development

by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
Time passing is such a relative thing.
Sometimes, the last year feels like the longest ever … and then something happens to change one’s perspective to thinking time has fair raced …

Christchurch: A food revolution from the ground up

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
Growing a better future.
That’s how the ‘Garden To Table’ website describes what their scheme aims to achieve.  Rooted in the work of the Australian cook Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Program, the …

Winter stillness in Golden Bay – Lazy days at a Paton’s Rock bach

By Charlotte Squire
Local Good News/Golden Bay
You are cordially invited to play Beatles ‘soundtrack’ whilst reading

Exciting!  We’re going on holiday!  Admittedly we’re not going far, and we only have twenty four hours, but it’s a holiday …

Christchurch: Flourish – the conference about thriving – by Steve Carter

A conference with a flourish
by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
What is it to really flourish?
Obviously, the answer to such a question is multifaceted and complex, so anyone organising a conference on the subject needs to be …

Christchurch: No Gallery Required

Local Good News/Christchurch
Steve Carter
“Wow”, you might well think as you see another wall adorned with a new work of art, “What is that?”
Wandering around Christchurch these days is like taking a stroll among the pieces …

Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
There’s been ‘Shaking’ and there’s been “Quaking’ … kind of lends itself to poetry, right?
Actually, there has been something of a gentle ban on earthquake doggerel at the Catalyst open-mic poetry …

Slow travel: Winter getaway to Te Hapu, Golden Bay

By Charlotte Squire
Local Good News/Golden Bay
Do you feel like you have enough time? It’s the one thing we all have the same amount of. Yet not all of us feel the same way about it. …

Sean Weaver – secretly saving rainforests from Golden Bay, New Zealand

By Charlotte Squire

Local Good News/Golden Bay
Ever dreamed of moving to the country, raising the kids to in a small, vibrant community, and growing the quintessential healthy organic garden? Many of us Happyzine readers have had …

Christchurch: Garden City 2.0 – taking ownership from the flaxroots up

by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
How about we do the Garden City differently this time around?
Alongside many of the changes wrought by the Christchurch earthquakes, there has been a seizing of opportunities to rethink the ways …

Keeping old places alive in Christchurch

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
How do we move confidently around our towns and cities? We orient ourselves, mostly without even realising it, by visual cues, by snapshots of recognition in the known environment.
I have heard …

Raw dreaming – the story of Sarah Lea’s migration of faith to Golden Bay

Local Good News/Golden Bay
By Charlotte Squire

Meet Sarah Lea – mother of three, she also happens to be the Happyzine raw food writer. Sarah recently underwent a significant lifestyle change. She moved to Golden Bay with …