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Talofa,
Check out this awesome opportunity for your young people – its free, its in Lower Hutt and there will be food.
Wanting to develop your young person, mentee, school leader further, by up skilling them?
Do you …
The Film Competition – Call for Entries!
Have you got an inspiring story to tell? Could you make a film about young Kiwis doing great stuff – making a difference in their community?! Then …
I live in an idyllic valley just 45 minutes drive north of Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand. This six acres I call home has been my turangawaewae or standing place for 25 years …
Find out how to use your raw potential, your key strengths and those skills you’ve accumulated to create your green dreams.
Meet once a week at 6pm, for ninety minutes, online, from anywhere in the world, …
New Zealand has some serious issues.
New Zealand has a drinking culture that glorifies alcoholism and justifies behaviours that would otherwise be unacceptable.
New Zealand has inequality that eats at the very core …
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 …
As you may or may not know I’m in a way-cool rock band. It was a total girlie band, but now a big hearted man named David has joined us for a while too – …
I’ve got a new favorite movie: The Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey. Yes Yes Yes! I hoped this movie might shake things up a little for me. I hoped it might remind me to get …
Right! Sweet moment of the day occurred during the morning run. I was out with my boy and my dog and we ran down a street that gave us a panoramic view of the Kahurangi …
A short note on international climate change negotiations in relation to the US mid term election result:
Why is it that packing always takes ten times as long as I think it will? It was only for three nights over the Takaka Hill (other wise known as ‘The Hill’) but I immediately …
I’ve had a really busy day perfecting and sending out the Wild Energy press release to a long list of web sites and media people world wide who I hope will be open to publishing …
By Charlotte Squire – Editor and Founder of www.happyzine.co.nz
Well the title pretty much says it all.
Happyzine’s going global – because the whole world needs good news. And we need lots of it.
I am looking for …
I’m running down the street wearing a knee length floral dress and my most fabbo, funky sheepskin lined boots. My hair is streaming out behind me. My handbag sits light and unnoticed on my hip. …
Ok, I’m keeping it brief today. I’m feeling very excited to introduce this piece of writing to you. You have got to check out another positive writing graduate’s first ever article on Happyzine: Trowel Power. …
I write this blog scrunched forward, squinting at the screen in my contact-lenseless state. It’s been a chaotic day of family and animals, kind of exhausting, and heart-filling, all at once. So first – here’s …
I heard the story of these guys a few weeks ago on the National Programme and thought they sounded pretty cool. They’re very busy ‘going green’ and are even hoping they’re the most sustainable vineyard …
While some days it doesn’t seem as if I achieve anything (as the mother of this good news website, plus one gorgeous three year old and one Golden Retriever), actually I do. Even today, as …
The good news is I’m ninety percent of the way through the second draft of my e-book. I read back over it today and enjoyed it, I hope I’m not the only one! Now let’s …
Hikurangi Foundation
Media statement
For release: 19 August 2010
Residents have their say on “Taxi-bus”
Warkworth residents are being surveyed on a Taxi-bus service to see if this could be a solution to the lack of public transport in …
The house I live in, which I’m renting, brings me great pleasure. It has everything I need and more. It has an eager little heat-pump, which, at one press delivers me enough warmth to fill …
I don’t know if this makes for boring reading, but so many good moments happened today that it’s hard to know which one to tell you about. Why on earth would this be boring? I …
MEDIA RELEASE
New Zealand Deaf Foundation
We need to be heard
The National Foundation for the Deaf wants to give people who are hearing impaired and deaf the opportunity to be heard by their Members of Parliament. NFD …
One of the very first pages in this book says “This book is dedicated to the dreamers, especially those who have learned how to make their dreams a reality”.
Perfect for me. I’m big into the whole …
Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed for Fresh FM by the Golden Bay-famous Grant Knowles. Grant is a local drum maker – he founded Tribull Drums – where he makes, repairs, and teaches people …
Here in Aotearoa/New Zealand we’re in the middle of Matariki, which also coincides with winter-solstice. It’s the ‘dead of winter’. It’s the time to nestle inside with the heat pumping and a good bowl of …
Officially, I am now a father, and perhaps I’m becoming an older, more experienced father. I do have 16 months of daily training. Nothing actually prepares or gives you the experience you need, until you …
(As I raise my child and grow my good news website)
I see that Stuff has reported on the squillionce study to report on the health giving effects of chocolate consumption. Those of us that regularly …
(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
Here’s some music to listen to while you read this blog.
Tina Bridgman. If you haven’t heard of her, you will soon. Tonight I fare-welled her, …
(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
[I am loving writing this blog. It’s a purely self indulgent act. I love that I’m thirty seven blogs into three hundred and sixty …
Tonight as I write this it’s late, it’s dark, it’s been pouring for days, the Takaka Rivers swollen, many are experiencing cabin fever, and I’m rather tired. The parents out there will understand, I’ve …
The following story to me is a prime example of how intention and collaboration work.
Over three years ago I moved to Whangaparaoa and joined an arts group called The Arts Foum Inc.( TAFI). The intention …
Photo: By Martin Kingsley
The New Zealand Herald reported that a Good Samaritan Aussie post worker has handed in a parcel containing Australian $100, 000 dollars. “Police have praised an Australia Post worker who handed in …
