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Pure, Golden Wax …
One of the wonderful things about owning a TopBar hive full of industrious bees, is the abundance of beautiful, clean wax you have left after draining all the honey out. It is so much nicer …
Situations Vacant: Writers Wanted from Every Kiwi Town!
Optimistic Writers!
We want you.
www.happyzine.co.nz is currently looking for volunteer Good News Reporters to represent all the towns of New Zealand.
We want your region’s most positive and inspiring news, once a week.
Skills Required for the Job …
Savasana (Corpse pose)
At a first glance you seem to be lying on the floor. Not much to it, right? Turns out savasana is a deceptively involved pose. Rather than relying on your strength or flexibility, instead you …
Herb Scentsations
Did you know lavender can help in the treatment of dandruff? Or that thyme is said to help cure that dreaded ‘one too many’ hangover? Herbs can do so much more than just flavour stews …
Developing Our Gifts
I’m warming up to the theme of how we discover and deliver our gifts. Last time I pointed to the possibility that we don’t have to do anything, we just have to show up and …
Green Love: Happyzine’s Top Seven Recommended Gifts of Love
Feeling the love? Express it this Valentine’s Day with a lush gift. Hannah Campbell has searched high, sideways and low for the very best in unique and truly sustainably produced Valentine’s Day offerings. Relax, we’ve …
View From Mars – Good News from Around the World
It is always good to hear about people empowering themselves and their environments. Check out this story from from IPS about “Indigenous and rural women from southern Tolima, a province located in the heart of …
The Honey Bee Revival – TopBar Hives
I am always on the lookout for kinder, more sustainable ways of beekeeping, I believe TopBar hives are the way to go for people keen on keeping bees in a more natural environment.
I first read …
View From Mars
We have a lot to learn from our youth. From Stuff – Down in Southland, youth are leading the way by getting into sustainable transport – using a travel card, where they get a stamp …
Coming Home – An Ex-Pat Canadian Prepares to Land in Aotearoa
When people ask me about my life I give them a brief chronological description of how I studied in Southern Ontario, moved to Vancouver to continue studying and then left Canada to travel and that’s …
Honey Time
This time of the year if the weather has been kind, is the time to collect honey from your hive. Hopefully the bees have been busy doing what they do best and bringing back plenty …
View from Mars
Good news that Bolivian President Eva Morales is inviting indigenous peoples, social movements, environmentalists and scientists as well as governments ”who want to work with their people” to an alternative climate conference in Cochabamba on …
Bee Keeping – Reclaiming the Ancient Craft
You Keep What??
This is the question I have had asked of me many times since I first put the idea of keeping bees out there. Some of the folks were finally convinced that …
Tauranga’s Positive Impact Upon Cambodia
Denise Arnold has returned from Cambodia certain the work of a Tauranga-based trust established 18 months ago is having a positive impact on the lives of children and their families and communities.
She recently took 10 …
Dreaming the BioSphere – the book is here
Q: What happens when a bunch of scientists and experimental actors head out to the desert to build a glass-sealed, lush wilderness world, complete with miniature rainforest, ocean, desert, organic farm, and plants from all …
100 Ways to Naturally Boost Your Immune System – Tips 20 – 26 – By Herbalist Malcolm K. Harker – MHD
NATURAL WAY
with Malcolm K. Harker MHD
‘Natural Ways to Boost Your Immunity’
There are prime natural substances Nature provides that are effective in controlling pathogens and poisons in ways that antibiotics cannot. This is good news in …
Samoan student’s artwork for Christmas cards
Three students from Samoa will have their art work on thousands of Christmas Cards that will be sold in Wellington to raise funds for Save the Children and the Samoan Tsunami .
Samoan Student’s …
Farm Environment Awards attract wide range
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Thursday, 26 November 2009, 12:33 pm
Press Release: Ballance Farm Environment awards
Media Release – November 26, 2009.
Ballance Farm Environment Awards attract a wide range of entries.
The Ballance Farm Environment Awards have attracted a strong range of …
A veggie-led backyard revolution… Caro and Co.
There’s a quiet revolution going on in the suburban backyards of Australia. Rather than sitting back and admiring our perfectly manicured “outside rooms”, gazing lovingly at our mondo grass, perfectly coiffed hedges of murraya, buxus …
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