Articles tagged with: positive news
By Sean Weaver
This West Coast Forest Story conveys my awkward attempts as a beginner of compassionate environmentalism, and shows how it can work when we might give it a try.
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 …
Food is my greatest love. You might think it would be my darling partner, my wonderful family or my long-dead cat. No, it’s food. I love nothing more than food. And not just the eating …
Marc Gunther tells a joke comparing corporate sustainability and teen sex – you can find his original article here. The joke goes:
“Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very …
I’m looking forward to the day when going on-line and working on Happyzine shall once again be a walk in the park because I own a healthy computer. At present I encounter an array of …
I’m excited to announce that I’ve secured a rooftop in central Auckland and planning for my first garden is underway!
We plan to position a number of macrocarpa planter boxes around the edges of the space. …
A piece of cake! – Struggling farmer’s wife who baked her way to a fortune
Bill Gates & Other Corporate Leaders Call For Renewable Push – American Energy Innovation Council promoting clean energy technologies
More wind …
Place: Organic Green Grocer
Corner of Tasman & Grove Street
Nelson
Time: 1 – 3pm Saturday 29th May
(Tomorrow!)
Price: $25 ($5 goes to the venue)
Participants will receive:
Tips and Information about how to be clear (and excited) about their core …
LETTING SPACE
“MAKING DREAMS REALTY”
Wellington’s first Free Store opens today at 38 Ghuznee St, supplied by local retailers keen to reduce waste and provide excess stock to the community for no cost.
Artist Kim Paton, creator of …
Ahhh blog number forty! It’s time to celebrate with lunch at the Mussel Inn. Come on! Let’s abandon our original plans, throw the gear in the car and take to the bush cafe!
The Mussel Inn …
(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 …
Pausing, I look up to see three warm-hearted women kneeling around a coffee table in front of me. Each gazes intently at a crystal in her hand. Each dangles her prism over the positive and …
(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
Today’s recommended music as you read this blog: Flashdance – What a Feeling (see below)
Aerobics. Not usually my cup of tea. Karate’s always …
(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
Recommended music while you read this blog: Talk Talk: Life’s What You Make It [see below]
I got talking to an elderly lady today, and everything …
Love. True love. OK I admit it! I’m a romantic, softy, idealist believer in this often talked about, often dreamed about, often sung about phenomena. Today I spoke to my business coach about the grand …
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 …
Thanks to some inspiration from a man named Mark Silver, who runs the business Heart of Business, my heart is leaping with plans – plans for Happyzine and for my community. The urge to give …
A delightful thing happened to me today. Did I happen across a pile of money lying upon the footpath? No, not today. Did a beaming Italian woman leap towards me waving free tickets to the …
This piece was sent in by Paul Taxi of the Peace Tree Walk…
A few years back me and good friend Alan De Boeck were stood upon the banks of the Motueka River in front of …
(While I raise my son and grow my good news website to a subscription base of 100,000)
Well, we’re all a buzz here in the small city of Nelson, New Zealand as my family prepare for …
“Serena, even before I read the bit about myself you had me in tears! Thanks, I really appreciate the reminder to be brave and keep asking ‘what’s next’? This morning I woke up, as usual, …
(…As I Raise My Son and Grow My Good News Website)
If there’s one good thing about a death in the family – it’s the family. I don’t know how you all deal with the inevitable …
Media release: Plunket
Mother’s Day, 9 May, is a great opportunity to celebrate the incredible women in our lives and let them know how much they mean to us.
An informal internet “chat” with mums revealed what …
…As I Raise My Son and Grow My Good News Website
An unexpected thing happened today. My groovy Grandmother Joyce died. Now this may seem like sad news, and I’m sure a few of us have …
I’ve just finished reading the highly popular ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert. Millions have enjoyed this book and for those who haven’t found it yet – it’s the story of a woman who came …
Come away with me. Let’s take off to the beach for the day. My website can take care of itself. We’ll load up the car with kids, food, the dog, two wahine (kiwi females) and …
Today. One woman. Alone. On the beach. Happy. I refer once more to the Tim Shadbolt line: ‘There’s something special about the place where the land meets the sea. …
Tonight I did something that both scared the bejeebees out of me and thrilled my socks off. Tonight, I accepted an invitation to ‘Samhain Rituals, Potluck & Goddess Party’ with a group of friends, here …
It’s not possible to bring a big dream to reality on your own without either doing a sub-optimal job or having some kind of breakdown along the way. That’s something my life coach Clem McGrath …
It’s nine-thirty in the A.M. We’ve been up since around seven on this moody, rainy day. Still yearning for more sleep (the plight of the parent), I initially lay on the couch for half an …
Our first rainy day – hot chocolates on tap; apple crumble; stories under a rug; DVDs on repeat; time outside under a see through roof feeling the rain and the wind and the thunder booming …
Best take it nice and slowly… – Prince Charles & the Slow Food movement
‘I Went on a Cash-Only Diet’ – My Life on the Suze Orman Plan – Sound advice to save money
West Coast …
For the last few weeks I’ve been facilitating a 22 day process of transformation, building community and starting a new mentoring program for women leaders of the Whole New World, and that’s why you haven’t …
Today I woke with the urge to be kind. To give. I felt inspired to surprise someone with something good, just for them. And I knew the person at the top of my list: my …
Tonight I attended the HANDS (Golden Bay’s complementary currency system, see Rebecca’s recent article here) Harvest Feast along with around 140 other people. I’ve got to be honest, I felt really emotional to be there, …
OK, so my passion for ‘eco’ doesn’t stop at fashion, but that’s pretty much where it began for me. I read an article a few years back on how fashion has become faster, clothes have …
So I’m nine days into my 365 days of Fun and Chillaxation (whilst raising my son and growing my site to a subscription base of 100,000, yeah!) and I’m looking back fondly at Week One’s …
Today I ran. Did I run for love? Yes. Did I run for the sheer joy of being able to run? Yes. Did I run for freedom, for free expression of my firey energy and …
Happiness. We all know it comes from within. Right? There’s a book I have called ‘The Astonishing Power of Emotions‘ by Abraham Hicks. It draws attention to the significance of our emotions, and …
TODAY’S GOOD NEWS →
Born to be a Green Guru – Founder of Earth 2000 started young
Thank you, Iceland. Now I can hear a thrush – Every cloud has a silver lining
Honesty appreciated – …
