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April 27th, 2009

Submitted by Charlotte on April 27, 2009 – 5:22 pm

KIA ORA KOUTOU – WELCOME TO THE HAPPYZINE COMMUNITY.

Editor’s Pick:

I love discovering happy, active elders and this week I want to draw attention to a blog by Kiwi Kevin Roberts – CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi. He’s posting on an incredibly inspiring elderly man who isn’t living up to the expectations of our society – in that he’s thriving at the age of 97. Physician Shigeaki Hinohara says that it’s important to honour our dreams, trust our emotions – going with what feels good, and ignore retirement – amongst other things. I think many of us know this stuff, but it’s great to be reminded, especially by someone who’s nudging 100.

Charlotte Squire

Good News Roundup

This is creativity at its best: a New Zealand artist has transformed bullets designed for battle into poppies of peace (Wairarapra Times-Age).

Tauranga eighteen year old Katie Hamilton must be feeling a sense of peace too as she has has become the youngest pilot in NZ to achieve her instructor’s rating (Bay of Plenty Times).

Back to creativity, here practicality is combined with expression: a power company’s previously black power

boxes

have been transformed

into works of art (Hawkes Bay Today).

And onto a story of friendship, these ladies have been penpals for seventy years – and they’ve never met (The Daily Post).

This author has something to be proud of – he attributes some of his recent world-wide success with his adventure story triligy to his early childhood in Whanganui (Wanganui Chronicle).

Doors are opening for children in Otago. A Ngai Tahu representative has blessed the land of a the first new school site in Otago for thirty years (Otago Daily Times).

Honesty lives on! These boys found a wallet with $1000 cash and handed it into to the police. See the bottom of this story for more great stories of honesty (Newsmail.au).

Peace pays off too. Two Suriname men employed peaceful tactics to defend their people’s territory against environmental degredation and have since had their efforts rewarded with world recognised awards (www.3news.co.nz).

Someone who doesn’t want to be recognised is making positve ripples in the States. An anonymous donor is giving away millions to American colleges (NY Times).

Could those college graduates spell the title of this lake? The spelling of the name of a lake has finally been corrected. It’s Lake

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagunga-maugg, in Webster, Massachusetts (AP).

Onto positive environmental news – scientists say they’re stunned at the recovery of coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies).

They may also be impressed with this building’s energy source: the worlds ‘greenest building’, located in Independence, Oregon, is set to run on biofuel (Domestic Fuel).

Here, religion is teaming up with environmentalism and the results are impressive: Muslim Preachers of Malaysia are using passages from the Koran to preach against poaching and protect endangered species with great results (World Wild Life Federation).

Ontario is flexing its muscles for a great cause – it’s launched the toughest rules in Canada against pesticides, regardless of international trade repercussions (The Canadian Press via The Star).

Finally, Italy has announced a 200 million Euro project to harvest the abundant canal algae of Venice and turn it into a fuel that will power the city by 2011 (Eco wordly).

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