Article Archive for June 2010
Six In the City
If you live in the ‘wops’ you’re lucky as you can keep as many chooks as you wish. Don’t despair the rest of use who live cheek by jowl in urbania, can still keep some …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#76 – Operation Food-Roster Post-Birth – One Perk of Having Two Weeks Worth of Friends
There’s a new baby in the hood and my whole community are rippling with excitement about it. Mostly, I found out about this on Facebook. Which is quite funny. We actually do talk to each other …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#75 – Eye Love You: An Experiment in Human Playfulness and Kindness
Today someone, who would prefer to remain anomomous, emailed me a link to a project he’s been working on called ‘Eye Love You’. You have got to check this out. The purpose of the Eye …
Love the Bees – Beekeeping Thoughts Over the Winter Months
For the hobbyist beekeeper, the winter months tend to be a time to reflect, read and maybe come up with a brilliant idea or two! I am not very good on the `ideas` front, but …
Little Things Make a Huge Difference … by Yvonne McLaren
Homelessness and generally people in need are always one of those things where we all want to do something. Most people in New Zealand are basically pretty decent people. When disaster strikes, kiwis roll up …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#74 – Grant Knowles of Tribull Drums
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 …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#73 – Zazen Meditation: Useful
Today (Sunday) the sun beamed it’s warmth into the lives of the good citisens of Golden Bay. It found us, even if had to filter slyly through well-shut curtains, or creep beneath closed doors. And mesmerized, we stepped …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#72 – The Manly Bouquet:A Little Gem
Have you ever been at odds about what to get that guy who has everything for his birthday? Perhaps you’re running a little low on time or money, yet you really want to offer some …
Chickens are the “New Black” in the ‘Burbs
Why Chickens?
Chickens are the new black in Green Urban Living. Once you have read the following I’m sure you will be racing out to get your own feathery flock!
Tasty, Rich, Nutritious Eggs
As Kiwis we love …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#71 – The Ongoing Gollywood Experience
Gollywood – what do you think? It’s the Golden Bay version of Bollywood (just in case you didn’t figure that out). So here we are, mid-winter, in a small rural community, in New Zealand, learning …
Hastings and New Plymouth to Receive $7 million Boost for Cycling and Walking
Media release from Cycling Advocates’ Network, www.can.org.nz
Friday 25 June 2010
Hastings and New Plymouth will benefit from a $7 million Model Communities project aimed at getting more people cycling and walking.
Cycling groups welcomed the news.
“Everyone wins …
Get Present in Under Five Seconds!
Thats what The Joyologist says can happen when you use the art of improv to get present!!
When you are present you are not stressed and you are in a place of peace and acceptance of …
Great Fathers – A Free, Special DVD Just for New Dads
How about this story. A guy – lets call him Dave – is reading some material by a NZ pediatrician and a US economist, and is so stunned by the material he resolved to tell …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#70 – Introducing the Green Urban Living kiwi website
Don’t you love finding people who dream exciting green dreams and make them happen? Today I ‘met’ Janet Luke. This is how she introduced herself to me via email:
“I am a Landscape Architect, Environmental Planner, Permaculturalist and …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#69 – Yipee! And all the National Parks Lived Happily Ever After…
I see that the NZ Green Party have been running a campaignto ‘save our treasured places’, namely our national parks. My son’s named after the Kahurangi National Park. I love that park. It looms green and …
Dream2Reality and Emily Harris: yMedia Challenge 2010
I have no graphic design talent and the idea of me creating my own website is laughable. My skills deficiency means that since embarking on my rooftop gardens project and founding Urban Pantry I’ve been …
Reverse-in Parking Safer for Drivers, Passengers, Pedestrians and Cyclists
Cycling Advocates’ Network (CAN) says reverse-in parking is better for people in cars and pedestrians as well as cyclists.
CAN spokesperson, Anne FitzSimon, applauds New Zealand Transport Agency support for reverse-in parking.
“Reverse-in parking improves the driver’s …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#68 – Sweet Relief
I’m sitting outside in the sunshine, leaning against a museum, and I can’t move. Because I’ve stopped. Finally. To rest. Here in the warmth. And my body feels as if it’s falling, slowly, like molasses, so accustomed it is to moving, …
Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in Science – Thinking Beyond the Lab Coat
‘On the edge – inspirational women in science’ breakfast event in Dunedin
As part of the 2010 New Zealand International Science Festival
Wondering where a career in science could take you? A breakfast event to inspire the …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#67 – Heading into the Heart of Winter Solstice
Oh oh! How exciting! In this very moment, as the darkness settles in here in Aotearoa we are heading into the longest night of the year. Winter Solstice is upon us aka ‘mid-winter’. Some call …
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