Article Archive for August 2010
Yealands Estate Wines Looking for ‘Art on a Bottle’
Media Release
31 August 2010
Yealands Estate Wines looking for ‘Art on a Bottle’
Sponsors of the Yealands Estate Marlborough Art Gallery – Yealands Estate Wines and The Marlborough Art Society would like to announce the first year …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#134 – Check out Yealands, Greenist Vineyard in NZ?
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 …
Seeing the Trees for the Wood
I find something inherently comforting about being surrounded by wood. As I look around our little 1940’s cottage I realise how much of nature’s cloak we’ve drawn around us; our wood framed weatherboard house has …
Walking on the Wild Side Does Have its Benefits
Your eyes are feasting on an array of delicate blooms with their own artists palette of shades and immeasurable incalculable infinity of geometric designs.
How does this make you feel?
Relaxed, senses sated?
This is the powerful effect …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#133 – Life is Sweet and Precious
Ok, so today’s great moment was: standing in the kitchen making really bad, highly immature jokes with my flatmate and laughing uncontrollably. There were many more sweet moments today, such as completing another Positive Writing …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#132 – Bioneers – Revolution from the Heart of Nature
I listen in each week to Bioneers – which is an ass-kickingly brilliant positive radio show that’s broad-casted regularly on Fresh FM. Yes indeed, it truly rocks. Here’s the link to their radio shows. They …
Calling All Passionate Business Owners – Feeling the Need to Take Control of Your Accounts?
Gaibrielle Syben of www.myva.co.nz is offering an exclusive 20% discount this month only, to Happyzine subscribers only, who would like some help to smooth out their accounts.
It can be a challenge to …
An Excerpt from the Wholefoods Handbook – ‘Chickpeas’
Chickpeas (Garbanzos)
Chickpeas, native to Asia, are a key ingredient in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cookery. They’re tan and shaped like a small hazelnut. Chickpeas contain more iron than other legumes and are a good source of unsaturated fats. …
Planting the Seed
by Claire Chateau
“And after we get the Gold Award…what do we do?”
This was one of the burning questions asked by Alex, eight, last week, as he was reflecting upon the eco-journey of his school, together …
Five Good Reasons to Get Out of Bed in the Week-End to go to the Growers Market
by Claire Chateau
Like me, you are probably an expert at finding reasons why you are not going to make it to the early local growers market at the week-end. Busy week at work (“all the …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#131 – Grand Landscape Design
I’m just dashing off to watch Grand Landscape Designs on a friend’s TV. Yes! Having sworn off TV for a year (at our house) I’m finding myself lusting after it’s many luscious programmes elsewhere! There’s …
Living, Growing Roofs Beginning to Sprout in Aotearoa
By Hannah Spyksma
Aucklander Robyn Simcock is renovating her garage. As is, it is slightly sunken into the ground so that the roof is only a metre above the pavement. She has pumice, wild flowers, succulents …
From Water Capture to Birthing into Water
Last week I chatted merrily about water conservation, about my dreams to capture more and how to put it to use. A very keen part of the permaculture process. Another principle of permaculture …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#130 – She Sleeps So That the Good Can Continue
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 …
Eco Labels and the Right Information Have Mass Market Appeal
Media Release
Eco labels and the right information have mass market appeal
Sellers using eco-labels backed with the right information could make as many as 85% of New Zealanders more likely to buy a product.
Huge numbers …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#130 – E-book progress
The good news is that last night, late last night, I finished the second draft of my e-book. The title of my e-book is ‘Ten ways to chillax and have fun as you contribute to …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#129 – Ro and Joanna – Two Grandparents of Permaculture
Come away with me, today we’re going to visit Ro and Joanna Piekarski, of Pohara Valley, Golden Bay. Wear your gumboots, because come the end of our time there it will rain. And you can …
Audio to Visual – NZ Musicians Help Kiwi Youth
Youthline Press Release
From audio to visual – NZ musicians help Kiwi youth
Hollie Smith, Julia Deans and Riki Gooch have more than just Kiwi music in common.
Along with 13 other local musicians, they’re switching mediums to …
Kiwi Council Searching for Greenest Street
Sustainable Communities
Council searching for Green Street
New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast District Council has announced a competition to find Kāpiti’s Greenest Street. Commencing in October, the competition is being touted as an opportunity for neighbours to get …
Introducing Ekodo – Eko (ecological) do (way).
By Sean Weaver, 23 August, 2010.
This is the first of a series of blogs that Sean Weaver will write about Ekodo.
Eko (ecological) do (way) is the way of the eco-warrior. Ekodo turns environmentalism into a …
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