Article Archive for March 2011
WWF Urges Kiwis to Get Creative for a Good Cause
Ocean:Views competition deadline almost here
Kiwis have just two weeks to submit their creative entry to WWF-New Zealand’s Ocean:Views competition, and WWF is calling on New Zealanders across the country to dive into …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 337 – Francisca Griffin’s Food for Thought
I’m loving these videos of Kiwi change-makers. Check out Dunedin based Naturopath Francisca Griffin talking about ‘happiness’ to the Regeneration crew as they passed through Dunedin. She offers food for thought (pun initially unintended, though …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 336 – Bliss on a Beach
Most amazing moment today: following in the footsteps of my son as he headed determinedly towards the incoming tide, at sunset. His three year old legs were carrying him along at a solid pace. We …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 335 – Stone Arrow Jewellery
I just thought I’d do a little plug for my friend Nick Feint’s amazing jewellery because he just posted a link to it on facebook and I was enthralled. Nick lives at and runs Stone …
2011 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival – Tickets on Sale Now!
2011 AUCKLAND WRITERS & READERS FESTIVAL
11 – 15 MAY | AOTEA CENTRE, THE EDGE® | www.WRITERSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ
ALL TICKETS ON SALE
PRESS RELEASE: 28 MARCH 2011
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PROGRAMME AVAILABLE
We are proud to announce the 2011 programme is complete and …
Call Goes Out to Green Champions of Australia
Despite a meteoric rise in products and services catering to sustainable development, there has been limited recognition for the growing business community of sustainability professionals so far.
That changes today (29 March 2011).
Australia’s fastest growing green …
Australia’s EnviroDevelopment Launches First Set of National Certification Standards
Australia’s fastest growing green development rating system, EnviroDevelopment, celebrates another milestone this week with the release of its first set of national certification standards.
Since its launch in Queensland in 2006, EnviroDevelopment has certified over 30 …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 334 – Helping to Support the Emergence of the Green Generation
Today I’ve been excitedly organizing and promoting two green dream courses I’m preparing to run over the next few months. One’s called “How to pin-point, develop, and begin the career of your green dreams” and …
NZ Companies Shine in Packaging Awards
Small and medium-sized New Zealand businesses have dominated the shortlist of eight products for the Unpackit Best Packaging Awards, released today at 5pm.
In contrast, the eight Worst Packaging Awards finalists are all large …
The ReGeneration Roadie Blog #3
The Colac Bay Youth Jam – photo by Guy Ryan
This week the ReGeneration roadtrip crew hit the South of the South through Wanaka, Queenstown, Te Anau, Riverton and Invercargill. I am constantly surprised by the …
Improving Our Communication: ‘Pause and Resource’ by LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Because great communication is going to save the planet
Pause and Resource by LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Resourcing, in the way I am using the term, means reconnecting to your source of grounding, nourishment, and wholeness.
Recently a student told …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 333 – Chick Lit Is My Choc Lit
Autumn is making its moods known here in Aotearoa and today in Golden Bay, we were blessed with a cosy, rainy day. It was the kind of Sunday that invites baking, hot chocolates, and lying …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 332 – Earthhour, Neighbours Day and an Urban Permaculture Paradise
Earth hour. I find it nearly as exciting as New Years Eve. So tonight we dutifully sat there examining each other by candle light and did indeed feel obliged to make a few earth hour …
New Zealanders Lead Global Earth Hour Community in Annual ‘Lights Out for the Planet’ event, and Go Beyond the Hour
26 March 2011
Tonight New Zealanders led the global Earth Hour ‘lights out for the planet event’, symbolically switching off lights at 8.30pm for one hour, to show their commitment to protecting the …
WWF Launches Positive Message About New Zealand’s Oceans
“New Zealand begins with sea and ends with sea. Understand this and you begin to comprehend New Zealand and the New Zealander” – Author Maurice Shadbolt
WWF-New Zealand is getting creative to help New …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 331 – What Are Your Ocean Views?
Check out this short You Tube video featuring some ocean workers sharing their ‘ocean views’. These people make some great points about this sacred aspect of life on planet yeart. Here in New Zealand the …
Your Neighbours Day Check List!
Kia ora tatou, hello all
Well it’s this weekend! Thanks to lots of wonderful participation and support from around NZ, Neighbours Day Aotearoa is looking like a busy weekend from Kaitaia to Invercargill. …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 330 – Getting Ready for Neighbours Day Aotearoa
Today, as promised to Tania Austin – the coordinator of Neighbour’s Day – I dutifully crossed the road and had a yarn with Paul Woodward (he who happens to have just rocked walled his long, …
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