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Raw food on a budget – by Sarah Lea, Raw Foodie

July 31, 2012 – 11:28 am |

The general assumption that I live with abundance at my door is a correct one. However, I do go about creating this abundance in different ways. I don’t go out to work. Inspired by my …

Three simple ways to be present

July 29, 2012 – 10:38 pm | One Comment

Being present in your everyday actions seems to be a key ingredient for good mental and physical well-being. Here are three ways for you to practice being more present – rather than off thinking about …

Keep New Zealand Beautiful and Happyzine team up to take a fresh look at Aotearoa

July 29, 2012 – 10:29 pm |

Comment from Sam Rye, spokesperson for Keep New Zealand Beautiful:
Imagine a New Zealand free of litter, with thriving communities, where we restore and conserve our beautiful environment.
How do you think we will get there?
Keep New …

Green Product Review: Natural Cream Deodorant – Lavender

July 29, 2012 – 10:04 pm |

We have a deodorant revolution going on here.  And I don’t mean that in an infomercial tone of voice.  This is Happyzine.  I mean it.
I’m holding a 20 ml container of totally natural, aluminium free …

Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word

July 27, 2012 – 12:32 pm |

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
There’s been ‘Shaking’ and there’s been “Quaking’ … kind of lends itself to poetry, right?
Actually, there has been something of a gentle ban on earthquake doggerel at the Catalyst open-mic poetry …

Slow travel: Winter getaway to Te Hapu, Golden Bay

July 27, 2012 – 12:13 pm |

By Charlotte Squire
Local Good News/Golden Bay
Do you feel like you have enough time? It’s the one thing we all have the same amount of. Yet not all of us feel the same way about it. …

Like Minds Wellington Film Comp encourages people to ‘be there and stay involved with people experiencing mental illness’

July 26, 2012 – 1:17 pm |

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release
 
Be There and Stay Involved!
Buoyant from the success of last year’s competition, Kites Trust is doing it all over again and holding the Like Minds Wellington Film Competition 2012.  Like Minds, …

Herb Profile: Comfrey – a force to be reckoned with!

July 26, 2012 – 1:10 pm |

COMFREY Symphytum officinale

Comfrey was first brought to my attention after the birth of my son more than thirty years ago. My domiciliary midwife, the wonderful Joan Donnelly was a staunch advocate of eating weeds and …

Conference of good ideas – Project Lyttelton

July 25, 2012 – 1:48 pm |

Project Lyttelton to host conference to facilitate sharing of ideas and enable communities to support one another
4th August will see community leaders and not for profit managers from across the region come together at Living …

Music profile: Matiu Te Huki ‘Let your light shine’

July 22, 2012 – 3:51 pm | One Comment

Check out this soulful photo of Matiu Te Huki using his powerful gift for onstage performance, singing and songwriting.  The man’s worth checking out, if you haven’t already discovered him.
What I love most about Matiu’s …

Raw food: Finding protein everywhere!

July 22, 2012 – 2:52 pm | 3 Comments

By raw foodie – Sarah Lea – search on Sarah’s name to find more raw food blogs, or check out her Facebook page.

Where do I get my protein from? The same place as gorillas, giraffes, …

Sean Weaver – secretly saving rainforests from Golden Bay, New Zealand

July 20, 2012 – 1:28 pm | 2 Comments

By Charlotte Squire

Local Good News/Golden Bay
Ever dreamed of moving to the country, raising the kids to in a small, vibrant community, and growing the quintessential healthy organic garden? Many of us Happyzine readers have had …

Christchurch: Garden City 2.0 – taking ownership from the flaxroots up

July 20, 2012 – 10:02 am | 2 Comments

by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
How about we do the Garden City differently this time around?
Alongside many of the changes wrought by the Christchurch earthquakes, there has been a seizing of opportunities to rethink the ways …

Marlborough District Council open to adopting the White Roofs project

July 20, 2012 – 9:34 am |

Ever wonder how to get your local council on board with your green dreams?  Submitting to your Annual Long Term Plan is one way to go about it.
Marlborough resident Russell Hopkins was looking for a …

New documentary presents hope and promise for NZ kauri forests

July 19, 2012 – 3:13 pm |

Press Release – Song of the Kauri, directed and produced by Mathurin Molgat
19.07.2012
New documentary presents hope and promise for NZ kauri forests – World Premiere
Song of the Kauri, a documentary to premiere at the 2012 …

Believing in the Green: Ian Montanjees’s small, but significant ‘moments’ as he runs the NZ White Roofs project

July 19, 2012 – 12:42 pm |

For all the green dreamers out there …

Ian Montanjees is developing the New Zealand White Roofs project.  Says Ian: “White Roofs is a simple idea offering one of the fastest and lowest cost ways of …

Kiwi kids take action to save Kauri trees

July 18, 2012 – 10:28 pm |

Contact: Simon Grant
Ph: (09) 838 7904
Mob: 021 0298 1958
Email: [email protected]
KIDS FIGHT TO SAVE KAURI
Imagine kauri groves springing up on school grounds all over urbanised Auckland. If Simon Grant from Community Waitakere Charitable Trust has his …

Call for Mokihinui River and catchment to be added to Kahurangi National Park.

July 17, 2012 – 5:33 pm | 2 Comments

Forest & Bird media release for immediate use
 
 
Forest & Bird welcomes Mokihinui call
 
Forest & Bird today welcomed the announcement by the West Coast Tai Poutini Conservation Board of its support for the Mokihinui River …

Raw Food: Loosing weight and gaining energy – by Sarah Lea

July 16, 2012 – 2:02 pm | 2 Comments

The discovery that I was fat was alarming. My body weight had snuck up on me without me seeing the big picture. Of course I was aware I had a fat and thin wardrobe…some days …

Support the completion of Our Green Roadie on PledgeMe

July 14, 2012 – 3:05 pm |

Support Our Green Roadie on Pledge Me
We’re a little film team, award-winning filmmaker Emma Heke and her son Connor,
Making a big documentary, Our Green Roadie,
Set to inspire huge change, encouraging us to live our dreams …

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