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Three Car Free Days Planned in Response to the Tauranga Oil Spill, Over the Next Three Months
Press release: Happyzine
Could you forget fossil fueled transport for one day?
This Sunday marks the first of Three Car Free …
Oh my goodness. 365 days of blogging (I forgot two days, and may have in fact repeated a few days, but hey, here’s to being human). And so here I am on the final day.
Let’s …
I’ve decided it’s time for some fly-bys of the blog action over the past year. Here are three random blogs I re-discovered and felt affection for:
Here’s one blog about keeping the faith and believing in …
Rather than choosing one answer to New Zealand’s increasing demand for power, a group of energy experts on the judges panel for the green energy design challenge ‘Wild Energy’ have ruled that a cluster of …
A Kiwi good-news website editor says New Zealand is one of the last green frontiers and is inviting people, world-wide, to help Kiwis keep it that way by suggesting the greenest ways to power …
Today I found myself standing at the police station watching a nice police man demonstrate all the toys on his special vest – including the pepper spray and a flicky wacky stick thing. He spoke …
Wild Energy Green Design Challenge Attracts New Zealand’s Energy Experts as Judges.
Have you got a half finished green design project in your back yard? Perhaps you have a fully functioning power saving invention already …
It should be a “no brainer”…. shouldn’t it? If you save energy at work, your operating costs reduce. When your costs reduce, you either make bigger profits, or you can be more cost competitive in …
Jules Verne and I have nothing in common.
My first circumnavigation of the world took over 10 years to complete. Traveling into the sunset, If I’d been going about it in a straight forward fashion that’d …
Wild Energy – a green energy design competition intended to spark more creativity, fun and imagination amongst environmentalists – is open for entries. The competition was developed in response to the challenge that New Zealand …
Mama mia! Finally! She is here! The grand launch of Wild Energy. It’s been a big day. Me, I’m feeling rather tired. Pulling this all together took just a little longer than expected … ha …
“… we have entered a period of deep uncertainty in how we will source energy for power, heat and mobility, and how much we will have to pay for it.”
These words are quoted directly from …
Coolest moments of this day? Chatting with Mr David Laing my Wild Energy cohort about our … giggle: LAUNCH. It’s been absolutely marvelous over the past week seeing groups step up for us and put …
Well my friends, the 9000th draft my first ever ebook is with the great David Laing for yet another edit and so this frees me up to write up some accompanying courses I want to …
This is Charlotte Squire, reporting in from the front-line of the good-news revolution. It’s the countdown to ebook completion time (as I may have mentioned once or twice before) and the wonderful thing is that …
Kia Ora,
My name’s Charlotte Squire, I’m the Editor of www.happyzine.co.nz – New Zealand’s good news website (with a key focus on positive news about the environment). I would like to invite you to participate as …
It all started in early autumn. I cycled past a garage sale, and spotted what looked like a solar panel on the lawn. It couldn’t be – could it?
I’d always harboured a secret desire to …
It would be easy to become dis-heartened if you work in the sustainability field in New Zealand. Although the National party has introduced an emissions trading scheme, it is gutless, and won’t in any meaningful …
Today has been an exciting day on the Happyzine front. Thanks to David Laing (who it turns out is a total online application techy kind of guy) we’ve now set up RSS feeds from …
Today I had the enormous pleasure of leading part one of a two part work-shop about how to build and run your own blog. It was a rainy, cold day here in Golden Bay, a …
A good thing for any organisation to do from time to time is review the management of any waste that is produced in the course of the day to day operation. In this …
A challenge that all organisations face is reporting results to their stakeholders. Embarking on the sustainability journey presents new facets to that challenge.
The old adage that you “cannot manage what you cannot measure” is a good …
Although I’ve already written a few blogs, I suddenly realised that I hadn’t actually taken the time to provide a definition of sustainability. So, before we go any further, let’s define the term. …
So today, I hit the pillow. Yes, that’s right, I took to my bed, pulled the bed-covers over my head and rested. I slumbered. I let go of everything – handed it over to everyone else – …
If you’ve made a personal commitment to behave more sustainably then you’ve probably started making changes in your life. You’ve already changed your light bulbs to compact fluorescent, you’ve started taking the bus instead of …
Many businesses seem to be challenged when it comes to sustainability. Why? Because everyone in a business is (should be!) focussed on achieving the outcomes desired by investors.
When you’re focussed on your cash flow, or …
Marc Gunther tells a joke comparing corporate sustainability and teen sex – you can find his original article here. The joke goes:
“Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very …
(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
This evening I cooked this yummy winter soup and a gluten free apple/feijoa crumble. The soup was delicious. All the nourishing vegetables, so hot and …
Today was the kind of rainy winter’s day here in Golden Bay, when you feel not only snug, but also smug if you’re lucky enough to be inside, at home with the fireplace (or heat …