Articles by Charlotte Squire
Editor Charlotte Squire has a B.A. with a double major in Politics and Social Policy. With a strong focus on positive social and environmental change, Charlotte has worked within the environmental arena for the past seven years. Charlotte has worked for a number of New Zealand based environmental organisations including the Green Party, BIO-GRO NZ, and Greenpeace NZ. She has been a freelance writer for the past six years, exploring positive environmental change. She has written for Her Magazine (formerly Her Business Magazine), Organic NZ, Eco-Living, Permaculture UK and Australia, The GB Weekly and Wild Tomato Magazine. Charlotte is a published Creative Writer. She is also a singer/song writer, her debut album Turangawaewae – Place to Stand being played nationwide.
SodaStream uses eco artist, Sarah Turner’s recycled bottle sculpture in their latest campaign with British super model Erin O’Connor.
The huge sphere Sarah handmade from 562 recycled plastic bottles was perfect to …
A compostable take-away container made in Blenheim from waste potato starch has won the 2011 Unpackit Award for New Zealand’s best packaging.
The Unpackit Worst Packaging Award for the worst packaging sold in New Zealand stores …
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
The Royal New Zealand SPCA will be holding its 78th Annual Conference at
Te Papa, Wellington this weekend, Saturday 7 May.
The theme for this year’s conference is The Power of One, an …
Compassionate Communication
The weekend is a foundation workshop in Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, attack and defend; to think and communicate in terms of what is “right” and …
The Mt Eden Village People continue to drive awareness for sustainable practises in their local community.
In 2010 the Mt Eden Village People successfully initiated the funding of 131 fruit trees by the Eden/Albert community board …
Fair treatment at work makes a significant advance this week with the launch of Together, a radically new type of organisation which will extend union association to thousands of new workers.
“Union …
GROWING UP IN TRUST
Raising & Educating Our Children Without Punishment or Rewards
A Workshop presented by JUSTINE MOL from THE NETHERLANDS
for parents, grandparents, teachers & anyone working with children
Sunday, 8 May 2011, 9 am – 5 …
On May 13 we are hosting an Open Day at the NZ Clean Energy Centre in Taupo to give you an opportunity to visit the Centre and take a tour. There will be …
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 …
Here are three more of the more special blogs (well I feel as if they are) that I wrote over the past 365 days. The first one is called ‘One Sweet Moment with My Son’. …
NELSON FROCKERS’ AUTUMN RIDE
SATURDAY, 30TH APRIL
Meet fellow Frockers at 2pm at Brightwater Sprig and Fern (Ellis St) for a gentle, picturesque ride around country lanes guided by Rose Griffin of The Gentle Cycling Co.
Kaimira Winery …
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 …
Don’t let earthquakes shake your relationship
The ‘new’ normality of Christchurch is beginning to mould our day to day reality. It might not be a desired kind of new and few of us are very excited …
Well it’s the 25th of April, which means over on the April Green Dreamers facebook page we’ve got five days to go. Feel free to head on over there to cheer some of our green …
By Charlotte Squire
I’ve got a question for you – did your parents tell you you could do anything with your life? Did they believe in you and your unique strengths, recognising them, …
“Today they were being taught about sharing. Sharing everything was better than bartering, Donna was told. If everyone gave, they all received and the community thrived.”
Donna, a young friend of Carrie and the Rayman, has …
Ahhh five blogs to go and they feel so precious! What to write about in these final days?!
Well I am feeling pretty excited about Ray Parke’s new book release. I reviewed Ray’s first book ‘The …
Working Hard to be Seen – By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
In an ideal world, you would grow up with a sense of being seen and embraced for the multidimensional unique person you are. But your parents, doing …
So here we sit on blog 360. 360 days of finding the best part of each day to ponder, appreciate, and share with you. There’s one aspect of my life I haven’t written about too …
Little Greenie – Media Release – 21 April 2011 – Page 1 – Contact 0274 539 099
Media Release | For Immediate Release | 21 April 2011
REVOLUTION IN BUILDING MAKES EXCEPTIONAL HOME PERFORMANCE AFFORDABLE, NEW REPORT …
I’ve been working on my exciting new Green Dream course today (during a gorgeous few hours of solitude) and I’ve been developing an e-flier to send around the planet. The more I write about this …
So what did I do on this Easter friday? Why went food stall cruising with the whanau of course! And here it us, my favorite. Divine. Lush. Abundant. Rockworlds organic produce stall. Always offering a …
I’m a sucker for a passionate Irish person. There’s just something about the Irish people I know. They’re sooo lyrical! Yeah, I know, gross generalizations and I that. But still I shall press this point …
By Ian Montangees
I now realise there is a need for a panel of advisors or collaborators to bring in expertise in areas it has been lacking and reset the project on a more …
High energy heart rhymes, served on a bed of tasty grooves…
Performance poetree growing in an uplifting musical landscape…
Redwood & Rhythm take to the road to ignite spirit light round the South Island.
Redwood Reider, spoken words (www.myspace.com/rebeccapoetry)
Rhythm …
I have just nine days to go until the very end of my 365 days of blogging. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. The fact that my daily writing habit shall soon come …
Working online, there are people I’ve been emailing or skyping for years who I haven’t yet met in person. Many of them are some of New Zealand’s most motivated, making it happen people, a large …
It’s times like these I really love my job. After a busy morning on the computer, it’s just me, the National Programme and the tar seal as I drive towards the Abel Tasman National Park. …
Today I found myself surrounded in old native forest with some of my most favorite people. As we walked deeper and deeper into the forest I felt myself absorbing the clean air and relaxing.
This is …
Applications are now open for the New Zealand Youth Delegation (NZYD) to the seventeenth annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Durban, South Africa, taking place at the end of …
Letting Space invite you to join us for a conversation with artist Colin Hodson about his work led by Martin Patrick, from within the work:
7.30pm This Wednesday 20 April, 7.30pm
139 The Terrace, Wellington
We will gather …
When I was a little girl I bought my first album. It was a record. It was the eighties. Rattle and Hum. I loved U2. I loved the raw emotion in their music. I loved …
We hope you’ve been enjoying the mostly good cycling weather of the past month. We’ve organised a workshop on how to repair punctures and a ride for this coming Sunday. Details below:
When: …
Some fantastic Frock Day Out events to put into your calendar.
Saturday 30th April
Autumn Ride in the countryside, on Saturday 30th April, leaving from the Sprig and Fern in Brightwater and organised by Rose. …
I believe that as our needs change, we possess enough intelligence and imagination to generate new solutions to meet those needs. Every single one of them. For every challenge we face as a people, as …
Tis late – nearly mid-night. I’m home after playing a gig at a friend’s house-warming-we’ve-arrived-in-Golden Bay party. Tonight, people actually danced to our music. It was Mohua Sun’s dream come true. And one little girl …
News Release
For immediate release
Image attached: Artist Colin Hodson is in the building. Photo: Gabrielle McKone
Webcam turned on Wellington Office Building as Work of Art
As an unconventional artwork it’s already turning heads, and …
I know I’m not alone in saying this.
My body’s been asking me to slow down for a few months. It keeps saying ‘relax’ and ‘rest’ and when I do, everything just feels better. Then again, …