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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
How do we move confidently around our towns and cities? We orient ourselves, mostly without even realising it, by visual cues, by snapshots of recognition in the known environment.
I have heard …
Live Below the Line 2012 Launch Event
Snapdragon Restaurant, Viaduct
10 July 2012
For Immediate Release
The Global Poverty Project have begun their 2012 Live Below The Line campaign which calls for thousands of New Zealanders to live for …
By Johny O’Donnell
Last week a group of nearly forty active change-makers descended on Living Springs Camp in Christchurch for the inaugural Regeneration Winter Jam 2012!
The jam brought together two streams of Regeneration; Active Citizenship and …
The winning design for the inaugural Resene Art in the Street SCAPE Christchurch Murals project has been selected. The winning design, created by Rachael Dewhirst - a fourth year student of Fine Arts at Canterbury …
WELLWARE COLLECTIONS & LOOP PRESENT THE WINTER KIT
Release date: 9/ 7 / 12
To nourish your body and soul through the colder months, Wellware’s Winter kit combines music and remedy by bringing together a relaxing downtempo …
From Hikurangi
Since 2009 Hikurangi has supported Scott Willis in Dunedin’s Waitati North to realise his community’s dream: to become the first community in New Zealand to own their own power company, build a community-owned wind …
Local Good News/Golden Bay
By Charlotte Squire
Meet Sarah Lea – mother of three, she also happens to be the Happyzine raw food writer. Sarah recently underwent a significant lifestyle change. She moved to Golden Bay with …
Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
All the neat places in the CBD are gone, right?
That’s what people seem to think about Christchurch. The earthquakes have wreaked so much devastation in the Central City that there is …
Media release: Mount Eden Village People
Auckland 24.6.2012
Mt Eden Village shops and businesses support a community initiative to plant fruit trees for Auckland.
Mt Eden Village is known for its café culture and for the shops’ spirit …
Nga Pai O Te Maramatanga
NPM-Fulbright Māori scholars graduate from Harvard
Fellow Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) Graduate Award recipients Dan Bidois and Natalie Coates are among the newest Harvard University graduates. The award enabled …
Local Good News/Golden Bay
Charlotte Squire
Charlotte Squire talks to Jill Hayhurst – PhD candidate at the University of Otago – about Golden Bay’s complementary currency HANDS (How About a Non-Dollar System) and the social capital benefits …
Local Good News/Christchurch
By Steve Carter
There is a quiet revolution happening in New Brighton.
For years, the beachside suburb has been regarded as a town in decline, a once-thriving shopping destination that lost out to suburban malls …
Media release
For immediate release
Attitude Award gives champion a boost
Mike Gourley says receiving the 2011 Attitude ACC Supreme Award couldn’t have come at a better time in his life.
Mike had a stroke earlier in the …
Social Innovation is a small, hardworking community engagement agency based in Christchurch. They work with leading non-profits, changemakers, progressive companies and government to mobilise everyday New Zealanders. Their expertise in this area comes from grassroots …
27 June 2012
Media release
The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
Christchurch event aims to build social capital
A special event in Christchurch aims to bring some fresh thinking on how we can all work together to create …
1. Can you introduce yourself to our readers, just as if you were introducing yourself to a room full of like-minded people at a very welcoming meeting?
Kia ora! I’m Lani! I’m a Wellington based community …
Kia Ora,
I’m Charlotte Squire, Editor of the Kiwi positive news website ‘Happyzine’ and I’m pleased to announce that the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation officially endorses our awesome Local Good News initiative.
The Happyzine Local Good …
Have you found yourself a reliable natural deodorant? For me, it’s been a bewildering journey of misfires and letdowns with the very occasional discovery of one that actually works. I found a goodie in it’s …
Local Good News/Golden Bay
By Charlotte Squire
Have you ever been mesmerised by the high powered lighting displays at dance-parties and events, and wondered about the people who bought it to you and the thought processes behind …
Happyzine readers! Do your bit to make life sweeter for SPCA animals!
Email us the pictures and recipes of your ‘Most deliciously eco-friendly cupcakes’, along with an explanation of exactly why they’re so eco-friendly, and you …
Local Good News/Christchurch
‘Dear Christchurch, you are incredible’ – by Steve Carter
The American writer Anatole Broyard said, “In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used …
MEDIA RELEASE
20 June 2012
PledgeMe.co.nz – Triumph celebrated with an Auckland launch party
Crowd-funding website PledgeMe.co.nz is experiencing unprecedented success, giving New Zealand’s creative community reason to celebrate.
Through PledgeMe more than $275,000 has been pledged to the …
1. Can you introduce yourself to our readers, just as if you were introducing yourself to a room full of like-minded people at a very welcoming meeting?
Sure. G’day, I’m Coralie and I am passionate about …
By Joyce Elwood-Smith
The Tui has always held a fascination for me, coming from Christchurch where they no longer like to live they also disappeared from Banks Peninsula about 20years ago. However in 2007 a group …
Mercury Energy Communications
MEDIA RELEASE
Good Energy Taxi catches good deeds on camera
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Mercury Energy is once again celebrating the good energy of Kiwis by sending the world’s first Good Energy-powered taxi out on …
Forest and Bird
The new species of day-flying moth found during Forest & Bird’s Denniston BioBlitz in March will be named after the world’s most successful movie Avatar, scientist Brian Patrick announced today.
Arctesthes avatar, or more …
A Nelson company has developed a product that has the potential to be the best time-lapse camera in the world.
Snap Information Technologies Ltd has just announced a limited pilot launch of the new SnapitHD³ series …
1. Can you introduce yourself to our readers, just as if you were introducing yourself to a room full of like-minded people at a very welcoming meeting?
I call myself a ‘social entrepreneur’ because I always end …
I just took another dose of echinacea. I’ve got the sore throat thing going on, and the slightly worn out feeling that has been known to preceed a cold. But not this time! That’s my …
Sunday, June 17, 2012 – Wellington
Forest & Bird press release for immediate use
Tireless conservationist receives top honours
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Avid conservationist Linda Conning has been honoured as a Distinguished Life Member by Forest & Bird for her outstanding …
Can you introduce yourself to our readers, just as if you were introducing yourself to a room full of like-minded people at a very welcoming meeting?
I’m a storyteller. I love all kinds of stories. The …
Lcoal Good News/Golden Bay
Charlotte Squire
Collingwood, Golden Bay was the first New Zealand town to go plastic shopping bag free in 2005. Seven years on from that small, but significant move, Charlotte Squire takes a look …