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.
WWF-New Zealand media release – for immediate release
Australia creates biggest marine park on the eve of Rio+20 summit
Australia today created the world’s biggest network of marine protected areas, setting an important precedent for ocean protection …
‘Industry leaders call for green travel’
Travel and tourism leaders are calling for a new enlightened framework for sustainable tourism in a ground breaking collection of essays compiled by Victoria University academics.
“Green Growth and Travelism: Letters …
Simon Matafai represents 54 countries of the Commonwealth of Nations at the Rio+20 World Summit in Brazil.
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Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Six youth from around the world have been selected to represent the Commonwealth Youth …
NZ Blood
MEDIA RELEASE
14 June 2012
2000 registrations needed
before the end of June
Today, a New Zealander will receive a life-saving blood transfusion or blood product every 12 and a half minutes*. Each will be just one of …
WWF-New Zealand Media Release – for immediate release
Business leaders make the case for greener economy
Global environmental organisation WWF has today welcomed a report by a group of prominent New Zealand business leaders calling for action …
Telecom
The government is spending $1.5 billion on the rollout of New Zealand’s Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) infrastructure over the next 10 years with priority initially being placed on businesses, schools and health services. This is …
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 social innovator – and all the work I …
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 Manda Judd, and I love creating …
I recently had the good fortune of reaching the milestone age of 40 and although this is still a relatively young age (if you were to ask a ninety year old) the age I’ve turned …
Local Good News/Golden Bay
Up-cycling – taking old clothing from its forgotten place in history into fresh 2012 fashion – is not only thriving world-wide but also serving to reduce waste, and utilise the top quality, …
Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
It’s about vacant spaces. We certainly have a lot of them in Christchurch right now.
More importantly, it is about how we choose to engage with those spaces and how those choices …
Toi Māori Aotearoa
PAO PAO PAO celebrates 10years of contemporary Maori music
Image: At only sixteen years of age, Anania aka Majic Paora is already writing and singing songs for some of America’s top R’n’B and country …
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence
Research shows sustainable design should look to indigenous concepts
New research argues New Zealand could have had sustainable design principles for urban development in practice …
Please pass on widely to your networks, organisations and friends.
On 7 and 8 June 2012,
YOU are invited to create a better future for New Zealand.
Join people from all over New Zealand in an on-line game …
1 June 2012
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Transport experts offer support for cheeky underwear protest
Transport experts and civic leaders have joined a wave of support for the 40 young people who rode a Wellington commuter train in their …
Local Good News/Christchurch
By Steve Carter
Briar Cook is making me a skirt.
Leaving aside for now the reasons why that might be, I’m assured that it will be “kiltish and kick-ass.” That suits me just fine. Besides, …
By Charlotte Squire
I’m sitting in a sun-lit room with Marsha Jones the astrologer/astronomer and Kevin Durkan the High School Science Teacher. They come from vastly different backgrounds and belief systems, yet each of them have …
31 May 2012 – Wellington
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use
Protection call for non-renewable wild rivers welcomed
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird praised the report on wild rivers and hydro-electricity released today by the …
By Hayley Samon, year 11 French at Kamo High School
Image: Hayley Salmon and Chad Tohu, Kamo High School, Whangarei in La Cigale, Auckland
It was a freezing Tuesday morning a few weeks back when we all …
Capital E National Theatre for Children presents:
The Dominion Post season of MAGNOLIA STREET
On this street you’ll discover that magnolia trees have hearts, unexpected friendships are the best kind, and 1944 can be just around the …
Wanaka Wastebusters
Unpackit Awards too close to call
Competition in the Unpackit Awards is red hot this year, with the leaders neck in neck for both the Best and Worst Packaging Awards.
Unpackit spokesperson Gina Dempster said this …
Media release Kidsline
29 May 2012
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KIDSLINE CALLS ON YOUNG ARTISTS FOR BADGE DESIGN COMPETITION
Kidsline is asking young New Zealander’s to transform their feelings into art, as The Kidsline Great Big Badge Design Competition kicks off.
Today …
News Release – for immediate use
New scholarships to support young entrepreneurs
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology will this year offer $10,000 in new scholarships to support budding young business people into tertiary study as part …
Youth expose Government’s unbalanced transport budget
Tuesday 29 May 2012
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Wellington public transport commuters got a surprise this morning when a group of 40 young people stripped down to their underwear on city trains to …
PSYCHODRAMA WORKSHOP
WITH
SIMON AND CAROL PARKINSON-JONES
RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND
at our home : 750 Mccallum Road, Takaka
Starts 7.30pm Friday 15th to Sunday 17th June, 4pm
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I received my gorgeous ‘Keep Leaf’ in the mail a few days ago. It’s quite the concept – a reusable sleeve, with natural cotton on the outside (sporting rather a gorgeous print) and durable, washable, …
Kia Ora! Last time I talked about how all that we experienced as young ‘uns still has a strong unconscious influence on our lives in the present. In order to turn one’s dream into a …
My name is Clare and I run a Social Enterprise called Accountability Now in Auckland.
Accountability Now’s mission is to help businesses to become accountable for their inevitable impacts on our world through supporting partnerships with …
Local Good News/Golden Bay
By Charlotte Squire
When Ceiros Begg was a little girl, she and her mother spent hours walking the streets of Christchurch to visit thrift shops. No shop was too far away and mother …
I must have been ten. I remember my parents getting outrageously dressed-up for a party on the theme of “we don’t have fuel but we have ideas”. The slogan, that was made popular in France …
Media Release
Youthtown 23 May 2012
Youthtown Launches National Youth Survey
National youth charity Youthtown is going to the streets to find out how young people really feel about themselves and their future.
Youthtown has commissioned Point Research …
An introduction, by Tanya Bibby
Recently a new website was launched. AskShareGive is a new not-for-profit website where people can share their time, skills, transport and old or unwanted goods.
The website is the brainchild of a …
22 May 2012 – Wellington
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use
Forest & Bird welcomes victory for Mokihinui River
Forest & Bird welcomes Meridian Energy’s announcement that it will abandon its plan to dam the …
By Charlotte Squire
If you’re after a bluesy, sultry, heart-felt album with beautiful female vocals and continued references to love in all its forms, one that you can listen to while you relax on a rainy …
Victoria University
News Stories
Research shows how to increase mental wellbeing and feel happy
Published 17 May 2012
Why is it that some people seem to waltz through life in a bubble of happiness, when for others each …
Local Good News/Golden Bay
Sruti Stojchevski is conducting a social experiment from the Golden Bay Community Organic Gardens. He’s serving up fresh food, lovingly prepared daily according to Ayurvedic principles from mostly local organic produce, at …
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Pay Fairtrade Forward – May 18th
Wellington, New Zealand, 14th May 2012 –
On 18 May 2012, cafés all over New Zealand are joining forces to Pay Fairtrade Forward. At the beginning of the …
TURNING DREAMS INTO REALITY: understanding how your brain works could help!
By Simon Parkinson-Jones
Do you have a dream or vision of something you want to accomplish in life? A new business, taking a year off to …
Mental Health Foundation
**Campaign raises awareness about bullying prevention by encouraging safety, inclusion and respect**
The Mental Health Foundation encourages all New Zealanders to wear pink on Pink Shirt Day Aotearoa – this Friday, 18 May 2012.
Pink …
By Christine Reitze, organiser of Container Love
Christchurch residents have created a giant ‘Container Cosy’ to brighten up the shipping containers they found in their neighbourhoods after the Christchurch quakes. Pieces of the Cosy were donated …