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Final Happyzine weekly for 2009
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Holidays. We all need them. I was reminded recently that holidays are wonderful in that they allow us to step back from our work, rest our minds, and return some time later feeling refreshed …
Happyzine weekly – December 7th, 09
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Just in case you hadn’t noticed – it’s December. I’m feeling the urge to transform my home into a magical, sparkling, cave full of promise and eye-candy. And I want to do it in …
Happyzine weekly – November 30th, 09
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This week I’ve launched a wee pilot project – a daily ‘fly-by’ of the nation’s good news (with some international good-news also thrown in). And at the beginning of these web-link-lists, are blogs, about …
Happyzine weekly – November 22nd, 09
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Enjoying the Journey
This morning I gathered up my son Kahu, and my best ever running companion – Maia the Dog – and we went push-chair jogging through the drizzle. I love running in light-rain, …
Happyzine weekly – 16th November, 09
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One sunny afternoon last week I met up with Debs Martin, New Zealand’s Wild Rivers Campaign Coordinator. We lounged on the grass at the Queens Gardens, here in Nelson, and brain stormed some ways …
Happyzine October 26th, 2009
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This week I was reminded of my excitement and passion for permaculture. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the subject “Permaculture is a …
October 19th, 2009
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This past week’s been a busy one for Happyzine as it morphs from a weekly ezine (with a website bubbling away in the background) into a …
Happyzine October 12th, 2009
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Here’s an opportunity to give: This morning I listened with interest to the National Programme. Mike Whittaker shared his impressions of the earthquake and the tsunami as …
Happyzine October 5th, 2009
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In this issue we pay homage to, in my opinion, two of history’s most inspiring men folk – Gandhi and Mandela. Both of them lead by example, refusing …
September 28th, 2009
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Over the weekend I attended the most beautiful funeral. The subject of death and dying is perhaps not so readily connected with positive media, but death and change are …
Happyzine September 21st, 2009
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Did you know that today’s the International Day of Peace? Today’s the time to make peace – with loved ones, and not so loved ones, …
September 14th, 2009
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Editor’s Comment – Good News is Everywhere, if You Want to See It
Over the past week I launched the Hour of Kindness and had the pleasure …
September 7th, 2009
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I watched these boys on the news last night, chugging cheerfully across the Cook Straight between our South and North Islands in a van. They were two …
August 31st, 2009
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Positive thinking has a huge role play when it comes to environmental change – for New Zealand, and for the rest of the world. We often hear how it can …
August 24th, 2009
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Editor’s Pick: Healthy Happyzine – Healthy People – Healthy Planet
There’s a strong case to be made around the belief that directing our attention to positive media …
Happyzine August 17th, 2009
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Introducing our new writer – Theron Burgess. Theron’s just become a Dad, and in his first ever blog for Happyzine he shares with us his impressions …
August 10th, 2009
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Big news for Happyzine – I’m inviting our Kiwi politicians to partake in an Hour of Kindness in Parliament this September the 8th, during Questions in …
August 3rd, 2009
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This past week has been Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori or Maori Language Week. All across Aotearoa people have been doing their bit to …
July 27th, 2009
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There’s something about this tale that I find quite delightful – it’s ‘the little stream that could’. The New York Times reported that the Cheonggyecheon stream, …
July 20th, 2009
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You may notice a distinctly New Zealand flavoured theme for your five minutes of good news this week. I kept discovering projects and people to get excited …
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