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Doing Whatever it Takes: the Journey of a New Culture Maker – Rose Diamond

September 12, 2011 – 1:34 pm |

A Whole New Human launched yesterday with a wonderful deep discovery conversation with Barry Brailsford, New Zealand author and wisdom carrier. As I was preparing for the interview and taking another look at some of …

Ekodo: Listen

August 23, 2011 – 10:10 am |

By Sean Weaver
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Pigeon: What is the most important thing we need in society for the next decade?
Gecko: Discover more intimately what compassion is, and then act more decisively on that discovery.
Pigeon: How do we …

Local Food Self-Reliance: Sexy

August 17, 2011 – 8:08 pm | 5 Comments

By Charlotte Squire – Editor of Happyzine

It’s Eco-Fest time in Charlotte Squire’s Nelson ‘hood and she’s thinking ‘local food reliance’.

This was my facebook entry, half an hour ago:
“Just bought my veggies from the community …

Green Dreamers: There is Hope

August 2, 2011 – 8:02 pm |

by Charlotte Squire, Editor of the good news, green website www.happyzine.co.nz
This morning I shared an email chat with an Otago based Louis Chambers – who has just co-founded Generation Zero (Kiwi youth standing up for …

Opinion: Oi! Kiwi Businesses! We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are! By Charlotte Squire

June 21, 2011 – 11:58 pm | 2 Comments

So word has in on the street that Kiwi businesses ranked pretty close to the bottom of the barrel in a recent international survey when it came to ‘saving the planet’.  Yep.  A mere twenty …

Happyzine Questionnaire – Email Us Your Answers and You Could Win Serena Star Leonard’s New Book

May 8, 2011 – 6:41 pm | One Comment

Dear Happyzine readers! Who ARE you?  Email me the answers to the following ten questions and you will automatically go in the draw to win a copy of Serena Star Leonard’s amazing new book ‘How …

The Final Blog – Would You Like the Good News, or the Good News?

April 29, 2011 – 3:43 pm | 7 Comments

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 364 – One Sweet Moment; Change As Good As a Holiday and taking a Gandhi Day.

April 28, 2011 – 7:19 pm |

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’.  …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 363 – Three of My Favorites 365 Blogs Over the Past Year – Believing in your dreams, just be yourself and honey bees: a sign of hope.

April 27, 2011 – 8:19 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 362 – Head Over to Our April Green Dreamers Facebook Page to Cheer Them To the Finish Line

April 26, 2011 – 5:10 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 361 – The Rayman Is Sharing His eBooks So Help Yourself (plus the Final Countdown)

April 25, 2011 – 5:00 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 360 – The First and Last Love Blog

April 24, 2011 – 9:58 pm | 6 Comments

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 359 – Harvesting the Green Heroes of This World

April 23, 2011 – 5:02 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 358 – One Gorgeous Organic Food Stall in Golden Bay: Photo Doco

April 22, 2011 – 6:02 pm | One Comment

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 358 – Seeing Beyond Limits

April 21, 2011 – 6:25 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 357 – Dreaming of Day 365

April 20, 2011 – 4:30 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 356 – Brittany Packer – Keep Your Eye On Her, Oh Yeah.

April 19, 2011 – 5:00 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 355 – The Kahikatea

April 18, 2011 – 5:00 pm | 2 Comments

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 354 – What’s Your True Hearts Desire?

April 17, 2011 – 8:10 pm |

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 …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 353 – Man Invents Way to Harvest Oil from Plastic (of course)

April 16, 2011 – 6:08 pm |

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 …

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