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Messing About On The River
October 11, 2012 – 3:13 pm | No Comment

By Steve Carter
Spring has sprung and it signals the end of what many have described as our toughest winter.
Aftershocks may be decreasing in frequency and intensity but it is now that the tiredness has begun …

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Cycle-share schemes for the next generation
October 1, 2012 – 8:18 pm | No Comment

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
It’s a city seemingly made for cycling, so why isn’t there a world-class cycling infrastructure?
 
Whatever the reasons might be, there’s plenty of voices clamouring for Christchurch to be rebuilt as a …

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Christchurch: The little organic shop the community bought
September 24, 2012 – 8:56 pm | 2 Comments

by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
What do you do if you are told the shop you are managing is to be put up for sale? Well, you convince your whole town to chip in to buy …

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Christchurch: A month of mural painting
September 16, 2012 – 8:13 pm | 2 Comments

By Steve Carter
It’s fun to watch ideas seed a whole new chain of creativity.
After the first ‘gap’ project in New Brighton saw the painting of a large mural on the exposed wall of a building …

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Christchurch: The extraordinary emerging community, two years on …
September 7, 2012 – 4:45 pm | 3 Comments

Reflections on September 4th
by Steve Carter
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by …

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Greening the Rubble: Planting the seeds of freedom – by Steve Carter
August 31, 2012 – 8:32 am | No Comment

“It’s a terrific thing to be involved in … I feel like it’s kind of a dream job really.”
It’s always so refreshing to hear people express such passion for their work. On a beautiful, sunny …

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Christchurch: A Hub For Healthy Youth Development
August 24, 2012 – 7:13 pm | 2 Comments

by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
Time passing is such a relative thing.
Sometimes, the last year feels like the longest ever … and then something happens to change one’s perspective to thinking time has fair raced …

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Christchurch: A food revolution from the ground up
August 17, 2012 – 10:33 am | No Comment

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
Growing a better future.
That’s how the ‘Garden To Table’ website describes what their scheme aims to achieve.  Rooted in the work of the Australian cook Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Program, the …

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Christchurch: Flourish – the conference about thriving – by Steve Carter
August 10, 2012 – 11:49 am | No Comment

A conference with a flourish
by Steve Carter
Local Good News/Christchurch
What is it to really flourish?
Obviously, the answer to such a question is multifaceted and complex, so anyone organising a conference on the subject needs to be …

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Christchurch: No Gallery Required
August 3, 2012 – 3:11 pm | No Comment

Local Good News/Christchurch
Steve Carter
“Wow”, you might well think as you see another wall adorned with a new work of art, “What is that?”
Wandering around Christchurch these days is like taking a stroll among the pieces …

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7th Birthday Bash for Lyttelton Farmers Market
August 2, 2012 – 3:01 pm | No Comment

On the 1st of September the Lyttelton Farmers Market turns 7. We don’t need much of an excuse for a party over here… so that’s what we are throwing! From 10am -1pm live bands, competitions, …

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Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word
July 27, 2012 – 12:32 pm | No Comment

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
There’s been ‘Shaking’ and there’s been “Quaking’ … kind of lends itself to poetry, right?
Actually, there has been something of a gentle ban on earthquake doggerel at the Catalyst open-mic poetry …

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Christchurch: Garden City 2.0 – taking ownership from the flaxroots up
July 20, 2012 – 10:02 am | 2 Comments

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 …

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Keeping old places alive in Christchurch
July 13, 2012 – 2:00 pm | One Comment

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 …

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Recapturing Our Sense Of Neat
July 6, 2012 – 11:38 am | No Comment

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 …

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Brighton Up!
June 29, 2012 – 10:50 am | No Comment

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 …

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Anonymous love letters to Christchurch discovered – by Steve Carter
June 22, 2012 – 8:29 am | No Comment

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 …

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Christchurch youth time-banking to create 10,000 strong rock-concert
June 15, 2012 – 7:00 am | No Comment

Local Good News/Christchurch
By Steve Carter
In November, there’s going to be a concert in Christchurch, one that people are talking up as “the biggest music event Christchurch has seen.”
We are talking an impressive musical line-up (to …

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Gap Filler: painting Christchurch like a canvas
June 8, 2012 – 6:45 am | 3 Comments

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 …

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Christchurch: From rags to rethreads
June 1, 2012 – 2:06 pm | One Comment

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, …

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Christchurch: Another Galloping Gourmet by Steve Carter
May 25, 2012 – 10:32 am | No Comment

Local Good News/ Christchurch
by Steve Carter
Picture the scene.
It’s been a busy day, you’re tired and you really don’t feel like cooking dinner. A takeaway beckons: cheekily, annoyingly.
You know that it’s not really the best food. …

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Christchurch: Places of Tranquillity by Steve Carter
May 18, 2012 – 7:02 am | No Comment

Local Good News Report/Christchurch
Places of Tranquillity
“We’ve lost our places of tranquillity.”
This was a feeling expressed to Michelle Whitaker, Coordinator of Healthy Christchurch, at a public forum following September 2010. The beaches were largely inaccessible for …

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Random Crafts of Kindness – by Steve Carter
May 11, 2012 – 7:05 am | No Comment

Local Good News/Christchurch
It’s often the little things that make a difference.
When one is surrounded by evidence of destruction and change every day, as we are in this city, it is easy to feel overwhelmed or …

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21st century organising in a shaky city
May 4, 2012 – 7:31 am | One Comment

Steve Carter profiles young Christchurch ‘changemaker’ Louis Brown, who was part of the team behind the unforgetable and now multiple award winning Student Volunteer Army.
By now, just about everyone in New Zealand, and many beyond …

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Positive news initiative launches from Christchurch this Friday
April 30, 2012 – 8:40 am | No Comment

A positive news initiative covering the exciting, innovative and community-led responses to the Christchurch earthquakes is set to launch this Friday 4 May.
“The Student Volunteer Army has captured the world’s hearts and was last week …

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Meet Steve Carter – ChCh’s brand new Good News Reporter
April 22, 2012 – 8:23 pm | One Comment

Q & A with Steve Carter, by Charlotte Squire

1.  Can you tell us some really important stuff about yourself?
Hmmm, “important” is such a loaded word.  I am an ex-pat Brit, born in Merseyside and raised …

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