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The 100 Mile People Harvest! Week 4: A Smorgasbord of Coromandel Hotspots Guaranteed to Inspire! Part 1
An inspiring four week harvest of visionary people and projects achieving the seemingly impossible within 100 miles of my Coromandel (New Zealand) home.
The Coromandel area is so overflowing with inspiring people and projects doing amazing …
Who is Enjoing Our Food Waste?
By the Mount Eden Village People
We started this initiative 4 years ago with the focus to minimising harmful effects on the environment by reducing waste sent to landfill. In Auckland up to 40% …
Fruit Trees Popping Up On Auckland City Council Land Everywhere
Mount Eden Village People* in partnership with Auckland City Council are undertaking a trial project planting fruit trees on council land in Auckland neighbourhoods.
Back in 2008 Judith Holtebrinck, from Mount Eden Village People, …
Native Trees Return Homegrown Look to Hanmer Springs
MEDIA RELEASE
6 December 2010
Native trees return homegrown look to Hanmer Springs
The woodlands around Hanmer Springs will take on a distinctly Kiwi feel thanks to a native tree replanting programme bringing New Zealand flora back to …
Fair Trade Milestone in Otago, New Zealand
Dunedin, 1 December – Free Fair Trade chocolate birthday cake will be handed out at the Otago Farmers’ Market this weekend as Dunedin celebrates one year since it became the nation’s first Fair Trade City*.
The …
Good News from Tamaki-makau-rau (Auckland, New Zealand) – Groovy Grey Lynn
Despite the first rain in ages, Grey Lynn festival this weekend was an awesome success. Thousands of people packed Grey Lynn Park to chillax for the day, the drizzle not dampening festive spirits. Kiwi music …
The 100 Mile People Harvest! The Coromandel Visionary Who Turns Dreams into Reality
The 100 Mile People Harvest!
An inspiring four week harvest of visionary people and projects achieving the seemingly impossible within 100 miles of my Coromandel home.
Week 3: The Coromandel visionary who specialises in making dreams realities
This …
A Positive Attitude to Impossible Circumstances
Before Jamie Dove was five, he’d had more health problems than most of us get in a lifetime.
Jamie, 25, has faced death many times in his young life but thanks to a positive attitude, and …
Whangarei: The Awakening
It feels that a wind of great energy is blowing over Whangarei (New Zealand) at the moment, with each new week being the start of a positive eco-orientated initiative. The once dormant city of the …
Good News from Tamaki Makaurau AKA Auckland – Auckland’s Awesome Transport Efforts and Art Week
I live really close to Eden Park. The good thing about that is, well, it’s just a really awesome place to live. The not so good is that it can get pretty rowdy when games …
Good News from Tamaki Makaurau
Kia ora tatau,
From the land of the stay up all night, study hard, party hard, stress a lot, live a lot,(eat a lot!!) student I’m back. And pleased to be reporting Auckland was stunning over …
Critical Mass Whangarei, New Zealand
By Claire Chateau
When I picture my perfect town to live in, I view people going everywhere on bikes. I imagine a city centre where people meet and chat waiting at the red light, a place …
THE KIWI DIARY 2011: Keeping It Real, One Day At a Time.
THE KIWI DIARY 2011: Keeping it real, one day at a time.
They’ ve done it again! The Kiwi Diary 2011 – edition seven, is coming soon to your nearest boutique bookshop, gallery and gift store. …
In the Wake of The Quake
By Ken Baird – Happyzine Positive Writing Course graduate
It is been more than a month on from the Canterbury Earthquake that rated in amongst the top dozen to hit New Zealand ever. The aftershocks continue …
Profile: Sam Rye – Creating Positive Green Change
My name is Sam Rye, whilst I’m originally from England, I’m now a proud resident of Aotearoa.
I believe we’ve got the chance to use our working life for the power of positivity, and I’m really …
The 100 Mile People Harvest! Week 2: Otorohanga, a living example of community transformation
An inspiring four week harvest of visionary people and projects achieving the seemingly impossible within 100 miles of my Coromandel home.
There’s something happening in Otorohanga……
This summer I was driving through Otorohanga when I was compelled …
The Mall Walk Workout
MEDIA RELEASE – Mental Health Association
7 October
The Mall Walk Workout
The Mental Health Foundation is encouraging all New Zealanders to play their part in looking after their mental health and by doing so helping …
Remembering Kelly – By Tania Marsden
By Tania Marsden, recent graduate of the Happyzine Positive Writing Course. This article is a memorial about her friend Kelly, who passed one year ago, and is still inspiring bottom pinching to this very day.
In …
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