Articles in Environment
More Ways to Get from A to B Greenly
I can’t seem to get my mind off the subject of transport recently. You might be getting sick of hearing about it, but just in case you missed the news, Len Brown is the new …
Energy Risks for Business
“… we have entered a period of deep uncertainty in how we will source energy for power, heat and mobility, and how much we will have to pay for it.”
These words are quoted directly from …
Wild Sponsorship Requested for Wild Energy Competition
My name’s Charlotte Squire, I’m the wild founder of Happyzine and I would like to tell you something wonderful about Wild Energy.
A few years ago I heard about the tale of the Mokihinui River here …
Tramping – Why Off-track is Where the Magic Starts
By Clair Fones – recent graduate of the Happyzine Positive Writing Course
I’m tired, sweaty and aching, my heavy backpack is hooked up in vegetation again and I’m flailing around like a fly caught in a …
Transport Yourself
Weds 22 Sept was World Car-free day. As a kid, I was lucky enough to live over the road from my suburban primary school (I do believe I even crossed the road alone) and cycled …
Does Peak Oil exist?
I’m still searching for the answer to the (other) big question:
Does Peak Oil exist?
If I’m going to try and convince others within my community to make plans for an alternative future without oil, I need …
Steps to Transition
The thing I like about the internet is that I generally start searching with a certain theme or subject in mind and then I usually end up somewhere else. It’s like taking a magic …
Suzi’s Spring Advice
By Suzi Franks
I know, I know you would NOT believe spring is upon us…
But the birds are definitely singing, my orchard tress have buds and blossoms and there is a general ‘lightening of mood’ in …
Trowel Power!
By Rebecca Toon – New Zealand
The hour of the trowel has come. Jules Dervaes is pioneering a revolution from his backyard that will change the way you feel about this humble tool and your own …
Permaculture in a Catastrophe
Assignment 3, design for a catastrophe, the question asks: What is the prediction for future catastrophes, is your home in an at-risk area?
Unfortunately, there is no method for predicting any of these …
Ekodo: Compassionate Environmentalism
By Sean Weaver
Over the last twenty-five years of environmental practice, I have had countless opportunities to experience and reflect on how to enhance my effectiveness. I have had my fair share of failures and successes …
One Night by Candlelight
There’s nothing like changing a newborn nappy by candlelight to remind me of the perils of Peak Oil. Romantic it wasn’t.
For a few months there my bedtime reading was Rob Hopkins’ Transition Town …
Walking on the Wild Side Does Have its Benefits
Your eyes are feasting on an array of delicate blooms with their own artists palette of shades and immeasurable incalculable infinity of geometric designs.
How does this make you feel?
Relaxed, senses sated?
This is the powerful effect …
Planting the Seed
by Claire Chateau
“And after we get the Gold Award…what do we do?”
This was one of the burning questions asked by Alex, eight, last week, as he was reflecting upon the eco-journey of his school, together …
From Water Capture to Birthing into Water
Last week I chatted merrily about water conservation, about my dreams to capture more and how to put it to use. A very keen part of the permaculture process. Another principle of permaculture …
Introducing Ekodo – Eko (ecological) do (way).
By Sean Weaver, 23 August, 2010.
This is the first of a series of blogs that Sean Weaver will write about Ekodo.
Eko (ecological) do (way) is the way of the eco-warrior. Ekodo turns environmentalism into a …
Food, Glorious Sustainable Food; Part II
Since my previous ramblings about food here on Happyzine, I’ve spent far too much time with my nose in a book called “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer. As the title suggests, it tackles the …
Solar panels for beginners
It all started in early autumn. I cycled past a garage sale, and spotted what looked like a solar panel on the lawn. It couldn’t be – could it?
I’d always harboured a secret desire to …
Residents Have Their Say on “Taxi-bus”
Hikurangi Foundation
Media statement
For release: 19 August 2010
Residents have their say on “Taxi-bus”
Warkworth residents are being surveyed on a Taxi-bus service to see if this could be a solution to the lack of public transport in …
A Conversation About Water Conservation
I check the weather online almost as often as I check my email. Not that it changes anything- we’ll still get weather. So it seems almost ironic, in a very long wet winter, …
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