https://happyzine.co.nz Because good news makes a difference Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:35:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.9 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/11/01/for-sale-beautiful-happyzine/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/11/01/for-sale-beautiful-happyzine/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:58:23 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=30199 Happyzine has been sold! More information soon … Ever thought about running a good news website? Here’s your chance. Happyzine.co.nz has been a force for the positive for the last nine years in New Zealand, sharing good ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/11/01/for-sale-beautiful-happyzine/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/09/19/how-bout-a-spring-fling-with-happyzine/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/09/19/how-bout-a-spring-fling-with-happyzine/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:20:34 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=30195 Happy compost leads to a happy life. Join our happy little community here. ]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/09/19/how-bout-a-spring-fling-with-happyzine/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/07/12/damp-sleeping-bags-but-not-spirits-lifewises-7th-big-sleepout-raises-critical-funds-to-end-homelessness/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/07/12/damp-sleeping-bags-but-not-spirits-lifewises-7th-big-sleepout-raises-critical-funds-to-end-homelessness/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:35:47 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=30097 Last week, Auckland University of Technology’s (AUT) quad was home to 135 people for the night, at the seventh annual Lifewise Big Sleepout. Business, community and political leaders received an insight into what it means to ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/07/12/damp-sleeping-bags-but-not-spirits-lifewises-7th-big-sleepout-raises-critical-funds-to-end-homelessness/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/23/world-smokefree-day-2016-mangere-town-centre-celebrating-nine-years-smokefree/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/23/world-smokefree-day-2016-mangere-town-centre-celebrating-nine-years-smokefree/#comments Sun, 22 May 2016 16:00:03 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29973 Mangere residents have reason to celebrate this month with their town Centre set to commemorate nine years since it became Smokefree in 2007. ASH New Zealand invites Mangere’s local residents and wider community to come ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/23/world-smokefree-day-2016-mangere-town-centre-celebrating-nine-years-smokefree/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/19/hutt-locals-invited-to-snuggle-together-in-their-jim-jams-for-book-nights/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/19/hutt-locals-invited-to-snuggle-together-in-their-jim-jams-for-book-nights/#comments Wed, 18 May 2016 16:00:29 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29956 Readers come together in PJs for first-ever Book Night Hutt City Libraries, in cooperation with the Book Discussion Scheme, is taking part in Book Night on Tuesday 24 May and inviting readers to join in by ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/19/hutt-locals-invited-to-snuggle-together-in-their-jim-jams-for-book-nights/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/17/yha-steps-up-to-help-save-remaining-55-maui-dolphins/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/17/yha-steps-up-to-help-save-remaining-55-maui-dolphins/#comments Mon, 16 May 2016 16:00:57 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29936 Media Release 11 May 2016 55 NEW ZEALANDERS NEED OUR HELP! By YHA New Zealand New Zealand – YHA New Zealand supports the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Challenge 55 to help protect the world’s rarest and smallest ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/05/17/yha-steps-up-to-help-save-remaining-55-maui-dolphins/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/04/25/b-side-stories-meet-ali-whitton-of-lost-bird/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/04/25/b-side-stories-meet-ali-whitton-of-lost-bird/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:00:39 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29787 This week on BSide Stories we were joined by Ali Whitton of LOST BiRD, the local Wellington Country Folk duo consisting of guitar player/songwriter Ali & Oliver Vetter on violin. Ali discusses his Celtic origins ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/04/25/b-side-stories-meet-ali-whitton-of-lost-bird/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/04/02/weeds-as-medicines-part-2-by-dunedin-naturopath-francisca-griffin/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/04/02/weeds-as-medicines-part-2-by-dunedin-naturopath-francisca-griffin/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:00:01 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29625 Listen to the online pod cast via Access Internet Radio here. More weeds as medicines, have a listen via the link above. Disclaimer! Please, do be aware that weed medicine as well as being very effective, can ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/04/02/weeds-as-medicines-part-2-by-dunedin-naturopath-francisca-griffin/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/26/french-man-aims-to-become-first-to-complete-zero-carbon-flight-across-the-atlantic/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/26/french-man-aims-to-become-first-to-complete-zero-carbon-flight-across-the-atlantic/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:00:21 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29662 Inhabitat.com report that French scientist, former yachtsman, pilot Raphael Dinelli is seeking to make history by completing the first zero-carbon trans-Atlantic flight this June.  He’s flying a hybrid plane powered by solar energy and biofuels.   ]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/26/french-man-aims-to-become-first-to-complete-zero-carbon-flight-across-the-atlantic/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/25/new-affordable-housing-offered-to-descendants-of-iwi-who-lost-land-200-years-ago/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/25/new-affordable-housing-offered-to-descendants-of-iwi-who-lost-land-200-years-ago/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:00:40 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29658 Wellington’s Te Aro Pā papakāinga opens its doors   On Saturday 19 March Te Aro Pā papakāinga, at 312 Evans Bay Parade, officially opens its doors to fourteen, affordable new Wellington homes. Owners, Trustees, neighbours and many people ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/25/new-affordable-housing-offered-to-descendants-of-iwi-who-lost-land-200-years-ago/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/14/feel-good-story-of-one-penguins-love-for-the-nice-man-who-saved-him-in-brazil/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/14/feel-good-story-of-one-penguins-love-for-the-nice-man-who-saved-him-in-brazil/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2016 15:00:19 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29593 Stuff reported that a penguin named Jinjing, who was nursed back to life from an oil spill by retired bricklayer and part time fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, has continued to visit his friend every ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/14/feel-good-story-of-one-penguins-love-for-the-nice-man-who-saved-him-in-brazil/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/09/new-community-art-gallery-opens-in-johnsonville/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/09/new-community-art-gallery-opens-in-johnsonville/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:00:03 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29583 Late-night and weekend visitors to the Johnsonville Shopping Centre can now complement their shopping experience with beautiful works of art: the new community art gallery ‘Sub Urban Art Space’ is open and welcomes visitors to ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/09/new-community-art-gallery-opens-in-johnsonville/feed/ 1 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/08/victoria-appoints-senior-leader-in-sustainability/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/08/victoria-appoints-senior-leader-in-sustainability/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:00:54 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29569 Victoria University of Wellington has appointed Associate Professor Marjan van den Belt, an internationally respected scholar and advisor on biodiversity and ecosystem services, to the role of Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability). Associate Professor van den Belt, who ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/03/08/victoria-appoints-senior-leader-in-sustainability/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/02/18/kiwis-living-with-dementia-play-part-in-school-kids-environmental-education/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/02/18/kiwis-living-with-dementia-play-part-in-school-kids-environmental-education/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:00:39 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29459 A group of Alzheimers Auckland socialisation members have been putting their skills to use, creating thousands of paper planting pots for mobile environment classroom, Tread Lightly Caravan, to teach important messages about sustainability to local ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/02/18/kiwis-living-with-dementia-play-part-in-school-kids-environmental-education/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/01/02/weekend-news-hug-ruby-wax-on-mindfulness/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/01/02/weekend-news-hug-ruby-wax-on-mindfulness/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:00:32 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29163 Radio New Zealand ran this interview about Ruby Wax in September.  Ruby is world-renowned comedian, celebrity interviewer, and script editor of the 1990s classic Absolutely Fabulous.  Many don’t know that she also has an OBE ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2016/01/02/weekend-news-hug-ruby-wax-on-mindfulness/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/12/26/2015-goodies-ten-questions-with-happiness-experiment-founder-tamara-waugh/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/12/26/2015-goodies-ten-questions-with-happiness-experiment-founder-tamara-waugh/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2015 18:34:52 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=29072   She describes herself as “compassionate, wise and driven.” Since turning her own life around with mindfulness and gratitude Auckland based Tamara has been inspiring people to do the same via her Happiness Experiment #3goodthings per day ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/12/26/2015-goodies-ten-questions-with-happiness-experiment-founder-tamara-waugh/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/12/03/inspired-to-thrive-alicias-story/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/12/03/inspired-to-thrive-alicias-story/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:00:36 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=28863 International Day of People with Disability, Thursday 3 December At 44, Alicia Thompson is a professional businesswoman with a husband, a teenage son and a love of knitting. Not much different from many women you’d meet ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/12/03/inspired-to-thrive-alicias-story/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/16/southlanders-celebrate-recycling/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/16/southlanders-celebrate-recycling/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:58:11 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=28813 Contributed by Invercargill City Council A social media campaign titled “I Recycle, Do You?” is being run by WasteNet Southland to celebrate Southland Recycle Week this week. The aim is to encourage Southlanders to learn about recycling, take ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/16/southlanders-celebrate-recycling/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/05/broaden-our-horizons-send-in-your-good-news/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/05/broaden-our-horizons-send-in-your-good-news/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2015 20:17:45 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=28784   We want to know what’s good in your community. Send news and images to: [email protected] ]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/05/broaden-our-horizons-send-in-your-good-news/feed/ 0 https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/04/whats-wondrous-in-your-world/ https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/04/whats-wondrous-in-your-world/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:27:06 +0000 https://happyzine.co.nz/?p=28780    You know what I give thanks for today? My ability to listen to myself and to prioritise my happiness above all else. No matter what you’re doing with your days, it is possible to control your ...]]> https://happyzine.co.nz/2015/11/04/whats-wondrous-in-your-world/feed/ 1