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NEW ZEALAND YOUTH ARE INSPIRING PEOPLE TO SAVE THE PLANET THROUGH EARTH HOUR
 
Kids, Teenagers and Young Adults Lead the Way to a Sustainable Future
 
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today,” said Malcolm …

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The World is Your Canvas – Karamea’s Rongo Backpackers Where Self-Sufficiency Meets Creativity
January 8, 2011 – 10:10 pm | 12 Comments

Article by By Kathleen Anderson Freelance Writer
Paul Murray is a self-realized artist.  He has invested his whole life and soul in his current work: The LivinginPeace Project, which aims to combine the …

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Round the World or Round the Corner
October 23, 2010 – 6:39 pm | No Comment

Jules Verne and I have nothing in common.
My first circumnavigation of the world took over 10 years to complete. Traveling into the sunset, If I’d been going about it in a straight forward fashion that’d …

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When May Embraces November, Permaculture Dreams Come True
October 19, 2010 – 2:31 pm | 6 Comments

This article was submitted by Positive Writing Student Joanna Piekarski and is also the beginning of a new exchange that Happyzine will be hosting …
Living the good life.  That’s how pioneer back-to-the-landers Helen and …

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Steps to Transition
September 17, 2010 – 8:40 pm | No Comment

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 …

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Suzi’s Spring Advice
September 13, 2010 – 10:12 am | One Comment

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 …

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Trowel Power!
September 9, 2010 – 5:32 pm | 5 Comments

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 …

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Permaculture in a Catastrophe
September 9, 2010 – 4:42 pm | One Comment

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 …

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One Night by Candlelight
September 2, 2010 – 6:24 pm | No Comment

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 …

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From Water Capture to Birthing into Water
August 27, 2010 – 3:59 pm | No Comment

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 …

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Food, Glorious Sustainable Food; Part II
August 22, 2010 – 6:53 pm | No Comment

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 …

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A Conversation About Water Conservation
August 20, 2010 – 1:23 pm | No Comment

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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How to be an Avant Gardener (from a Permaculturalist’s Perspective)
August 12, 2010 – 9:18 pm | No Comment

Gardening is all about planning and permaculture is no exception to that rule. Despite having a degree in Making It Up As You Go Along, when I garden I need to have a convincing …

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The Bend is Nigh
August 7, 2010 – 8:20 pm | No Comment

Despite never having actually owned my own garden I had been secretly practicing the principles of permaculture, left and right and all over the world, for years- but not knowing it.  I was like many …

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The Bus to Permaculture – by Rebecca May
July 29, 2010 – 5:15 pm | No Comment

On returning to New Zealand we feared we’d missed the bus. Was the kiwi Quarter Acre Paradise no more? Pieces of land bounding the city’s limits were now ‘lifestyle’ blocks and were equally unaffordable.
Two nomads …

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