Articles tagged with: Sustainability
Dream to Reality – Share Your Dreams!
When you share your dreams with the world, the amount of unexpected support that flows to you is astounding. Until recently, I didn’t like sharing my goals and fantasies with other people. I think this …
The Winning DreamtoReality Entry: Emily Harris
My name is Emily Harris. I’m 25 years old and at the end of last year I finished a legal internship. The natural next step for me was to get a job with a law …
Dine Out on Saving the Planet.
Award-winning restaurant and Wellington institution Logan Brown is throwing its support behind this year’s Earth Hour, by offering eight lucky diners a free meal to celebrate the global environmental campaign.
Steve Logan, the restaurateur behind Cuisine …
Designers Invited to Shed Light on Greener Future
Press Release – Massey University
WWF-New Zealand has teamed up with Massey University and some of the country’s leading designers, architects and artists to launch an innovative new green design competition as part of this year’s …
DreamtoReality Entry: Genevieve de Spa
Ever since coming to live in Auckland just over a year ago, I have been thinking about how to reduce the traffic on the roads.
Rodney Hyde thinks that Auckland is “broken and needs fixing” because …
CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi International Supports Happyzine’s Green-Dream Project: DreamtoReality
Kevin Roberts – the CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi International, based in New York, has offered his praise of Happyzine’s DreamtoReality 2010 project. The positive news website www.happyzine.co.nz is offering one person the opportunity to …
The Honey Bee Revival – TopBar Hives
I am always on the lookout for kinder, more sustainable ways of beekeeping, I believe TopBar hives are the way to go for people keen on keeping bees in a more natural environment.
I first read …
Win One Year of Life Coaching and Support to Reach Your Environmental Goal!
Happyzine Dream to Reality: Project Planet.
“Enough with focusing on what’s wrong, it’s time to dream about what’s possible environmentally, and make it happen,” says Charlotte Squire, founder of good-news website ‘Happyzine’. She’s offering one …
Honey Time
This time of the year if the weather has been kind, is the time to collect honey from your hive. Hopefully the bees have been busy doing what they do best and bringing back plenty …
Carbon neutral status renewed for Christchurch Airport
Christchurch International Airport (CIAL) has had its carbon neutral status recertified by Landcare Research for the period from June 2008 to July 2009. The airport company met the caroNZero requirements for the third year in …
Bee Keeping – Reclaiming the Ancient Craft
You Keep What??
This is the question I have had asked of me many times since I first put the idea of keeping bees out there. Some of the folks were finally convinced that …
Rainbow Healing & Learning Camp in Golden Bay
The Rainbow Healing and Learning Camp springs from a long tradition of education in healthy and conscientious lifestyles aimed at those who wish for inner healing. It is an exceptional opportunity …
Dreaming the BioSphere – the book is here
Q: What happens when a bunch of scientists and experimental actors head out to the desert to build a glass-sealed, lush wilderness world, complete with miniature rainforest, ocean, desert, organic farm, and plants from all …
Q & A with Hire Things CEO Iona Elwood-Smith
1. Can you describe Hire Things to Happyzine readers?
Hire Things is the online community where you can share resources by hiring in what you need and hiring out what you have. It’s like Trade …
Farm Environment Awards attract wide range
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Thursday, 26 November 2009, 12:33 pm
Press Release: Ballance Farm Environment awards
Media Release – November 26, 2009.
Ballance Farm Environment Awards attract a wide range of entries.
The Ballance Farm Environment Awards have attracted a strong range of …
Mulching – Why I’m Thrilled By It
Photo by JoePhoto
I never really thought of myself as a gardener. But over the past few years the urge to grow food has risen from within. Perhaps it’s the collective enthusiasm of the nation of …
Sustainability – Gary Williams
“Life has become increasingly CREATIVE. Life creates itself, and over time has self-generated greater and greater opportunities for further creativity.”
I think it’s important to recirculate useful material. This article was written back in 2001, yet …
If ecological design were widely adopted…, by Joanna Pearsall and Bryan Innes – Permaculture.org
If ecological design were widely adopted…, by Joanna Pearsall and Bryan Innes
Recently we (Joanna Pearsall and Bryan Innes)have been thinking about and discussing what would it look like if the principles of permaculture were …
Precious Water – Opportunity to Step Up For One of New Zealand’s Greatest Treasures
November 6th, 2009
Photo: Mohikinui River, by Craig Potton
Apparently we live in a nation of number eight wire type people, where innovative ideas are steaming away in the privacy of countless minds, and any thing’s possible. …
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