Tis the season 🎄 What’s Christmas for you? For me it’s all about family. Oh and food, so much food. My siblings and their families will be gathering at my house, where my mother lives too, and we’ll be spending precious time together. The kids will bounce on the tramp, there may be water pistols. …
Meet Climate Love founder Charlotte
Meet Charlotte. She’s the mummy of Climate Love. Here’s some stuff you should know about her: 1. Why Climate Love? I’d been running the good news website Happyzine for years and I wanted to explore applying the power of solutions focused media to the climate issue. I was also keen to experience publishing an actual …
New reporter for Climate Love Nelson
Caption: Climate Love Nelson’s new reporter Joanna Divett is combining her passions for nature and writing. Climate Love Nelson’s new reporter Joanna Divett is combining her passions for nature and writing. Meet Nelson’s new Climate Love reporter - Joanna Divett Joanna Divett has recently returned to her hometown of Nelson after several years working as …
From chemical engineer to eco-project leader – meet Debbie
Debbie Pearson and her adolescent chicken Debbie Pearson loves a good bike ride around Golden Bay’s cycle lanes. Partly because she thrives outside in the elements, and also because she helped them exist. After training as a chemical engineer with a post grad diploma in dairy science and technology, Debbie spent the first 17 years …
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Getting back to the basics of social media on the Rameka Creek river bed, Golden Bay.
Tena koe, Charlotte Squire here. I run Climate Love - two tiny, local newspapers plus online media - and I live with my whānau (family) in my tūrangawaewae (place to stand) Mohua/Golden Bay. Yet another majestic river in Golden Bay. I took this pic yesterday while filming on the Wainui River. Are you creating or …
How to build connection to grow your business or project
Are you building a sustainable business and trying to figure out how to reach more people about it? These days there are an overwhelming amount of ways to communicate with people about your mahi, but simple is good. You only need a handful of tools and the key is to build positive, trusting relationships. Download …
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Duck egg Victoria Sponge
I mean come on! Yum! Kia Ora, Charlotte here, Climate Love girl! I am passionate about local food. The Nelson Farmers Market, who supply 100% local Kai (food) supplied this gorgeous recipe using four big fat duck eggs. Climate Love founder Charlotte Squire This light, golden sponge cake is made with duck eggs for a …
Repair Café spares landfill, connects people
Repair Café spares landfill, connects people A kitchen blender, broken bike lights and button-less pants were given new life at Nelson’s latest Repair Café.
New local food shop coming to Golden Bay
The team behind the new local food shop - from left Sukie Conley, Elliot Cleland and Charlotte Squire. People in Golden Bay will soon be able to source 100% locally grown fruit and veggies from one shop, near town, twice a week. The Local Food Shop, a new shop based at ‘the Kiosk’ at the …
How to stay ‘up’ – 6 powerful practices for eco-entrepreneurs + video.
A friend I know, who works in the sustainability sector as I do, recently emailed me and asked ‘How do you do it? How do you stay ‘up’ through these times with Covid, climate change, and uncertainty?’ I love this question because I put heaps of effort into staying up and I think many people …
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New programme will teach locals about regenerative, organic growing
A new, free programme at the Golden Bay Sustainable Living Centre will teach participants organic growing and more, introducing them to regenerative horticulture.
Nelson ReStore eases housing shortage – story + video
Since moving to Tahunanui Drive eight months ago, Nelson ReStore has stepped up to a whole new level of community supported action. Nelson ReStore manager manager Becky Wyatt Around 100 volunteers help the enormous op shop tick along each day, raising funds that go towards easing the housing shortage in Nelson. Nelson ReStore manager Becky Wyatt says, …
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September in the garden – by organic gardener Sol Morgan
Early potatoes popping through soil in September Blossoms herald the shift into spring and the beginning of the main growing season. Garden bed preparation A busy time for the keen gardener, as bed preparation tops the list in the vegetable garden. Go over beds with a fork, weeding dock, buttercup and couch especially, followed by …
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Climate positive printing in Wakefield
Lindsay and Genie Bradley of Promote You are thinking of their children’s futures in going climate positive. A Wakefield printing business is going above and beyond in their efforts to operate sustainably, running on solar as much as they can, and asking suppliers to stop sending plastic. Lindsay Bradley from Promote You says he and partner Genie’s …
Just turn it off, says Suse
Golden Bay librarian Suse Toder says we don’t need to leave our cars running anymore. Golden Bay resident Suse Toder would like people to think about not idling their cars, both to save on fuel costs and to reduce greenhouse emissions. Suse says that in the UK, Canada, US, and Germany it’s illegal to leave your car running to …
Anita’s found and foraged baskets
Anita Peters with a wild basket she made using willow and other “random branches” from trees that were washed up on Pohara Beach after a recent storm. East Takaka resident Anita Peters delights in making baskets from material she finds in her environment. She uses plants such as banana passion vine, harakeke, muehlenbeckia, wild riverside …
Charlotte Squire 