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Kia ora from a chilly Golden Bay, Aotearoa, New Zealand 👋🏼 I’m wearing my winter attire: gumboots and a Swanndri. This week I want to talk about your unique voice as a writer. We all have one and you are most certainly no exception. When you write your story, I invite you to relax and …
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Kia ora, Today I’d like to talk about spelling. Please don’t let fear of getting it wrong hold you back from writing your story. English is such a confusing language, because it’s a combo of around six older languages. For many years, although I loved writing creatively, I didn’t feel confident as a speller. People …
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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 …
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 …
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 A kitchen blender, broken bike lights and button-less pants were given new life at Nelson’s latest Repair Café.
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 …
Community Compost organiser Ben Bushell in front of Big Bertha Community Compost is going from strength to strength in Nelson, diverting tonnes of food waste from landfills. Community Compost organiser Ben Bushell says biking around town to collect the compost from homes and businesses has been a great way to promote their project. Ben is …
I write people's memoirs or biographies and lately I've come to realise our lives are so intertwined with others that it's hard to follow one person's story, without threading into the stories of those around us. Isn't that a beautiful thing? We're inately social beings. I've noticed that once the subject of the memoir has …
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Charlotte Squire 