Happyzine – where optimism and sustainability meet.
Charlotte Squire - Nelson Mail
Founded in 2007 by Charlotte Squire, Happyzine’s purpose so to inspire positive social and environmental change via good news. Happyzine is ‘solutions journalism’ – showcasing inspiring action and developments within fields that have generally been portrayed as beyond hope. There’s always hope. Happyzine is contributed to by dozens of change makers and writers who feel the same. Happyzine also offers a free weekly, Monday ezine (look right).
Here’s a 90 second video (thanks to the Regenerationcrew, about Charlotte Squire, the founder of Happyzine – including what inspired her to start it up, and what it’s all about:
Happy Feedback:
“Happyzine is phenomenal! Its putting a stick of dynamite up the *#^! of pessimistic, negative, gloom and doom spreaders!” Great Start House, Taita.
“Oh gorgeous! I love this little happy bomb arriving in my inbox! ” Meliors.
“Just wanted to say thanks – your ezine has been a lovely change from the NZ herald website I usually read here at work…Thanks again, you are making a difference to me and my staff!” Anna Simmonds, Wanaka.Web
“Hi Happyzine, we think your newsletters are great, keep em coming. Cheers, Elliot and the team and endemicworld.com.”
“Thanks for the lovely uplifting magazine again – the only newspaper I read these days …”Aroha Organic Goat Cheese
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The Happyzine Definition of Good News
Happyzine good-news stories demonstrate a fresh and inspiring perspective of anything from an everyday event, to one of the many challenges and/or opportunities that we as a society face. Happyzine material demonstrates the creative, the optimistic and the innovative. It shows that for every perceived obstacle, there are countless ways of moving through, around, or over it. It provides a forum for flexible, positively expectant thinkers to express their world-views about each other, our society, our environment and our ideas. It offers thoughtfully and creatively prepared news options to an audience who are mindful of what they focus upon.
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