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Tag Archives: Environment
Karamean Foodies Visit Tasman Artisans On Quest for Gastronomic Enlightenment
Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray A group of eight Karameans travelled to the Tasman region on September 26 and 27, 2018, to visit artisan food processing and production facilities in Nelson and Upper Moutere with the … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Community, Community-Led Development, Economics, Environmentally Responsible Business, Karamea, New Zealand, Paul Murray, Social Enterprise, South Island, Sustainability, Uncategorized, West Coast
Tagged Branding, Business, Environment, Foodies, karamea, Marketing, Social Enterprise, West Coast South Island New Zealand
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Karamea Food-Branding Initiative Gathers Momentum
Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray Buller Community Development Facilitator Peter Howard recently presented information at the Karamea Bowling Club about a proposal to establish a “social enterprise” in Karamea to bolster the local economy, create employment and … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Australia, Buller District Council, Business, Economics, Education, Efficiency, Environment, Environmentally Responsible Business, Gardening, Health, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, Money, Nature, Oparara, Oparara Basin, Oparara Valley Track, Paul Murray, Permaculture, Photography, Social Commentary, Social Enterprise, Social Equity, South Island, Sustainability, Travel, Uncategorized, West Coast
Tagged Akina Foundation, Buller REAP, Business, education, Environment, EPIC Westport, Food Brand, Innovation and Employmnet, Kahurangi National Park, Kangaroo Island, karamea, MBIE, Ministry of Business, Paul Murray, Permaculture, Peter Howard, Social Enterprise, South Island, Sustainability
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Man-Bear Possum Terrifies Kahurangi NP People
DOC Uses Mutant Possum Threat to Justify Massive Aerial Poison Blitz Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray The mystery of the New Zealand Government’s persistence with aerial baiting of vast regions of the “Clean-Green/100%Pure” country with 1080 poison was revealed yesterday by … Continue reading
Posted in 1080, Conservation, Department of Conservation, DOC, Environment, Funny, Heaphy Track, Hilarious, Humor, Humour, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Parody, Paul Murray, Photography, Politics, Satire, Social Commentary, South Island, Uncategorized, West Coast
Tagged 1080, Environment, Funny, Heaphy Track, Hilarious, Humor, Humour, Kahurangi National Park, karamea, Man-Bear Possum, New Zealand, Paul Murray, Photos, Politics, Social Commentary, South Island, West Coast
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The History of the LivingInPeace Project
Off the Top of my Head By Paul Murray In 2002, while working as a journalist for The Daily Yomiuri in Japan, I was actively involved in the international peace movement that was protesting the planned unprovoked invasion of Iraq … Continue reading
Posted in 107.5 FM, Art, Artist, Artist-in-residency programme, Business, Environmentally Responsible Business, Heaphy Track, Historical, Japan, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, Karamea Radio, Karamea Radio 107.5 FM, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Paul Murray, Peace, Permaculture, Photography, Resident artist, Rongo, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, South Island, Sustainability, Uncategorized, West Coast
Tagged Art, Environment, Heaphy Track, Karamea Radio 107.5 FM, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Permaculture, Photography, Photos, Rongo, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, South Island, Sustainability, Travel, West Coast
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Scottish Artist Andy Goldsworthy Enhances Nature
Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy creates transitory works of art by arranging leaves, sticks, rocks or anything else he can find. “When I make something, in a field or street, it may vanish but it’s part of the history of those … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artist, Conservation, Environment, Environmentally Responsible Business, Nature, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Andy Goldsworthy, Art, Ecology, Environment, Nature
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Bye Bye Fluffy
Python Devours Children’s Pet Piglet Off the Top of my Head By Paul Murray Sometime in the dark of night on November 11, 2015 a young carpet python slithered silently into the home of Lilly and Fluffy Thompson, wound its … Continue reading
PermaBlitz by Elise Burkevics: Ten Days from Jungle to Garden
Photo blog of permaculture garden design at the LivingInPeace Project in Karamea New Zealand by Elise Burkevics. Continue reading
Posted in Elise Burkevics, Environment, Environmentally Responsible Business, Gardening, Karamea, Kyla McLachlan, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Paul Murray, PDC, PermaBlitz, Permaculture, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, South Island, Sustainablity, West Coast
Tagged Agriculture, Art, backpackers, Business, education, Elise Burkevics, Environment, Gardening, karamea, KylaMcLachlan, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Paul Murray, Permaculture, Permaculture Design Course, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, South Island, Sustainability, Urrbrae Agricultural High School, West Coast
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Monbiot Gets Wild About Rewilding
Book Review: “Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life” by George Monbiot Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray Oxford-educated Zoologist and writer George Monbiot takes on the subject of rewilding in his latest book “Feral” and … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Australia, Book Review, Education, Environment, Money, New Zealand, Permaculture, Photography, Politics, Product review, Social Commentary, Sustainablity, United States
Tagged "Feral", Book Review, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, George Monbiot, Paul Murray, Rewilding, Sustainability, Yellowstone National Park
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DOC Plans Unprecedented 1080 Operation in Kahurangi National Park
The following letter was sent out to residents of the Northern Buller district regarding proposed resource consent application by the “Department of Conservation” to permit the government body to aerially poison 113, 699 hectares of the Kahurangi National Park. The … Continue reading
Posted in 1080, Agriculture, Buller District Council, Business, Department of Conservation, DOC, Economics, Education, Environment, Heaphy Track, Historical, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, LivinginPeace Project, Money, Mountain Biking, MTB, New Zealand, Oparara, Permaculture, Politics, Product review, Social Commentary, Sustainablity, Tramping, Travel, West Coast
Tagged 100% Pure New Zealand, 1080, Clean Green New Zealand, Department of Conservation, DOC, Economics, Environment, Kahurangi National Park, karamea, New Zealand, Pest Control, Poison, possums, Sodium monofluroacetate, Sustainability, Tourism, toxin
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Burning Woman Throws Baby
Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray When a large macrocarpa tree blew down in front of his house in a storm, Granity artist and bon vivant Peter Whitaker saw it as a sign, “It was like a … Continue reading →
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