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Tag Archives: Paul Murray
Italian Director Denied Entry to Complete Karamea Doco
By Aimee van der Weyden Friday Mar 4, 2016 The foreign director of a documentary film about Karamea is unable to return to finish filming because he was deported at Auckland Airport. Marco Gianstefani from Milan, Italy, spent two … Continue reading
Posted in 107.5 FM, Art, Artist, Artist-in-residency programme, Bureaucracy, Business, Department of Conservation, DOC, Environment, Environmentally Responsible Business, Heaphy Track, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, Karamea Estuary Enhancement Project, Karamea Radio, Karamea Radio 107.5 FM, LivinginPeace Project, Marco Gianstefani, Media, Nature, New Zealand, Oparara, Oparara Basin, Paul Murray, Permaculture, Photography, Politics, Power, Radio, Radio Karamea, Resident artist, Rongo, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, Social Commentary, South Island, Sustainability, Sustainablity, Travel, Uncategorized, West Coast
Tagged Art, Doco, Documentary, Documentary film, Film, Immigration N.Z., Immigration New Zealand, karamea, Karamea Farm Baches, Karamea The Movie, LivinginPeace Project, Marco Gianstefani, New Zealand, Paul Murray, Permaculture, Photography, Rongo, Rongo Backpackers, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, Social Commentary, South Island, Travel, West Coast
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LED Technician Pete Jenkins Lights up Rongolia
Off the Top of my Head By Paul Murray Rongo Backpackers & Gallery in Karamea at the top of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand has just reduced its lighting power consumption by over 85% by … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Efficiency, Electricity, Forever Lights, LED Lighting, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Permaculture, Peter Jenkins, Power, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, South Island, Sustainability, West Coast
Tagged Art, Autumn Arena, Business, DJ Crap, Economics, education, Efficiency, Electricity, Forever Lights, Karamea Radio 107.5 FM, LED Lights, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Paul Murray, Permaculture, Peter Jenkins, Power, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, South Island, Sustainability, The Oasis, West Coast
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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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The Incredible Adventures of a Swedish Centenarian
Off the Top of my Head By Paul Murray Book Review: “The 100-year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared” By Jonas Jonasson A fertile imagination is not something you’d expect from a person with … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Drugs, Economics, Education, Funny, Hilarious, Historical, Humor, Humour, Money, Politics, Product review, Social Commentary, Sweden, Travel, United States, War
Tagged Allan Karlsson, Book Review, Funny, Good Read, Hilarious, Jonas Jonasson, Off the Top of my Head, Paul Murray, Sweden, The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared
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LivingInPeace Project Resident Artist Retrospective
Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray When friend Erik Sanner became a “struggling artist” stereotype and almost starved on the hard streets of Tokyo, I thought something should be done. I’d written a couple of articles about Sanner … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Arwen Dyer, Belgium, Business, Canada, Economics, Education, Environment, Germany, Heaphy Track, Historical, Humor, Humour, Japan, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, Karamea Radio, LivinginPeace Project, Marco Gianstefani, Media, Music, New York, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Peace, Permaculture, Photography, Radio, Social Commentary, Sustainablity, Tramping, Travel, United States, West Coast
Tagged Almut Prange, Art, artist/, Arwen Dyer, Dave Besseling, Dejana Lukac, Donald Reid, Ed Davis, Elise London, Erik Sanner, Gallery, Jason Ponzuric, karamea, Karamea Radio, Kristin Mikrut, Kyle Browne, LivinginPeace Project, Louca, Louis-Philippe Carretta, Marco Gianstefani, Music, New Zealand, Norma Burrowes, Painting, Paolo Baccolo, Paul Murray, Ponzi, PsoMan, Radio, Residency, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, Shoto Kawahara, Silvia Bazzini, South Island, Travel, Tzook Marcel Har-Paz, West Coast
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DJ Crap & the Big Man Call it Quits….For Now…
Off the Top of my Head By Paul Murray It’s over. DJ Crap and the Big Man have hung up their headphones and are officially on sabbatical after teaming up for 500 consecutive Wednesday nights to present their Blues Show … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blues, Business, Funny, Hilarious, Historical, Humor, Humour, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, Karamea Radio, LivinginPeace Project, Media, Music, New Zealand, Radio, Social Commentary, Travel, Weird, West Coast
Tagged Big Man, Blues, Brian Thomson, Comedy, Community Radio, DJ Crap, DJ Crap & the Big Man Show, Funk, Funny, Hilarious, Humor, Humour, Jazz, karamea, Karamea Radio 107.5 FM, LivinginPeace Project, New Zealand, Paul Murray, Radio, Radio Karamea, Rock'n'Roll, Rongo, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, Soul, South Island, West Coast
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Tokyo X: Orwellian Photographs of Modern Japan
Book Review by Paul Murray In 1984, veteran Tokyo-based photographer Shunji Ohkura was channel surfing and came across a television documentary discussing George Orwell’s novel “1984.”The programme was debating whether the modern world was a manifestation of Orwell’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Art, Book Review, Economics, Education, Environment, Fashion, Historical, Japan, Karamea, LivinginPeace Project, Media, New Zealand, Photography, Politics, Religion, Social Commentary, United States
Tagged Book Review, Japan, Ohkura Shunji, Paul Murray, Photography, Tokyo
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Karamea Radio Interview with Trail-Running Vickis
Trail Runners Vicki Woolley & Vicki Quinn arrived in Karamea after running the Heaphy Track in two days. They stayed at Rongo Backpackers & Gallery in Karamea and enjoyed a Heaphy Conqueror’s Feast, visited the Oparara Basin arches and caves … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Department of Conservation, DOC, Education, Environment, Heaphy Track, Kahurangi National Park, Karamea, Karamea Radio, LivinginPeace Project, Media, Mountain Biking, MTB, New Zealand, Oparara, Permaculture, Photography, Product review, Radio, Social Commentary, Sport, Sustainablity, Tramping, Travel, West Coast
Tagged Fitness, Heaphy Track, Interview, Kahurangi National Park, karamea, Karamea Radio 107.5 FM, LivinginPeace Project, Oparara, Outdoors, Paul Murray, Radio Karamea, Rongo, Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, Sport, Trail Running, Vicki Quinn, Vicki Woolley
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The Rongolian Star 
Co.Starters Pitch Business Ideas @ EPIC Celebration Night
Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray The 16 participants in the inaugural Co.Starters programme from Ross to Karamea on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand came together with programme sponsors, facilitators and invited … Continue reading →
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