Cycle-share schemes for the next generation

Christchurch: The little organic shop the community bought

by Steve Carter

Christchurch: New Brighton residents embrace mural art – with multiple benefits

Christchurch: The extraordinary emerging community, two years on …

Greening the Rubble: Planting the seeds of freedom – by Steve Carter

Christchurch: A Hub For Healthy Youth Development

Christchurch: A food revolution from the ground up

Christchurch: Flourish – the conference about thriving – by Steve Carter

A conference with a flourish by Steve Carter Local Good News/Christchurch What is it to really flourish? Obviously, the answer to such a question is multifaceted and complex, so anyone organising a conference on the subject needs to be ...

Christchurch: Thrive – the conference about flourishing by Steve Carter

Christchurch: Flourish – the conference about thriving – by Steve Carter

A conference with a flourish by Steve Carter Local Good News/Christchurch What is it to really flourish? Obviously, the answer to such a question is multifaceted and complex, so anyone organising a conference on the subject needs to be ...

Christchurch: No Gallery Required

Local Good News/Christchurch Steve Carter “Wow”, you might well think as you see another wall adorned with a new work of art, “What is that?” Wandering around Christchurch these days is like taking a stroll among the pieces ...

Christchurch: No Gallery Required

7th Birthday Bash for Lyttelton Farmers Market

Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word

Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word

Local Good News/Christchurch by Steve Carter There’s been ‘Shaking’ and there’s been “Quaking’ … kind of lends itself to poetry, right? Actually, there has been something of a gentle ban on earthquake doggerel at the Catalyst open-mic poetry ...

Christchurch: Garden City 2.0 – taking ownership from the flaxroots up

by Steve Carter Local Good News/Christchurch How about we do the Garden City differently this time around? Alongside many of the changes wrought by the Christchurch earthquakes, there has been a seizing of opportunities to rethink the ways ...

Christchurch: Garden City 2.0 – taking ownership from the flaxroots up

Keeping old places alive in Christchurch

Recapturing Our Sense Of Neat

Brighton Up!

Anonymous love letters to Christchurch discovered – by Steve Carter

Local Good News/Christchurch ‘Dear Christchurch, you are incredible’ – by Steve Carter The American writer Anatole Broyard said, “In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used ...

Anonymous love letters to Christchurch discovered – by Steve Carter

Christchurch youth time-banking to create 10,000 strong rock-concert

Gap Filler: painting Christchurch like a canvas

Local Good News/Christchurch by Steve Carter It’s about vacant spaces. We certainly have a lot of them in Christchurch right now. More importantly, it is about how we choose to engage with those spaces and how those choices ...

Gap Filler: painting Christchurch like a canvas

Christchurch: From rags to rethreads

Christchurch: From rags to rethreads

Local Good News/Christchurch By Steve Carter Briar Cook is making me a skirt. Leaving aside for now the reasons why that might be, I’m assured that it will be “kiltish and kick-ass.” That suits me just fine. Besides, ...

Christchurch: Another Galloping Gourmet by Steve Carter

Local Good News/ Christchurch by Steve Carter Picture the scene. It’s been a busy day, you’re tired and you really don’t feel like cooking dinner. A takeaway beckons: cheekily, annoyingly. You know that it’s not really the best food. ...

Christchurch: Another Galloping Gourmet by Steve Carter

Local Good News/ Christchurch by Steve Carter Picture the scene. It’s been a busy day, you’re tired and you really don’t feel like cooking dinner. A takeaway beckons: cheekily, annoyingly. You know that it’s not really the best food. ...

Christchurch: Places of Tranquillity by Steve Carter

Local Good News Report/Christchurch Places of Tranquillity “We’ve lost our places of tranquillity.” This was a feeling expressed to Michelle Whitaker, Coordinator of Healthy Christchurch, at a public forum following September 2010. The beaches were largely inaccessible for ...