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Change gear for the new year

How to keep your New Year's resolutions

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Spring clean your cuisine

Keen to undo the year's indulgences with a detox diet, Annabel McAleer discovers there's no such thing as a quick fix—but that doesn't stop her from trying

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New Zealand's foul dinners

The shocking truth about battery hens: the same tiny cages Europe has banned are being adopted in New Zealand

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Rainforests

Rainforests once covered 14 percent of the earth’s surface. Now they cover just six percent

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Happy holidays!

By The Goodies • December 19, 2008 • 0 comments

Good's taking a well-deserved break for the next couple of weeks, so there'll be no blogging from us for a while.

Thanks very much for reading the mag this year—we really, really appreciate your support and feedback.

Here's to a happy and safe Christmas holiday, great weather and an excellent 2009 for all of us.

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Thank you Peter Dunne

By Annabel McAleer • December 17, 2008 • 0 comments

article illustration Having a moan to an MP is not only cathartic, it's effective. But it's just as important to let politicians know you support them when they done good. Sometimes they even write back!

Plus: Peak oil is really real, says everyone.

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Super soaker

By Annabel McAleer • December 16, 2008 • 0 comments

article illustration I couldn't face engaging with the Great Shower Debate of '08, so forgive if me this dredges up bad memories, but this shower head contraption sure is cool

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This week in politics

By Annabel McAleer • December 12, 2008 • 0 comments

article illustration Biofuels, efficient lightbulbs and the ETS are out ... for now. Here's a quick update on what our new government has been up to. It's not happy reading.

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Greenwash spotting

By Annabel McAleer • December 11, 2008 • 1 comments

article illustration Can you separate the green from the wash? Help is at hand. The Commerce Commission has released greenwash guidelines for New Zealand businesses. meanwhile, new websites from Greenpeace and the University of Oregon analyse some shocking examples of greenwash from the US

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  • Happy holidays!

    By The Goodies, December 19, 2008

    Good's taking a well-deserved break for the next couple of weeks, so there'll be no blogging from us for a while.

    Thanks very much for reading the mag this year—we really, really appreciate your support and feedback.

    Here's to a happy and safe Christmas holiday, great weather and an excellent 2009 for all of us.

  • Thank you Peter Dunne
    article illustration

    By Annabel McAleer, December 17, 2008

    Having a moan to an MP is not only cathartic, it's effective. But it's just as important to let politicians know you support them when they done good. Sometimes they even write back!

    Plus: Peak oil is really real, says everyone.

  • Super soaker
    article illustration

    By Annabel McAleer, December 16, 2008

    I couldn't face engaging with the Great Shower Debate of '08, so forgive if me this dredges up bad memories, but this shower head contraption sure is cool

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Save our species! Aotearoa is losing its wildest inhabitants—and it's not only tuatara in trouble. Issue 4 of Good profiles 10 critters in crisis, and what you can do to help them. Plus: A million-dollar house ... for free.

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To celebrate and support New Zealand’s volunteers, Good magazine and Intrepid Travel have created the Intrepid Volunteers Challenge (gomad.co.nz) and social networking site, so charities and volunteers like you can connect and bring change.

The big idea is simply to reward our unsung heroes and make it easier for new volunteers to find a project that suits them. The Intrepid Volunteer of the Year will win a $5,000, all-expenses-paid Intrepid Travel volunteering holiday to any destination in the world, with spending money from Good magazine.

 

Latest comments

  • Brenda on Greenwash spotting:
    Alas they're only guidelines. - with worlds like "encourage to be honest" and "should explain". The commerce commision has no teeth.
  • Westmere Westie on Crafty cool:
    Kraftbomb is another great craft event at the Grey Lynn Community Centre on 21st of December. I attended the last one and there was heaps of  …
  • Annabel McAleer on Slip, slop, slap ... safe?:
    Thanks Chris, happy to help! Just to clarify, it's definitely exposure to the sun that causes melanoma. As far as I know there is no scienti  …
  • Chris on Slip, slop, slap ... safe?:
    Thank you for this informative article!  With skin cancer being such a big concern I always wondered - was it the sun (which is complet  …
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