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Cycle Central Otago—at any age
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In technology
10 reasons to buy an electric car
New Zealand's first mainstream electric car
In food
New Zealand's naked chef
Meet Angus Allen, maker of Naked Organics
In action
Cut the crap
10-step help for shopping addicts
In good question
Too flash to flush
Why does my toilet paper have dolphins on it?
In local heroes
Walker
Lesley Reece, Oxfam Trailwalker and marathon runner
In transport
Drive like a Dutchman
Drive smarter, save money. Plus: Eco-rally driving?!?
In action
Talk politics
Who does your local MP represent? You! Don't wait for a national election to let a cabinet minister or your local MP know what’s on your mind
In action
Save the whales
And a couple of dolphins, an eel, a few fish, a kiwi, tuatara and some cute little baby sea lions
Good blog
A spotters’ guide to greenwash— and greenwank
By Kath Dewar • yesterday • 0 comments
As the business world discovers there’s money and consumer favour to be found in not trashing the planet, most marketers are struggling to catch up. Immersed in the art of promoting style over substance and inventing products for needs you never knew you had, genuine sustainability can take us marketers some getting used to.
A bike movement
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • 2 days ago • 3 comments
Despite its numerous hills, San Francisco routinely places in various top ten lists for 'best bicycling cities' in the country and world. It’s about to get better. Read all about the city's bike infrastructure, bike bars, bike nudity and bike-powered music ...
Good housekeeping tips #7
By Barbara Good • 3 days ago • 0 comments
"Make your own cleaning products using natural products such as vinegar and baking soda. An internet search on the subject will bring up lots of different recipes to try. It's cheaper and more economically friendly than conventional cleaners and is chemical free."—Mary Shirley
Email from San Jose
By Georgia Stephenson • 4 days ago • 0 comments
Georgia Stephenson spent two weeks in in Costa Rica, completing a biomimicry workshop. Here is her email from the field ... We arrived back in San Jose yesterday evening, with packs full of damp clothes (90 percent humidity), boots sticky with rainforest earth and limbs dotted with mosquito bites, heads full to the brim of information on the methodology of biomimcry and the sights, sounds, smells and feel of nature ...
Gib-stopping and carpal tunnel
By Judy Sutherland • 5 days ago • 0 comments
With tiles successfully, and almost painlessly, laid I am ready to tackle my next learning curve: gib-stopping. Our professional gib-stopper friend was sought; a broad knife and a chamfered broad knife borrowed or bought, and friend’s wisdom gained—well, a small impartation of it, anyway! One also has paper tape (sticky on one side), corner strip and joint compound (herewith called “goo”) which resembles a sloppy plaster-of-paris.
Good is good: it's official
By Annabel McAleer • June 26, 2009 • 3 comments
Last night's MPA Awards were all good for Good, which won the hotly contested 'Best Launch/Relaunch' category against stiff competition from Mindfood and Oh Baby. But Good art director Adrian Clapperton was best in show, winning the Supreme Designer of the Year and Supreme Cover of the Year for his work on Good and Idealog. Idealog also won the award for Best Use of Photography, while Good was highly commended for the 'Genuine articles' feature in issue three.
My milk dilemma
By Miyuki McGuffie • June 25, 2009 • 7 comments
Milk has never been my beverage of choice. Flavoured, yes and on cereal, of course! But the fact remains that I don’t actually like it. I’ve drunk trim my entire life (breast aside) and continue to do so because I don’t like the taste of 'real' milk. A few years back my bf and I tried soy but for various reasons didn’t stick with it.
Inside out
By Sarah Jefferies • June 24, 2009 • 14 comments
With officially 12 weeks and 12 kilograms gone there's only ten kilograms to go to achieve my goal! It has not been too hard to stick to this healthy way of being. But I have discovered that health is much more than solely a diet. It is a whole way of being.
