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Fair ground attraction
By Sarah Heeringa • August 16, 2010 • 2 comments
Wellington and Dunedin have officially been Fair Trade Cities since 2009. Plans are now afoot to help their big, bad northern sister take the same step. The Aucklander reports on progress to date. More …
Road trip north? Here's where to eat!
By Annabel McAleer • August 13, 2010 • 0 comments
If you're into slow food or smart tourism, take part in the public voting for the Manaakitanga Awards (Rodney District’s hospitality and tourism awards). The list of finalists is the definitive list of stop-and-have-a-bite points for your next jaunt north of Auckland. More …
Sleeping in eco-style
By Holly Jean Brooker • August 11, 2010 • 0 comments
Holly Jean Brooker decides to staycation in Auckland, for one last rendezvous before hitting Western Australia, and chooses to sleep in style at Auckland hotel The Quadrant. More …
Buying your own Top Bar Hive
By Sarah Heeringa • August 9, 2010 • 0 comments
Top Bar hives are the new craze in natural bee keeping circles. You can make your own (using instructions from Good magazine, issue 14) or you can buy one! More …
Ask a naturopath: improving sperm quality
By Eric Bakker ND • August 9, 2010 • 0 comments
A Good reader writes: "My partner and I have recently been told that our chances of getting pregnant naturally are very slim due to a low sperm count. We are both non-smokers, do moderate exercise and try to eat healthy most of the time. Is there anything you can recommend to help improve sperm quality and increase our chances of a natural conception?" More …
Thinking of keeping bees?
By Janet Luke • August 9, 2010 • 10 comments
Meet Good's new blogger—the gardening, chook and top-bar bee keeping dynamo Janet Luke. Read Janet's first installment on getting started with your own top bar garden hive. More …
The Vegan Baker: Chocolate Cake
By Miyuki McGuffie • August 9, 2010 • 2 comments
This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie brings us a recipe for the ubiquitous chocolate cake—made without butter and eggs. More …
Sayonara, sustainability
By Nick Potter • August 6, 2010 • 1 comments
Make a cup of tea and pull your chair a little closer ... newly eligible bachelor Nick Potter spills the intimate details about why he broke up with sustainability, who he's playing around with now—and why he's chosen to be polyamorous (with words, that is). More …
Make your own vintage cake stand
By Sarah Heeringa • August 5, 2010 • 0 comments
Vintage high tea is perfect for cheering up a gloomy late-winter afternoon. Upcycle your favourite old plates or other odd bits and bobs lying about to add a bit of syle with a gorgeous vintage looking cake stand. More …
Life between two worlds
By Ali Shariat • August 4, 2010 • 2 comments
When you have two passports, you're free to switch between two identities—but sometimes, neither of them feel real. Iranian-Kiwi Ali Shariat ponders the million-dollar question that most migrant youth ask themselves: who am I? More …
What do Kirsten Morrell, Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Oliver Driver have in common?
By Sarah Heeringa • August 3, 2010 • 0 comments
The deadline for this year's eco youth film challenge is coming up. And this time there's a star-studded cast of ambassadors on board. More …
The global warming 'debate'—in pictures
By Annabel McAleer • August 3, 2010 • 3 comments
I've not noticed it in New Zealand media too much recently—maybe because it seems no one has been writing much about climate change recently—but it's definitely a huge problem in the US and UK: the over-reporting of climate change controversies in the media. This graphic neatly shows the gulf between public perception (in the US) and scientific consensus, with the media screwing things up in the middle. More …
Coffee to go ... in my made-in-NZ cup, please!
By Sarah Marquet • August 3, 2010 • 9 comments
Sarah Marquet feeds her coffee addiction, reduces her rubbish and sticks to her made-in-NZ challenge with the help of a Kiwi-made reusable coffee cup. Not only is it totally reusable, it is also 100% recyclable. More …
Dargaville Girl Guides embark on world record attempt
By Hazel Murray • July 28, 2010 • 3 comments
The Dargaville Girl Guides are trying to break the world record for the longest chain of bras. To top it off, as many as 200,000 high-quality bras will be sent overseas to women in Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Haiti. The record attempt aims to raise awareness of breast cancer. More …
The Vegan Baker: Soft Cinnamon Cookies
By Miyuki McGuffie • July 26, 2010 • 1 comments
This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie tries her hand at an American classic and ends up with something else altogether! More …
Are NZ-made beauty products up to the task of keeping Kiwis beautiful?
By Sarah Marquet • July 20, 2010 • 5 comments
Sarah reviews a range of NZ-made beauty products and decides which ones work best for her. More …
Floating wetlands to combat algal scum
By Lynda Brendish • July 20, 2010 • 0 comments
A Bay of Plenty Regional Council and Te Arawa Lakes Trust initiative is working with schools and the community to construct floating wetlands on Rotorua lakes. They hope to provide new habitat for fish and birds, and hopefully remove some harmful nutrients from the lakes' waters. More …
What does meaningful work involve?
By Nate Savill • July 9, 2010 • 0 comments
Blacksmithing apprentice and Good blogger Nate Savill tackles the question of what our jobs should bring to our lives—and the lives of those around us. More …
Visiting Grey Lynn farmers market could win you $5,000
By Lynda Brendish • July 9, 2010 • 0 comments
We might have trouble with sheds, but the slow food movement is alive and well in Central Auckland. This weekend's Grey Lynn farmers market has food, live music and bicycle repair—and the chance to win $5,000. More …
The end of the supermarket-free era
By Savenna Rutherford • July 9, 2010 • 6 comments
Will Tong, Rachel de Lacey and their three children have finished their challenge to live for six months without a supermarket, but they didn’t go rushing back to a supermarket when the challenge was done. Now begins the quest for the perfect balance between convenience and consciousness. More …
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