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Crafty cool

Arts, crafts, zines, fashion, live music, local indie film, cupcakes and more ...

A craft fair but not as you know it. Wander through stalls of kitsch and quirky crafts while being entertained by live music and local indie film. More …

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Furoshiki eco gift wrapping

Furoshiki gift wrapping is a great solution for those of us wishing to avoid the Chrsitmas aftermath of used giftwrap. More …

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Frock shock

Join hundreds of women to urge action on global warming, public transport and frocks More …

 

Back at square one?

The Act Party’s proposed supply and confidence agreement with National has an archival quality to it. You might find yourself double-checking the date at the top, because the language, the stance, the dogma is straight from the 1980s. Rodney Hide actually intends to try and re-litigate climate change science. More …

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The meaning of a Slow lunch

The Hilton Hotel’s White Restaurant was asked to deliver a three-course menu to match Kumeu River wines, produced less than 20km from downtown Auckland. The chef’s Slow Food spread has our mouths watering. More …

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Hot, flat, obsessed

Green is really red, white and blue, argues American author Thomas Friedman. If you disagree, why not write the last chapter in his book? More …

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Water works

We know that eventually even New Zealand, which is deluged in more rain that we can handle, must face up to the world-wide water crisis. It’s taken a business group to seize the nettle and produce a very good thought-starter on water, business and the rest of us. More …

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Want an electric scooter?

Buy Good from Whitcoulls, and you could win an electric scooter! More …

 

Meat is good

I like Good magazine, but I have a gripe. You lose me when you imply that meat eating is a no-no from an environmental point of view. More …

 

Biz goes schizoid over the ETS

There’s a really interesting debate going on between business groups about the pros and cons of the proposed Emission Trading Scheme. It’s now beyond a simple ‘business vs environment’ discussion, in which business is cast as the polluting villain and the environment is the long suffering victim. More …

 

Musicians for Mauis

New Zealand musicians unite to save our flippered friends More …

 

Good honest produce

Honesty box in central Auckland? Why not? More …

 

Traffic alert

Big green bush spotted traveling down Auckland's Victoria Street East! More …

 

Wake up and smell the coffee

From today, all espresso coffee served in the 78 Wild Bean Cafés nationwide will be made from Fairtrade certified beans—wow. Head along to a free screening of Black Gold at Cinema 4, Rialto, Newmarket at 6pm today, Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th June. More …

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Guerilla gardening

It amazes me that the guerilla gardening movement has not caught on more in Godzone. Maybe it's because Transit NZ and our city councils already invest a decent effort to make our public spaces so green and flowery. More …

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    We picked a winner with this one: Treetops Lodge, featured in our first issue, has just been named the best hotel in New Zealand by Travel + Leisure magazine in the US

  • Happy holidays!

    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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    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!

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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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