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Good start
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Editorial
on working green
10 The Goodies
Sarah Heeringa, Susan Elijas, David Baird, Paul Thompson
13 Your letters
A Good-inspired makeover
14 Good times
Music and beer
17 News
Mostly good news from around the world
21 Pen or pencil?
Good choice: Back to school, back to work ... but should you reach for pens or old-fashioned pencils?
21 Coral reefs
Convenient truths about: Coral reefs are home to 25 percent of all marine species ... and they're disappearing fast
23 Good reads
Good reads: Win with Te Radar and Organic Explorer
24 Too flash to flush
Good question: Why does my toilet paper have dolphins on it?
26 Good stuff
Lovely, ethical, useful stuff
28 Siobhan Marshall
My green journey: Could Siobhan Marshall be New Zealand's most beautiful vegetarian—and our most hopeless gardener? Best known as Pascall West in the TV series Outrageous Fortune, Siobhan tells Good what put her off meat for life, and why she'll eat her veggies—but she can't grow or cook them
32 Walker
Local heroes: Lesley Reece, Oxfam Trailwalker and marathon runner
35 Winegrowers
Local heroes: Father-and-daughter team Sara and Allen Scott on why they're going organic.
Features
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Does the earth move for you?
Action: As more and more city-dwellers dig up their lawns to plant veggies and herbs, there's just one question on our minds: why? meets the new Kiwi gardeners
42 Nice work (if you can get it)
Action: Leaders from Germany to Korea are promising to turn around their economies ... by turning around the environment. investigates green jobs in New Zealand. It's nice work—but can you get it?
52 Turning over a new leaf
Action: How hemp earned the name 'weed', we'll never know. Annabel McAleer uncovers the many uses for this much-maligned super grass, while Sarah James discovers that hemp is headed straight to the high-end
58 Sink or swim
Action: Melissa Clark-Reynolds turned her own life around—twice—as well as a few failing companies. She's convinced hundreds of Kiwis to do something about climate change, and now she wants you to stop shopping. meets the entrepreneur dynamo
The goods
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Drive like a Dutchman
Transport: Drive smarter, save money. Plus: Eco-rally driving?!?
68 How to hypermile
Transport: Fuel-efficient driving is easy. Here are ten tips (in no particular order) that can massively reduce your fuel bill
72 10 reasons to buy an electric car
Technology: New Zealand's first mainstream electric car
74 Chasing gold
Travel: Cycle Central Otago—at any age
82 New Zealand's naked chef
Food: Meet Angus Allen, maker of Naked Organics
83 Bun in the oven
Food: Make your own bread
84 When red means go
Food: Red hot bell peppers
87 Head start
Garden: As the summer harvest clears our garden beds, it's time to prepare the garden for winter—and grow some broccoli
88 Get packing
Family: Eco school lunches your kids will eat
93 Re-invent a tired old chair
How to: Stylist shows how to create a new chair covering in eight steps, using a fine-looking hemp fabric from Hemptech
95 Balmy days of summer
Health: Natural lip balms that really work
Good bits
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Hooray for (eco) taxes
Business: An eco-passport for New Zealand? explains
97 The beautiful and the scammed
Eco-worrier: Age before beauty, says author
98 Let's not do the time warp again
Gaia and brimstone: rings the changes
99 Are we giving up on poverty?
The green room: The Millennium Development Goals were a promise to end poverty in the developing world. Why is New Zealand falling behind in its commitment?
100 In praise of picnics
Good housekeeping: Skip plastic food and pack a picnic
103 Cut the crap
Action: 10-step help for shopping addicts
104 Rudolph Steiner Kindergarten
The good life: Painting, drawing, crafts, baking, singing, games and stories ... what more could you ask for?
