Good—simple choices for a better life

Good start

4 Editorial

Tell us what you think

6 The Goodies

Derek Henderson, Lauren Bartlett, Alessandra Zecchini, Jessica Lax

8 Letters

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11 News

Mostly good news from around the globe

13 Good glossary, part 2

Action: What does it all mean? Eco-speak from the green revolution

13 Pellet fires vs woodburners

Good choice: As darkness and winter chills kick in there’s comfort—primal pleasure even—in the sight of leaping flames. If you love fire, what’re your best options?

13 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Convenient truths about: Ten convenient truths about the world's biggest rubbish dump

16 Good Reads

Good reads: In Defence of Food, Sting, Kai Ora and Dig

18 Bouquets and knickers

Good question: Local flowers, sustainable undies and the annoying truth about toothpaste tubes

20 Good Stuff

Good stuff: Win lots of nice stuff

22 Lucy Lawless

My green journey: New Zealand’s own Warrior Princess once played Greenpeace head Bunny McDiarmid in the Rainbow Warrior tele-movie. Now, the eco-warrior is backing a Greenpeace campaign on climate change. Lucy Lawless speaks to Good

25 Filmmakers

Power of two: Dean Easterbrook and Qiujing Wong

Features

26 Good food, no worries

Trying to eat healthy and please the family, while being kind to the environment and your wallet? It’s tough—but not impossible, says Andy Kenworthy. Here’s how to outsmart your supermarket, with shopping strategies for families of all sizes.

34 Carbon 101

Can changing a lightbulb make a difference? Nope—but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. Annabel McAleer takes it back to basics, to discover how carbon became the c-word of the 21st century

44 Live well, spend less

Destitute Gourmet Sophie Grey has been living on less for over a decade. Sarah Heeringa talks with the penny-pinching genius whose time has come

The goods

56 Instant vintage

Style: Three easy shabby chic DIY projects

60 Salutary sanctuary

Home: A healthy home that breathes

62 Warm up your weekends

Travel: Close-to-home ideas to cosy up these winter weekends

64 Not having a bar of it

Beauty: Soapy suds: raising the bar on palm oil use.

67 'Tis the season

Family: The quick guide to your warm winter solstice celebration

70 Bisphenol-A

Health: Should you worry about Bisphenol-A?

71 Executive retreat

Transport: BMW 3 Series goes eco-conscious

72 Get another year from your PC

Technology: Need a new computer? Delay the expense, and the cost to the planet, by following these five tips to pep up your current PC

74 In the winter kitchen

Grow + eat: Leek and potato soup is a great winter warmer, but there’s much more you can do with this easy-to-grow veggie

74 Bring home the bacon

Grow + eat: Five months pregnant and facing her 40th birthday, Francesca Price decides it’s time to go pig hunting

Good bits

97 Shhh, nobody say ‘sustainability’

Business: Eco-spite on the rise, says Rod Oram

98 The comparable rightness of being

Eco-worrier: Emily Perkins contemplates overpopulation

99 Crafty little sew-and-sew

Good housekeeping: Barbara Good on the menace of mending

100 The slow apocalypse

Gaia and brimstone: Dave Hansford’s off to the future

101 Is sustainability a moral issue?

The green room: We’re all trying to be ‘good’ consumers, but real sustainability is much more complex, says Joanna Lewin

103 Action

Action: Outsmart your supermarket

104 Genevieve + Kerrin Revell

The good life: Horseback riding for a cause

Plus

82 The Good Guide

Heating and insulation: Knowledge to help you make the right purchasing decisions to protect your family over the winter months