Good, issue 7
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Good start
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Editorial
Tell us what you think
6 The Goodies
Derek Henderson, Lauren Bartlett, Alessandra Zecchini, Jessica Lax
8 Letters
Write and win
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. speaks to Good
25 Filmmakers
Power of two: Dean Easterbrook and Qiujing Wong
Features
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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 . 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. talks with the penny-pinching genius whose time has come
The goods
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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, decides it’s time to go pig hunting
Good bits
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Shhh, nobody say ‘sustainability’
Business: Eco-spite on the rise, says
98 The comparable rightness of being
Eco-worrier: contemplates overpopulation
99 Crafty little sew-and-sew
Good housekeeping: on the menace of mending
100 The slow apocalypse
Gaia and brimstone: ’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
103 Action
Action: Outsmart your supermarket
104 Genevieve + Kerrin Revell
The good life: Horseback riding for a cause
Plus
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The Good Guide
Heating and insulation: Knowledge to help you make the right purchasing decisions to protect your family over the winter months
