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First Things

Good Selection

4 Still waters run deep

14 Good Times

18 Five minutes with

Good Selection: Alice Baird

22 Good guide: Pork

Buying pork raises lots of eco and ethical questions – which is not something you want to grapple
with when you’re just after a ham sandwich.
surveys the options

25 Green screens

Three movies; three nationalities; one common humanity

26 Sea Monsters

in the Caribbean

28 Food Bill: what’s the fuss?

Trend Tracker: There’s grumbling over garden fences
about a new bill before Parliament.
takes a closer look

30 Ex-libris

Bookend: 

Features

32 Handmade Christmas

Create a celebration to remember

40 Beginner’s guide to foraging

Food's all around us – we just need to learn how to see it, explains the UK foraging queen . Read on to learn more about finding food in unusual places

50 Rivers of shame

What’s happening to our waterways?

58 To dye for

Fabric dyeing can be hugely polluting – but here's one Kiwi brand finding a better way

60 Know one, teach one

When Australian expat Jimmy Pham asked a
bunch of Vietnamese street kids what they wanted
in life, their response was ‘skills and a stable job’.
So he started a restaurant and hired them all

66 Tears in the rainforest

The Penan tribes live in seemingly idyllic settlements in the Borneo jungle – less than ten hours’ drive from Brunei, but light years from the modern world

70 Cut from the same cloth

Meet the maker: Good meets Kiwi fashion designer Deryn Schmidt and discovers a fresh new talent following in her granny’s footsteps

72 The natural nursery

A natural nursery for baby

Your Good Life

80 Gold, frankincense … and biscuits

Food: Festive gifts you can eat

88 Sweet sixteen

Slow Drinks: A summer of Kiwi artisan ciders to enjoy

92 Gardening

Your edible garden

96 Alcohol nation

Family: Simple Parenting: protecting our teens

100 Putting on your party face

Health & Beauty: With the long balmy nights comes the summer party
season.

104 Take 5: Sunscreens

Health & Beauty: It pays to do your homework when it comes to choosing sunscreen

106 Healthy smiles

Health & Beauty: When it comes to our appearance, nothing says health
more than a bright sparkly smile.

108 Good housekeeping

The best advice from our readers

110 Christmas gifts

Your guide to eco Christmas shopping

112 A Good thought

to leave you with

More Goodness

The Good blog
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    As gloomy weather sets in, it's the little things that lift your mood. Like these candy-coloured retro leather purses from Green With Envy – a splash of gorgeousness on the daily shop. And we've got two to give away!

  • How to get rid of oxalis?
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    Good's new gardening expert Zoe Carafice is ready and waiting to solve your dilemmas! Each question published on Zoe's blog or in Good receives a fab prize from Tui Garden. This week: how to eradicate oxalis bulbs.

  • One good reason to skip lunch
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    Plenty of food that’s good enough to eat (but not good enough to sell) is disposed of every day. Kaibosh Food Rescue is aiming to change all that by collecting extra food and distributing it to charities. Now they're calling on Kiwis to donate the cost of a meal on Miss a Meal in May Day – so they can expand their mission to help out the hungry.

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  • Urban harvest
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    Could you live off the land? Nancy Howie travels to Canada to discover how one grassroots movement is redefining the suburban dream.

  • Where has fracking been allowed on the East Coast?
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    Armed with exploration licenses issued by the New Zealand government, Tag Oil and its partner Apache intend to extract oil and gas from the East Coast. See the map here >

  • Man-made earthquakes
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    Is it possible for human activity to cause quakes? One investigation in Blackpool, England discovered that more than fifty tremors in the region were caused by fracking operations. Read the article >

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  • B on Winter pick-me-ups:
    I often despise coming home after work to have to stand in the kitchen for ages cooking.  So I try to make huge pots or add extra vege'  
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    winterproof your home by reducing humidity inside (when it's damp it feels colder). It is amazing what a difference it makes to slick/squeeg  
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    I make sure I have a bottle of one of the blackcurrant type syrups, I find it hard to keep up the water intake when the temps drop, so add h  
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    Although I love the idea of the glass jars for baking ingredients etc. would Tupperware be alright as it lasts a lifetime?
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    I've just finished knitting a sweater for a hot water bottle cover, so it stays hot longer and also doesn't get to hot when hugging it. Trou  
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