http://good.net.nz/ 2010-03-11T09:05:17+13:00 -36.848968174.765154 http://good.net.nz/blog/holly-jean-brooker/holly-jean 2010-03-10T17:48:00+13:00 2010-03-11T09:05:17+13:00 <div style="float: right;"></div>Hey, I’m Holly Jean and am excited to blog my way through 2010. I am a typical 28-year-old urban girl trying to live a little bit greener for the sake of my health, the environment, and my pocket. One of my sisters is a true greenie who knows the ins and out of every chemical and toxin on earth, and thinks its a bit of a joke that I’m an eco-advocate. The joke part is that I’m a total urban girl who loves the hustle and bustle of city life.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/3MeGRgLmrGQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/holly-jean-brooker/holly-jean http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/good-bits/why-i-was-arrested-for-greenpeace 2010-03-09T15:37:15+13:00 2010-03-09T15:37:15+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/01/greenroom-small.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>A Northland builder gets arrested<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/25xlK5h8Zy4" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/good-bits/why-i-was-arrested-for-greenpeace http://good.net.nz/blog/hazel-murray/walk2workday 2010-03-08T08:41:47+13:00 2010-03-08T08:45:41+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/hazel/walkwork-sml.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Living Streets Aotearoa, New Zealand's largest advocacy group for pedestrians, is shouting about the benefits of walking to work from the streets this Wednesday 10th March. There'll be 20 events throughout the country&mdash;so get out there and beat the streets, joining the masses for breakfast between 7am and 9am.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/AQEfGwX6FXM" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/hazel-murray/walk2workday http://good.net.nz/blog/sarah-marquet/a-year-of-made-in-nz 2010-03-08T08:32:00+13:00 2010-03-08T09:36:52+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/nzmade/SarahMarquet-sml.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>New <em>Good</em> blogger Sarah Marquet has set herself a big challenge: buy New Zealand-made for a full year. Follow her updates every Monday as she battles to find New Zealand-made everything, within a small weekly budget.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/EBV3BN-TUvM" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/sarah-marquet/a-year-of-made-in-nz http://good.net.nz/blog/sarah-marquet/the-hunt-for-kiwi-made-nail-polish 2010-03-08T07:08:00+13:00 2010-03-10T13:10:50+13:00 <div style="float: right;"></div>Can anyone help Sarah keep to her made-in-New Zealand challenge by recommending a local or DIY nail hardener? How about an eczema remedy or headache cure? Plus: Croxley paper&mdash;a made-here success story.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/nrwfVHfC1rg" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/sarah-marquet/the-hunt-for-kiwi-made-nail-polish http://good.net.nz/blog/annabel-mcaleer/overfishing-documentary-the-end-of-the-line-premieres 2010-03-05T14:23:11+13:00 2010-03-08T08:30:42+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/Tunafreesushi.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Tuna-less sushi was served at the New Zealand premiere of <em>The End of the Line</em> last night in Wellington. Described as the <em>Inconvenient Truth</em> for oceans, the documentary reveals the global impacts of overfishing, and criticises New Zealand's commercial fisheries, among others. Scientists predict the global collapse of fish stocks by the middle of this century if nothing's done.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/wkt9KNFjb-0" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/annabel-mcaleer/overfishing-documentary-the-end-of-the-line-premieres http://good.net.nz/blog/6months/surviving-summer-without-the-supermarket 2010-03-05T09:25:47+13:00 2010-03-05T10:28:49+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/6months/supermarket2-biccies-sml.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Savenna catches up with Will Tong and Rachel de Lacey, who have now been living without the supermarket for twelve weeks. Find out how they survived the summer holidays, where they buy all their essentials&mdash;and a few favourite recipes.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/R73a86jOsuY" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/6months/surviving-summer-without-the-supermarket http://good.net.nz/blog/su-yin-khoo/wine-cheese-and-bicycles 2010-03-05T08:55:26+13:00 2010-03-05T09:27:28+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/try-my-bike-thumb.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>The lovely Frocks on Bikes will be hosting a Try My Bike evening in Auckland next week.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/eic9dPf0i2w" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/su-yin-khoo/wine-cheese-and-bicycles http://good.net.nz/magazine/5/the-goods/head-start 2010-03-04T10:30:30+13:00 2010-03-04T10:30:30+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/05/brochli-sm.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>As the summer harvest clears our garden beds, it's time to prepare the garden for winter&mdash;and grow some broccoli<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/8Vzy-nV_zLI" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/5/the-goods/head-start http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/good-start/power-to-the-people 2010-03-04T10:28:32+13:00 2010-03-04T10:28:32+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/10/batteries.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Batteries, washing soda and dental floss<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/6iPP3fLrZSI" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/good-start/power-to-the-people http://good.net.nz/blog/hazel-murray/cloth-nappy-supermarket 2010-03-01T08:44:10+13:00 2010-03-01T08:47:26+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/hazel/nappies-180.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Up until now cloth nappies have only been available from specialised stores or online, but from this week they will be stocked in supermarkets. Real Nappies, an Auckland company, will be stocked in Foodtown, Woolworths and Countdown supermarkets to make it even easier for Kiwi parents to choose an alternative to disposables.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/G-HVySfqt4g" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/hazel-murray/cloth-nappy-supermarket http://good.net.nz/blog/guests/can-you-help-this-reader 2010-02-25T12:47:25+13:00 2010-03-09T18:19:47+13:00 <div style="float: right;"></div>Try as we might, <em>Good</em> can't answer every question that comes our way. Can you lovely people help another reader choose fabric for homemade reusable sandwich wraps?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/H-Y-RwvC4qA" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/guests/can-you-help-this-reader http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/the-goods/sweat-on-the-safe-side 2010-02-25T12:11:49+13:00 2010-02-25T12:11:49+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/deo-sml.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Will antiperspirant give you breast cancer? Probably not, say scientists—but without a definite ‘no’, many women prefer to avoid underarm chemicals. <em>Good</em> puts aluminium-free and low-chem deodorants to the test<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/kpGObYuvDyA" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/the-goods/sweat-on-the-safe-side http://good.net.nz/magazine/8/good-start/peak-oil 2010-02-23T08:25:17+13:00 2010-02-23T08:25:17+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/08/oil-sm.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Peak oil does not mean the world is running out of oil: it refers to the point of maximum production, after which the availability of oil will steadily decline.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/J2kMysd1l00" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/8/good-start/peak-oil http://good.net.nz/blog/hazel-murray/fairtrade-bananas 2010-02-18T10:01:12+13:00 2010-02-18T10:49:54+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/hazel/nana-xsmall.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Fairtrade bananas have just gone on sale in New Zealand. Although we import more of the yellow fruit per capita than any other nation, we have never had the option to choose Fairtrade&mdash;until now!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/-CXo-QkGFP4" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/hazel-murray/fairtrade-bananas http://good.net.nz/magazine/9/the-goods/bringin-in-the-rain 2010-02-18T09:00:00+13:00 2010-02-18T09:00:00+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/09/water-sm.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Fresh water is a precious resource, so it's handy that so much of it falls out of the sky in New Zealand. All we need to do is collect it<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/be0baJS5ar4" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/9/the-goods/bringin-in-the-rain http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/features/for-the-love-of-bees 2010-02-18T08:42:36+13:00 2010-02-18T09:25:33+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/10/love-bees-small.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>The world’s honeybees are vanishing and New Zealand teeters on the brink of a catastrophic collapse in our bee population. <strong>Sarah Heeringa</strong> investigates the strange phenomenon of colony collapse disorder<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/QEs00hqlDPY" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/features/for-the-love-of-bees http://good.net.nz/magazine/9/the-goods/love-shack 2010-02-16T08:58:00+13:00 2010-02-16T08:58:00+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/09/love-shack-sm.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Between shifts as an Auckland tattoo artist, Keiran Sipes built this Northland home for a woman he'd just met. Mayana and Keiran&mdash;who now have two daughters&mdash;tell Hana Miller why their labour of love is also their perfect abode<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/7EDf5Klwkuk" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/9/the-goods/love-shack http://good.net.nz/blog/annabel-mcaleer/splore-this-friday 2010-02-15T18:44:12+13:00 2010-02-15T18:44:48+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/blogs/splore(1).png" alt="article illustration" /></div>We've been looking forward to this weekend for aaaages—and finally, it's nearly here! Splore starts this Friday at the Tapapakanga Regional Park, just 70km south east of Auckland. The <em>Good</em> team will be there, with a super-chilled out tent space for you to have a nice cup of tea and a sit down.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/XuFo5nATJUk" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/blog/annabel-mcaleer/splore-this-friday http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/good-start/claire-sawyers 2010-02-15T17:47:55+13:00 2010-02-15T17:47:55+13:00 <div style="float: right;"><img src="assets/images/spreads/10/claire-sawyers-small.jpg" alt="article illustration" /></div>Donate NZ founder Claire Sawyers<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/goodnz/~4/ZYJzpfn9K3Q" height="1" width="1"/> http://good.net.nz/magazine/ten/good-start/claire-sawyers