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Editorial

Time and money

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Drowning Graham's sorrows

Meet Graham, a digital cube-dweller just ready to snap

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Our dream Cabinet

Fifteen New Zealanders to entrust with your tax dollars

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Sent shopping

Here’s a new feature for your phone: free beer

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Gatekeeper

A new invention saves farmers sleepless nights

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Going native

Endemicworld.com aims to turn designs into sales

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Darling, I saw you on my phone

Fashion shots from the street, on the web and on your phone

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Fashion boot camp

Two Kiwi designers are showing our up-and-comers the ropes

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Laser class

A new edge just may help win the America’s Cup

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The end is nigh

Each year 70,000 New Zealanders leave our shores, says David Skilling—and in December he’ll join the exodus

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Agenda for change

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Eco-news

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Better buildings, please

Understanding the environmental performance of a building should be as easy as understanding the performance of your vehicle via its Warrant of Fitness

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When carbon went to market

As more and more companies recognise the necessity of implementing an environmental strategy that suits their business, they quickly grasp there are two opportunities

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Making skinny consumption sexy

People need to be sold a new future that doesn’t repeat the follies of the present

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Better to rethink than to recede

In 18 short months, green consumption has gone from being a fringe activity to a mainstream philosophy

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Re:design

The next industrial revolution: the shift from the usual process of 'takes, makes and wastes' to one that restores ecological, social and cultural systems

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Schools: a sustainable asset

Schools aren’t just places where we learn and make friends

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Life after the ETS

New Zealand will have an emissions trading scheme. That much, at least, is supported by the major parties

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Big Jim

He’s done with humans. He’s done with pine trees. Now Jim Watson, one of New Zealand’s leading biotech entrepreneurs, is trying to hook the big kahuna: an alternative to fossil fuels

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Delicious design

Giles Baker and Vanessa Kettelwell never planned a sustainable makeover, but when a U.S. customer demanded eco-friendlier chocolate they found a whole new market

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Carbon farming

Air miles? Bah. Branka Simunovich’s olives are carbon-positive, thank you, and she has the papers to prove it. Andy Kenworthy visits a very ambitious eco-venture

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Clean billions

The shift to a low-emission, low-carbon world is introducing high-value business opportunities

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Dig the new breed

It’s the traditional path to rock stardom: land a contract, make a top ten hit, get an intro to your label’s HQ in London or LA. Pity that’s often the end of the road for Kiwi musicians. But a new group of Kiwi musos is blazing its own trail, and they don’t need a major label to get there. Stephen Jewell follows the indie OE. Plus play, Lady, play

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My imaginary friends

Four Canterbury University students take their masterplan to solve our traffic woes to Paris, competing against 60 other countries for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup—and cure a writer’s cynicism along the way. By Gena Tuffery

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Big in Japan

Terrie Lloyd couldn’t speak a word of Japanese when he arrived in Tokyo, so he started a translation company. Now he’s at the head of a multimillion-dollar publishing and technology empire. Karryn Cartelle meets the Kiwis running Japan Inc

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It's all about Seoul

South Koreans are reinventing Seoul, inspired by the world’s most liveable cities, and even the US Army is getting out of their way. Graham Reid asks why Koreans can unite to build the ‘lifestyle capital of the East’ when New Zealanders struggle to build a football stadium

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The first 3,000 days

Labour swept to power in 1999 promising to transform New Zealand into a world-class, knowledge-led economy. Instead, they reverted to ‘Old Labour’ habits of taxing, regulating and centralising. Vincent Heeringa weighs up Labour’s promises against its achievements and wonders what’s next

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Books in brief

Design bias and anecdotal heroes

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Speed demon

Quick thoughts on a quick read

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Our Garbo

There was no recession in New Zealand. Rita Angus is proof

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No place like home

Our cities compete for visitors’ attention. How about giving the locals some love?

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Real leaders

Want to be a good boss? Consider stroppy chef Gordon Ramsay your role model

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The horror of it all

Looking back at a horrible run

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Easy on, Dave

A good song can reach a great pitch

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They would say that

The data tell the story, reckons Google. We’re not persuaded

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Become design-led

Apple, Icebreaker, Fisher & Paykel, Dyson, Formway … it’s design that lifts these companies above the ordinary. But how do you encourage your company to become design-led?

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The same old us

Local content on the box is up—and that’s worth repeating

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That was then

Twenty-five years ago, royal glamour arrived in Godzone and Rob Muldoon strapped on his war medals

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Idealgear

Idealog’s pick of design-led delights