Going paperless: magazines

As you know, I’m trying to go paperless in my life. I’m tired of forests getting chopped down for pulp mills, and I’ve signed as many petitions as I can, and contributed money to the anti-deforestation campaigns. And now I’m trying to get my use of paper down to a bare minimum.

One of my most un-green habits is my magazine addiction. I used to spend over $40 a month on the glossy, short-lived things.

I’m a compulsive reader, and magazines fill that need perfectly: shiny and full of new things to read every month. I find it hard to resist them! Yeah, I always recycle them, but it’s too late for the trees by that stage, isn’t it?

Nowadays I’m much better about this habit, although I could still improve. I managed to cut back to about a quarter of my old levels of consumption by getting a lot more reading done online. Most magazines have an online version with fresh content everyday. There are so many good websites now that I don’t have to wait for the dead-tree editions to come out. Here’s the ones I like best:
Food
Taste.com.au (magazine based)
Vegan Yum Yum
The Kitchn

Movies/DVDs/Games
Empire (magazine based)
Metacritic

Crafts
Craft (used to be magazine based, now online only)
Ravelry, for my dormant knitting habit

Politics and current affairs
Crikey
Inside Story for longer essays

Miscellaneous
Choice for product ratings and consumer advocacy (magazine based)
Cosmos for science and technology (magazine based)

I’d be happy to pay for online subscriptions to these, or pay to access them on a Kindle or e-Reader. But so far, no-one in Australia is offering that. For me, it’s about the fresh content, and if I can get that without causing deforestation, that’s fine with me.

I do of course subscribe to G Magazine, and will probably never be entirely free of my magazine habit. As a treat, they’re cheap, and healthier for me than chocolates. But there’s no reason to go overboard with a dozen subscriptions the way I used to, and I want to stick to my reduced consumption plan. If you’ve got any more sources for good fashion or house/garden websites, with an eco-friendly angle to them, I’d love to know about them - it could help me reduce my magazine stack even more.