Our Vision
A world in which everyone lives well, in just and resilient communities, on a healthy and liveable planet.
Our Mission
We exist to help people and communities live well and build resilience, while protecting nature, as the cost of ecological breakdown reaches everyday life.
Our Structure
Two organisations, one shared purpose
GoZero and the GoZero Foundation are independent organisations that work together to deliver the shared vision and mission above. GoZero supports its business network with its Buy Local platform and business advisory services. The GoZero Foundation coordinates household and community sufficiency and resilience work.
Diagnosing Our Predicament
Understanding the cost-of-living crisis
Across New Zealand, more people are finding it harder to afford the essentials they need. We have analysed how our economic system is damaging our environment by consuming resources and polluting beyond safe limits, and how this is driving increased costs. Rising insurance premiums, higher food prices, and costlier infrastructure repairs are what ecological breakdown looks like when it reaches everyday life.
Our diagnosis shows that we are entering a phase when the cost of environmental damage is likely to overtake global growth, which will significantly increase hardship for Kiwi households, communities and businesses.
Our Response
Protecting communities, nature and the economy
To protect our communities from economic breakdown, we need to protect the life-support system upon which our economy and society depend. This means replacing overconsumption with mindful consumption that meets everyone's real needs. This is called sufficiency.
Sufficiency isn't about going without. It's about consuming with a purpose - enhancing genuine wellbeing. It's about reducing dependency on the complex, expensive, damaging systems that are becoming less reliable. The goal is to live better, by living lighter, while working to protect and regenerate nature, and therefore, the economy.
GoZero is launching initiatives to operate at the levels where sufficiency delivers: households, communities, local economies, and systems.
Start Here
See what your household could save
The Sufficiency Savings Tool is free and takes about five minutes. It shows where your household's biggest opportunities are — from insurance to food to transport — and what financial resilience built from those savings could look like.
Join A Team
Build a shared response, together
Want to build a shared response to the cost-of-living crisis and ecological breakdown with people in your own community? GoZero Teams bring neighbours, colleagues and friends together to practise sufficiency and build local resilience.