Our Vision
A world in which everyone lives well, in just and resilient communities, on a healthy and liveable planet.
Our Mission
To help Kiwi households and communities with the tools, knowledge and strategies they need to live well, build resilience and protect nature together.
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 is a social enterprise. The GoZero Foundation is a registered charitable trust.
Economic transition
GoZero
GoZero supports its business network with its Buy Local platform and business advisory services.
Social transition
GoZero Foundation
The GoZero Foundation coordinates household and community sufficiency and resilience work.
Diagnosing Our Predicament
Understanding cost-of-living pressures
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.
Systems Change
Towards decent lives for all
We work to make it easier for Kiwis to live well, while protecting and regenerating nature. Our current systems push us to compete over resources and consume more than we actually need. This drives the ecological overshoot and damage that threatens us all, and pushes up costs. Many Kiwis are struggling to afford the essentials for a decent life. Changing that means rebuilding systems so that they provide access to essentials for all, within the planet’s limits. We help people build financial resilience, and come together to identify and act on local and systemic risks.
Households
Free up money for what matters with the Sufficiency Savings Tool.
Communities
Coordinate with neighbours, colleagues and friends to make a difference.
Local economies
Keep spending in your community to build resilience.
Systems
Join collective efforts to build decent lives for all while protecting nature.