Our Vision
A world in which everyone lives well, in just and resilient communities, on a healthy and liveable planet.
Our Mission
To build community wellbeing and resilience through sufficiency
We work to address the root cause of ecological collapse and the cost-of-living crisis: extractivism and overconsumption. We do this by promoting the adoption of sufficiency-first approaches at the household, community, business and systems levels.
What Is Extractivism?
Our Structure
Two organisations, one shared mission
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
Addressing the cause of the cost-of-living crisis
Across New Zealand, more people are finding it harder to afford the essentials. The systems that supply essential goods and services are under increasing strain from ecological breakdown. Rising insurance premiums, higher food prices, and costlier infrastructure repairs are what ecological breakdown looks like when it reaches everyday life. The economic assumptions underlying long-term planning were built for a stable climate and stable resource costs. Both are now in question.
GoZero has analysed how extractivism and overconsumption are contributing to increasing costs. The evidence shows that we are entering a phase when the cost of environmental damage will overtake global growth, which will significantly increase hardship for Kiwi households, communities and businesses.
Our Response
Building resilience and wellbeing with sufficiency
The protection of households' and communities' wellbeing requires the protection of the life-support system upon which our economy and society depend. Current responses address symptoms rather than the root causes of the crises.
Sufficiency isn't about going without. It's about securing the essentials that provide genuine wellbeing, while reducing dependency on the complex, expensive, ecologically-costly systems that are becoming less reliable. The goal is to live better, by living lighter: substituting local capacity and community resilience for fragile supply chains, volatile resource costs and ecological damage.
GoZero is launching initiatives to operate at four levels where this matters: 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.