Our Structure
Two organisations, one shared purpose
GoZero and the GoZero Foundation are independent organisations that work together for a joint purpose: to help Kiwis live well and have sustainable access to the essentials they need, while protecting nature for future generations.
Social enterprise
GoZero
GoZero runs our business network and Buy Local campaign, and offers advisory services to businesses.
Registered charity
GoZero Foundation
The GoZero Foundation leads our work with households and communities, including GoZero Teams.
What We’re Up Against
Understanding cost-of-living pressures
We looked at how our economy pushes us to consume and pollute beyond safe limits, and how this is driving up costs. Rising insurance premiums, higher food prices and costlier repairs to roads and pipes are what damage to nature and a changing climate look like in everyday life.
We found that the cost of environmental damage is likely to start outweighing the gains from economic growth within the next few years. That would mean much more hardship for Kiwi households, communities and businesses, and put homes, savings and investments at risk.
Our Response
Protecting communities, nature and the economy
To protect our communities from economic hardship, we need to protect nature, which our economy and society depend on. That means replacing overconsumption with consumption that meets everyone's real needs. This is called sufficiency.
Sufficiency isn't about going without. It means choosing what we consume to improve our wellbeing. It also means depending less on costly, damaging systems that are becoming less reliable, such as long supply chains and imported essentials. The aim is to live better by living lighter, while protecting and restoring nature, and with it the economy.
Systems Change
Towards decent lives for all
Our current systems push us to compete over resources and consume more than we need. This overshoots nature’s safe limits, damaging the natural world, driving up costs and leaving many Kiwis struggling to afford the essentials for a decent life.
Changing that means cooperating to rebuild systems so that everyone has access to essentials within those limits. We start with households, communities and local businesses, and build up from there.
Households
Build up savings and spend on what matters, with the Sufficiency Savings Tool.
Communities
Team up with neighbours, colleagues and friends to make a difference.
Local businesses
Buy essentials from local businesses and keep money in your community.
Systems
Act together on what none of us can change alone.