Welcome to the resources site for
Sustainable Living. Kia Ora

Here at home in Aotearoa New Zealand, you could be reducing your impact
on the planet, getting a healthier lifestyle and saving some money...
on energy bills, shopping, gardening, metered water and motoring.

Either click on a text link below or button at the left, to start making a difference now, where you live!

What are the issues?

Where to start - some practical actions

Contact Sustainable Living Programme, request occasional email news and register interest in courses

Sustainability Links in New Zealand, also
similar information from sources around the world

Course listing and local contacts in 25 regions, districts and cities of NZ

The Sustainable Living Programme's Latest News and more information about us

Save on costly petrol, reduce power bills at home, see less plastics and water being wasted, grow healthy organic food and also help wildlife at your garden, and maybe change some shopping 'consumer' habits - while still enjoying a great Kiwi lifestyle! Join a course, and-or get information direct from here.

For a quiz on sustainability issues, see our sister website 'Sustainable Living' - click on the headlines or parts of the house and garden picture! (PDF downloads from that site are shared with this one).

For The Sustainability Challenge where you can make pledges to take action and get additional useful info from Government and official agencies, visit www.sustainability.govt.nz

Firms looking to undertake sustainability initiatives in the workplace, (initially in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty regions), are invited to contact the Sustainable Business Company which has recently arranged a licence with Sustainable Living Programme. They specialise in the delivery of sustainable solutions for business and through their workshops can deliver some of the Sustainable Living material in a business context, providing your business with simple information and tools with which to begin both the company and the staff's sustainability journeys.

Sustainable Living Programme (formerly titled 'Sustainable Households') has been developed by a growing partnership of local councils across New Zealand, with helpful funding assistance in 2001-2004 (SMF) and in 2007-8 (contract) from the NZ Ministry for the Environment..

The Ministry encourage use but are not responsible for this site's content, which has continued to develop since 2005. Errors, omissions or suggestions for improvement should be notified to Annie McDonald, SLP Project Manager, Marlborough District Council, PO Box 443, Blenheim. Or email the Nnational Coordinator & webmaster, via the Contact page at www.sustainableliving.org.nz .