Sustainability Options

25/02/2026

Yesterday, Jo facilitated the 'Leading within Complex Systems for Powerful Change' workshop at the DayBreak Festival of Innovation. 🧠 It was a unique event bringing curious people together, to connect and learn.

While soaking up the rest of the festival, Jo’s personal highlight was hearing from keynote speaker Melissa Clark-Reynolds, who spoke about turning signals into strategy. As Jo put it, “She’s great. She’s always on point.”

Jo left the event feeling grateful to Priority One for responding to her expression of interest to speak about how a purposeful economy can serve people and the planet, and how economies are shaped by us. 💡

And sometimes when you put ideas out into the world, interesting things happen. Since yesterday, new opportunities have already popped up for Jo to run sessions with other organisations. Watch this space! 🌱 ✨

25/02/2026

The Inner Development Goals intention is to provide a common, accessible language to address the gap between knowledge and action, for some of the major challenges we're facing. 🌏

🔗 Here's a great article by co-founder Erik Fernholm about the Inner Development Goals. If you'd like to know more, get in touch with Jo, an IDG ambassador, by emailing her at jo.wills@so.org.nz

Erik Fernholm: Addressing the Root Cause, Not the Symptoms – Why We Started the Inner Development Goals 2025-02-08 Erik Fernholm, Co-founder of the Inner Development Goals (IDG). Photo: Press Image. We already have all the knowledge we need to tackle the climate crisis and the challenges fa...

22/02/2026

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 😊

We received a lovely donation of 30 new pillows from the Catholic Women’s League (courtesy of the generous Margaret), in Rotorua.

These pillows will be super handy to provide to whānau in need, as we come across a lot of families without access to clean bedding. 🛏️

We’re keen to go the extra mile to help keep tamariki healthy and safe in their whare, especially with winter coming! 🏠 ❄️

20/02/2026

Make Shift Happen, next Wednesday!

This is a final reminder that Jo is hosting the 'Leading within Complex Systems for Powerful Change' workshop next week.

Jo will be exploring how a purposeful economy can serve people and the planet, and how economies are shaped by us. It focuses on the human, rather than technical, challenges behind climate change and inequity, and the role of courageous leadership in driving change through business.

Through the Inner Development Goals, a framework introduced in 2021 and adopted by academic institutions such as Harvard and organisations like IKEA, attendees will gain transformational skills for sustainable development and support to shift thinking towards more sustainable futures.

How can this session ?
• Be challenged to see economies and business through a different lens.
• Learn about the IDG framework and take away resources to start working with straight away.
• Be connected to a local network of others in the IDG space.

🚀 Lock in your place at the launchpad for your best year.
🎫 Get in quick! Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/daybreak-festival-of...
✨ Full programme is out, see what’s in store: https://www.priorityone.co.nz/daybreak-2026-full-programme/

DayBreak | 25 February 2026

18/02/2026

With winter coming up, we need your help.

Our team of home assessors are out and about in different Bay of Plenty communities every week. They come across a lot of families that don’t have access to the basics - including heaters, blankets, or carpeted floors. So that we can help more families in need, to stay warm and healthy next winter, we’re asking for your support with donations.

Please click through the below images for more information on the kind of donations that can help whānau.

Our drop-off location:
📍 Sustainability Options Tauranga Office: 59 Seventh Avenue

If you have any questions, please get in touch:
📞 021 086 01777

Thank you for your support 🧡

15/02/2026

When anyone donates to the 20 Degrees vision, 100% of the koha goes towards helping Bay of Plenty whānau have warmer, drier, and healthier homes. 🏠

If you want to contribute to our mahi… thank you so much! We have a Givealittle page where you can make a financial contribution.

Koha/donations help fund minor repairs and maintenance like draught proofing, installing window latches, glazing repairs, minor roof repairs, and much more. 🛠️

To support our 20 Degrees kaupapa, you can donate here:
👉https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/20-degrees-1

Ngā mihi nui 🧡

20 Degrees is a vision to ensure Bay of Plenty homes can achieve and sustain a healthy temperature of 20°C on a cold winter's night.

11/02/2026

We have agency to redefine our economy, and to chart out a future that is more sustainable and just. 💵🌏

How…? You might be wondering.

We’ve been reading the recently released report from the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand titled ‘Redesigning Aotearoa’s Economics Curriculum: Five transformative shifts’. 📰

In this report, they propose five actionable changes to high school Economics curriculum:
- Widen the system boundary of the course
- Clarify the purpose of the economy
- Embrace the complexity of human nature and behaviour
- Replace linear and binary models with more complex systems thinking
- Deepen economic understanding through experiential learning.

Through a change in education for young people, we can shift generational mindsets and ultimately societies. We encourage you to be curious in having a read of their report, and to share this with teachers, students, and academics!

🔗Link below:

Rethinking how we teach economics could equip students for the 21st century and position NZ as a global leader Our new report, Redesigning Aotearoa’s Economics Curriculum: Five transformative shifts , outlines the bold reforms needed to equip students for modern economic challenges and bring Ne

11/02/2026

Leading within Complex Systems for Powerful Change

Hosted by Jo, this workshop explores how a purposeful economy can serve people and the planet, and how economies are shaped by us. It focuses on the human, rather than technical, challenges behind climate change and inequity, and the role of courageous leadership in driving change through business.

Through the Inner Development Goals, a framework introduced in 2021 and adopted by academic institutions such as Harvard and organisations like IKEA, attendees will gain transformational skills for sustainable development and support to shift thinking towards more sustainable futures.

How can this session ?
• Be challenged to see economies and business through a different lens.
• Learn about the IDG framework and take away resources to start working with straight away.
• Be connected to a local network of others in the IDG space.

🚀 Lock in your place at the launchpad for your best year.
🎫 Get in quick! Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/daybreak-festival-of-innovation-2026

✨ Full programme is out, see what’s in store: https://www.priorityone.co.nz/daybreak-2026-full-programme/
DayBreak | 25 February 2026

09/02/2026

When a home assessment turns into a baking appreciation post… 🍪

One of our home assessors, Angela (on the left), recently visited the whare of a māmā in Ōpōtiki, who’s working hard to get her whare healthier for her two kids.

Her son is saving up to go to Japan for a school trip. He has been very creative and working hard to fundraise for his trip.

He has set up the wonderful “Taki’s Kitchen Magic Menu”. He’s baking and selling delicious carrot cake 🍰, steamed pudding 🍮, homemade cookies 🍪, and Russian fudge.

It’s safe to say our kaimahi have been very supportive taste testers.

Cookies were sampled. Steamed puddings were purchased in bulk. Zero regrets were reported.

If you’d like to support a young local entrepreneur (and treat yourself at the same time), you can get amongst Taki’s baking by ordering through mazshaw6@gmail.com and paying (or just donating) to T Bryan 03-1904-0107200-00.

Sometimes community support looks like advocacy. Sometimes it looks like dessert. 🍰

04/02/2026

Between Goofy Goosey 🐶, some team banter, and the regional heavy rain warnings going off on our phones 📱… our staff recently had a valuable refresher from one of our lead team members Jo, on the key principles of home performance.

For some context, Jo is a co-manager of the Home Performance Advisor (HPA) training programme. This is an independent, national education organisation. Every one of our home assessors completes this training, because good advice starts with strong, independent knowledge. 🏠

That learning shows up where it matters most: helping homes become warmer, drier, healthier and more energy-efficient for whānau, especially heading into winter.

If you’re curious to see this knowledge put into action in your own home, we’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch for a free home assessment via our website.
👉 https://www.sustainabilityoptions.org.nz/our-contact/

You can also learn more about HPA here:
🔗 https://hpa.arlo.co/w/

01/02/2026

Kia ora koutou.

Just a reminder that we’re kicking off our first Green Drinks of the year soon, and you’re warmly invited to join us.

This month we’re gathering for a free screening of ‘Eating for Tomorrow’, a powerful 1.5 hour documentary from the Food Revolution Network. The film takes an unflinching look at the global animal agriculture system - its social and environmental impacts, the pressures of endless economic growth, and the ripple effects those pressures create in communities and ecosystems.

It’s thought provoking, and a timely reminder that while we’re all part of complex systems, we also have real agency to influence change.

Event details:
📅 Thursday 12 February
⏰ 5:30pm – 7:30pm
📍 Basestation, Tauranga (downstairs in the Babbage space)

Grab your free ticket and learn more here:
https://events.humanitix.com/green-drinks-vscu6b59

A huge mihi to our generous sponsors Vitality Kitchen - Tauranga, Basestation, and Zeden Cider Co. for helping make this possible.

Keen to come along? We’d love to see you there.

01/02/2026

Cold. Mouldy. Unsafe.

This Tauranga whānau were living without insulation, heating or hot water until they asked for help.

Cherry and Norman's story is honest, confronting and hopeful.

👉 Check out their full journey with 20 Degrees here: https://www.20degrees.org.nz/blog/post/159422/a-tauranga-whanaus-journey-from-a-cold-and-mouldy-home-to-warmth-dignity-and-hope/