Sustainable Toolkit
Energy
Emprove
Emprove is an Energy Management Programme brought to you by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and capable of delivering energy cost savings of up to 30%. The program includes grants to cover energy audits.
Energywise
In small buinesses the key effective energy cost management is knowing where you energy is going - the energywise website will help you with this - also bought to you by the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authrority (EECA).
Managing your office equipment
Managing you office equipment is another area where gains are extremely easy to achieve and simply require changing a software setting or habit. Other benefits can be achieved when purchasing equipment. In most cases, improving the office energy efficiency will also decrease excess heat, noise and make the equipment last longer.
Energy Efficient Buildings
Whether you are seeking Energy Savings, Home Energy Efficiency or improved year round Comfort in your home - Right House provides an integrated approach including all energy and comfort aspects of your home.
Smarter Homes
The Smarter Homes website contains information on sustainable design, water use, landscaping, energy use, building materials and construction.
Solar Hot Water
Most parts of New Zealand have enough sunlight to make solar water heating worthwhile. Solar systems store hot water for later use and are boosted by electricity, gas, or wood-fired stoves to ensure continuous supply.
Fuels
Biofuels
Biodiesel is fuel manufactured from a base of vegetable oils or animal fats, which is commonly sold blended with ordinary mineral diesel. Biodiesel is most likely to be sold in New Zealand as a B5 blend where 5% is biodiesel and 95% ordinary mineral diesel.
Hybrid Vehicles
Hybrid electric vehicles use a combination of gasoline powered engines and electric motors, achieving doubled or tripled fuel efficiency, better performance and ultra low emissions, while still using ordinary petrol.
Carbon Offsetting
Mitigation is the process of neutralising an individual’s, organisation’s or event’s remaining unavoidable emissions by purchasing high quality offsets or carbon credits. Carbon credits may be created by projects that:
Sink carbon dioxide, e.g. through regeneration of native forest
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency projects
Avoid greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy generation projects
Landcare Research owns and operates the CarboNZero programme.
Greenfleet
GreenFleet is a practical program developed by the Sustainable Business Network which enables New Zealand businesses to do something towards reducing the impacts of their vehicle fleet on our environment and people.
Waste
Shop Environmentally
Twelve percent of the weight of the average rubbish bag is packaging. Because packaging rubbish is mostly very light plastic, it takes up a lot of space - sometimes up to half of the rubbish bag. The reduce rubbish website is one step in the right direction to reducing the amount of waste you send to landfill.
Recycling
Here you will learn about the challenges and opportunities for you in your quest to contribute to a better New Zealand by recycling instead of wasting.
RONZ is the industry organisation that represents, advocates for, and advances, the diverse interests of its business members, the recyclers of NZ.
Building Material Wastes
REBRI's goal is to improve resource efficiency in the building industry by providing the resources to:
reduce waste disposal costs
save money on raw materials
use materials more effectively
reduce the environmental impact from landfill disposal
assist industry, councils and the community to meet the New Zealand Waste Strategy target
Wastenet
The purpose of the Joint Waste Agreement is to clarify the respective roles and obligations amongst the parties and to provide an opportunity for collaboration on waste management and minimisation initiatives.
General Environmental
Green Office Guide
Everything you need to know about greening your office in a step by step user friendly format.
Enviromark NZ Buyers Guide
Enviro-Mark NZ is an environmental management system marketed and supported throughout New Zealand by Landcare Research.
Procurement
Environmental Choice
The New Zealand Ecolabelling Trust is a voluntary, multiple specifications based environmental labelling programme, which operates to international standards and principles.
Supply Chain Management
How to integrate sustainability into your supply chain.
Sustainable Publishing
A practical ‘how to’ guide for people who make decisions about publishing.
Funding
Sustainable Management Fund
The purpose of the SMF is to support community groups, iwi, businesses and local government in taking practical actions that produce long-term environmental benefits.
Social/Cultural
Work-life Balance Project
Work-life balance is about effectively managing the juggling act between paid work and other activities that are important to us - including spending time with family, taking part in sport and recreation, volunteering or undertaking further study.
Working with schools
A business and school partnership is a strategic commitment by a business to a school for mutual benefit. Partnerships are about empowering our young people to contribute to a Sustainable New Zealand. Also visit the Enviroschools website to see how you can get involved.
Employee Practices
Health and Safety
Improving employee health and safety for small business.
The Shell Sustainability Fund is focused on enabling the small/medium enterprise sector to overcome the barriers to their participation in sustainable development.
EECA has some funding available for Energy Intensive Businesses to install and monitor energy efficient technologies.