Healthy efficient homes
The delivery of 422 home energy advice plans has resulted in 1,059 actions to reduce energy saving homes an average of $330 per year
Transport and access
1,359 personalised journey plans have lead to 1,034 less car trips a day and a total reduction of 51,200km travelled on the roads each year
Carbon in-set
Our combined programmes have helped reduce CO2 by 469 tonnes per year equivalent to 72 hectares (or rugby fields) of native forest
Resilient communities
Our programmes are increasing household, business and the community resilience to environmental, economic and catastrophic change
Neighbourhood design
Evaluations and audits provide developers with recommendations for integrated urban design to meet social and environmental expectations
Behaviour change tools
Specialised online and offline tools increase programme efficiencies and also deliver real-time information to engage audiences and encourage behaviour change
Training
Training workshops deliver tailored advice in behaviour change and project management
Research and evaluation
Independent programme reviews and project evaluations lead to strategic recommendations for local, regional and national governments
Our work
Some of our most recent projects and developments that encourage new ideas and approaches.
Personalised Journey Planning
So far in 2019, our fantastic engagement team has contacted over 1,100 households – delivering personalised journey plans from Glen Innes to Howick. on trip options in Royal Oak – our seventh Personalised Journey Planning project.
Home Energy Efficiency
Regular programmes funded by the Whau, Waitemat?, Puket?papa and Maugakiekie-Tam?ki Local Boards. These provide tailored advice to residents increasing efficiency and reducing CO2 – resulting in annual savings of around $300-400 per household per year.
Sustainable neighbourhood design
Working with Beacon Pathway in Auckland and Christchurch delivering guidance for developers of Medium Density housing to encourage integrated developments that maximise environmental and community benefits.
Sustainability, resilience and CO2
A presentation at the Future of Emergency Management Conference 2017
See it hereAdaptify
We are continually integrating new topics into our Adaptify framework to encourage behaviour change and carbon reduction in the areas of energy, transport, health, food, waste and resilience.
See our summary infographicEnergy and CO2 assessments of apartments
Our assessments are funded by the Waitemat?. These measure energy and CO2 in apartments and provide recommendations for reduction.
Evaluating the Healthy Rentals Programme
Our evaluation of Auckland Council’s Healthy Rentals programme has lead to recommendations to encourage landlords to provide insulation and improve housing quality for their tenants. We have also developed personalised advice for residents that has been used in wider regional programmes.
Landlord or tenant – find out if the programme can help youOff the grid
A whole-island survey helped determine the extent of off-grid technologies on Waiheke and develop initiatives to support increased independence and community resilience.
Low Carbon Auckland
We calculated an ‘average’ Aucklanders CO2 emissions for the City’s Low Carbon Action Plan, and added a section on ‘bright sparks’, which showed how and why people become motivated to reduce their footprint.
Read the executive summaryAdaptify
Why should we? – How could we?
Our team
We are always working to better understand the factors that influence our behaviour to encourage more efficient and resilient businesses, communities and households.
Bill Smith
Director
Bill has worked in sustainable development since 1997 in the UK, Southern Africa, Australia and NZ. He has designed and delivered a wide range of innovative programmes to encourage behaviour change, increase resilience and reduce CO2.
Verney Ryan
Senior associate
Verney specialises in energy efficiency and renewables in
the built environment. He has experience with governments, industry
and NGOs including 10 years in the UK with the International Energy Agency & the Carbon Trust.
Karen Creagh
Senior associate
Karen has extensive experience in community interaction and evaluation and supports a number of our behaviour change programmes . She is also part of the team that developed and delivers the Sustainable Whau Challenge.
Stuart Sontier
Web development
Stuart specialises in complex data base systems, calculators, mapping and online administration. These drive our behaviour change tools providing efficient processes that deliver concise, relevant, personalised information.
Ben Mansfield
TEAM LEADER
Ben coordinates our engagement teams across a range of home energy and journey planning projects. When not on the doorstep, he provides research for on-going project development as well as administrative support to keeping our programmes running smoothly.
