​​Sustainability Strategy
for Community Organisations​
and Small Business

A personal approach,
relevant for your situation,
to celebrate your achievements,
articulate your values
and inform your intentions.
A 'kiwi' process, connected with our context,
​to address our issues in constructive ways.

Contact Place Consultancy
Lead: Silvia Purdie
Phone: 027 242 1113
Email: silvia.purdie@gmail.com

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"Silvia provided professional support over 2021 to a staff working group tasked with developing recommendations to advance effective and meaningful environmental sustainability initiatives across our organisation. Her input and the resources she shared helped strengthen the process and ensured that the identified objectives and related actions were part of an integrated and coherent organisational change plan. Silvia’s involvement resulted in the working group producing the desired initial outputs faster than had they worked alone and without her expertise and knowledge."
​- Christchurch Methodist Mission

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The Place 'Sustainability Map': click to download

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“Sustainability is a way of thinking or an aspect of worldview that focuses attention on creating a world that encourages the mutual flourishing of the human and natural world, both now and into the future. It is a transformational way of thinking that, once embraced, requires changes in behaviour, decision-making, policy development, economic systems, and other social structures.”
(Rinkel & Mataira, 'Promoting community and environmental sustainability: a workbook for global social workers and educators', vol 2, 1st ed., Mycological Research, 2018, p34)

place
turanga
the place you stand
where you are
whenua, rangi, rohe
know how you impact the places around you,
beneath you, above you

place a challenge
lay a wero
to play your part
to reduce your emissions and waste
to step more lightly on the land

place a baseline
draw a line in the sand
know your carbon footprint
place markers for the path ahead