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What is SANZ?

SANZ is a network of practitioners who share a common goal of driving Aotearoa New Zealand towards achieving long term sustainability. Our network is made up of:

• industry representation
• community groups
• academia
• professional bodies
• non-government organizations
• subject matter experts
• individuals

SANZ vision

SANZ will achieve its vision by:

1. Promoting the realisation of the vision in a way that motivates, empowers and inspires;
2. Fostering the emergence of Aotearoa New Zealand as a society that exercises guardianship of the community of life (kaitiakitanga) with respect to ecosystems, natural resources, healthy communities, free and responsible citizens;
3. Promoting whole systems thinking and design;
4. Engaging members and all sectors of society to contribute to the vision of a sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand through consensus building;
5. Linking members to create a powerful and empowering voice for sustainability in Aotearoa New Zealand;
6. Identifying and promoting appropriate sustainability principles, objectives, strategies, actions and indicators to support progress to greater levels of sustainability;
7. Promoting ethical and scientific rigour in sustainable practice through research, development, education and information sharing;
8. Learning from and valuing diverse knowledge systems and ways of understanding.

SANZ background

This group met under the name 'Sustainable Development Forum'. At the same time, a separate group under the name of 'Sustainable New Zealand' was meeting in Rotorua and Auckland with very similar objectives.

In good Kiwi fashion, the two groups merged and in 2005 SANZ was incorporated as a charitable trust. It is run by an elected board who have secured funding for the organization, created and launched this website, and made a commitment to facilitate the realization of a New Zealand Sustainable Development Blueprint, as called for by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the 'Earth Summit') in 1992 and committed to by the New Zealand Government Cabinet in July 2001.

Context

SANZ Purpose

SANZ's first and most important role is to communicate and educate, and our first task is to ensure that every New Zealander understands the true nature of the challenges we face, that they are a result of all human activity, and that they will require a united response of changed mindset and changed behaviour.

Our second task is to ensure that all sectors of New Zealand society are aware of the practical ways that SANZ and its members and member organizations can assist them to achieve the necessary changes.

SANZ Board of Management

SANZ Board Members 2008
Name (ordered by surname)	Region
Adams (nee Harman), Jane Tauranga Zespri International Show Bio	Bay of Plenty
Bosselmann, Klaus Waiheke Island New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, University of Auckland Show Bio	Auckland
Cartwright, Wayne Franklin (Chair) Department of International Business, University of Auckland Show Bio	Auckland
Davis, Peter Wellington Show Bio	Wellington
Lawton, Maggie Counties Manukau Sustainable Development Consultant Show Bio	Auckland
McGuinness, Wendy Wellington Show Bio	Wellington
Peet, John Christchurch Senior Lecturer (retired), Dept of Chemical and Process, Engineering, University of Canterbury Show Bio	Canterbury
Salinger, Jim Auckland Companion, Royal Society of New Zealand; Principal Scientist, NIWA Show Bio	Auckland
Trerise, Kevin Hastings Professional Training and Coaching Consultant Show Bio	Hawkes Bay
Verity, Rex Christchurch (Deputy Chair) Environmental Manager, Environmental Manager, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology Show Bio	Canterbury

Honorary: Kahui Legal, Wellington
Executive Director: Wendy Reid, Auckland
 

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