A FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATION,
DRIVEN BY PURPOSE.
Sustainability Options was founded in 2012 when brothers Nik and Phil decided to showcase what business for good could operate like, and how it just may be the recipe for sustainably conscious business development.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO BUSINESS
We understand that the typical business model is guided by profit margins and KPIs for profit and dividend maximization. That's not what spins our wheels. We want to be guided by doing good for others.
We also understand that registered charities don't pay taxes, and are constrained by being registered for tax exemption. That doesn't spin our wheels either. We want to pay our taxes, and we want to help as many people as possible by being a business.
We believe all businesses should be charitable and it shouldn't be left to registered charities to be the sole model of charity, compassion, care, and concern. Now that does spin our wheels.
SO, we have chosen to operate as an altruistic business.
What is an altruistic business? Well, it is a business that focusses on working for the common good. We focus on the creation of social value, believing that economic value will follow.
Our Why
Simply because we want to leave a more harmonious world for our children's grandchildren to live in- if we don't care for the environment or look out for one another, what sort of world will we leave?
Our Core Foundations
Our Vision
That we might inspire, encourage and see a world served by compassionate business.
Our Mission
Engage all willing people in doing business for social justice, environmental care, charitable good, people compassion.
Our What
Continue to advocate, promote, and engage as many people as possible in ethical and sustainable living solutions.
Our Goal
To visit every home and provide free sustainable living advice.
Want to know how we're achieving this in business?
From 2012, we've been intentional in showcasing this altruistic business model. Take a walk down Sustainability Option's memory lane and see just how we have been walking this talk in a variety of sectors.
Our Sustainability Report
We’re pleased to share our 2025 Sustainability Report - a reflection of a year where our purpose became even more deeply embedded in the way we work. With heartfelt thanks to our Sustainability Advisor, Amy Earles, for her tireless commitment to monitoring our carbon footprint and capturing our sustainability activities, this report offers more than numbers. It opens a window into the passion and generational thinking that guide our mahi: the desire to leave a more harmonious world for our grandchildren’s grandchildren.
Over the past 12 months, we’ve continued to strengthen our impact across our three concentric circles of work - improving the housing conditions of low‑income whānau, offering free sustainable living advice to anyone who needs it, and supporting other businesses to operate more sustainably. From expanding our community workshops, to deepening our understanding of whānau wellbeing, to challenging ourselves to better embody the Inner Development Goals in pursuit of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this year has been one of steady, meaningful progress.
This report unpacks that journey - the environmental, social, and community outcomes we’ve achieved, the lessons we’ve learned, and the aspirations that continue to guide us. We invite you to explore the stories, data, and reflections within, and to join us in imagining what becomes possible when business is driven by care, compassion, and the common good.
CONTACT US
Mobile:
022 156 1027
Email:
20degrees@so.org.nz
Address:
59 Seventh Avenue, Tauranga
F.R.O.G.
Forever Reliant On Good
We operate by being forever reliant on good - doing mahi for the good of others and for the good of our environment. Along the way, hoping we inspire others to incorporate the FROG into their organisation too.