OUR LIVING VISION
Who we are
Aotearoa Composters Network (ACN) is a network of compost hubs, clubs and compost consultants who support communities, businesses, households, and institutions to compost their food scraps and organics. We help our local communities and ecosystems to flourish through localised organic resource recovery and composting.
Vision
Thriving communities across Aotearoa, living with an abundance of healthy soils and food.
Mission
Empowering change towards circular systems through active composting partnerships and resilience education throughout Aotearoa and abroad.
Values
Aotearoa Composters Network (ACN) is a network of compost hubs, clubs and compost consultants who support communities, businesses, households, and institutions to compost their food scraps and organics. We help our local communities and ecosystems to flourish through localised organic resource recovery and composting.
Vision
Thriving communities across Aotearoa, living with an abundance of healthy soils and food.
Mission
Empowering change towards circular systems through active composting partnerships and resilience education throughout Aotearoa and abroad.
Values
- Honouring Te Tiriti.
- Partnerships, collaboration and interconnectedness.
- Wellbeing and resilience:
- Te ao tūroa - the natural world.
- Opportunities for people - achieving equity.
- Localised systems, circularity and zero waste
STRATEGIC GOALS | INGREDIENTS | RECIPE
Partnership
Build, support and create
We live nowhere but here - our place, our lives, together, our future.
Objectives
Build, support and create
We live nowhere but here - our place, our lives, together, our future.
Objectives
- Strong meaningful relationships between community and mana whenua.
- A comprehensive network of composting organisations across Aotearoa.
- Organisational partnerships with Zero Waste Network, Para Kore, Te Waka Kai Ora.
- Gain understanding of our area through relation with hapu and iwi.
- Build an organisational structure.
- Secure funding to support the network structure.
- Working with our regions.
- Creating shared systems.
- Collecting and collating measurable data.
- Sharing resources.
- Develop an MOU with Zero Waste Network.
- Relationship building with Parakore and Te Waka Kai Ora and others working within the food system
Rapid Systemic Change
Secure, empower and lobby
Nature knows the way and we will follow, let's join the flow to accelerate toward a circular system
Objectives
Secure, empower and lobby
Nature knows the way and we will follow, let's join the flow to accelerate toward a circular system
Objectives
- Ti Tiriti obligations are upheld within our network and our partnerships
- To be a strong voice for change in the composting sector.
- Different compost initiatives responding to local needs and collective impact.
- Food sovereignty in every community, demonstrating food resilience and self-determination.
- Circularity and zero waste systems in action.
- To communicate the vision.
- Secure funding to increase processing and education capacity across the country.
- Create local jobs.
- Create high impact, local scale compost systems.
- Lobby policy and advocate for change at all levels.
- To have tikanga and te ao Māori at the forefront of decision making.
- Clarify, describe and define the future that we will live in.
- Demonstrate circularity and zero waste systems.
Education
Informed, empowered and equal
We all grow as knowledge flows from mind to mind, from community to community across Aotearoa.
Objectives
Informed, empowered and equal
We all grow as knowledge flows from mind to mind, from community to community across Aotearoa.
Objectives
- Informed responses to climate change.
- Appropriate strategies for organic material management to generate high quality compost.
- Emissions reduction which enhances soil and compost quality in Aotearoa.
- Responsive to community learning needs.
- Accessible education for diverse communities
- Storytelling and marketing - making regenerative work relevant. sexy
- Te Tiriti education and training.
- Advocating to build the social profile of the benefits of compost.
- Developing educational opportunities within and outside of the network.
- Create clear standards and guidelines on best practice for compost/soil health.
- Appropriate learning strategies for active learners.
Wellbeing
Culture, connection, fun
We thrive on soil enlivened, empowered in communities inspired.
Objectives
Culture, connection, fun
We thrive on soil enlivened, empowered in communities inspired.
Objectives
- Support healthy culture.
- Food is nutrient-dense, locally-grown, culturally appropriate and abundant
- Food resilience
- Healthy ecosystems
- Connecting people to the land and each other.
- Tāngata Whenua and Tāngata Tiriti control their own resources, whenua, kai, and nutrient cycles.
- Establish a living network culture document and conflict resolution strategy.
- Empower locally led solutions.
- Establish compost initiatives in every community
- Support and empower Māori lead initiatives.
- Make compost, have fun.
