About the collective

The 42collective is a not-for-profit organisation based in Wellington, New Zealand, which aims to simplify and encourage the shift towards lifestyles that enhance personal wellbeing, maximise resource and energy efficiency and minimise harm to people and the environment - less-cost lifestyles.

Why less-cost lifestyles?

For many people personal happiness is measured by more and more stuff. This stuff costs hard earned money but also has other costs and effects that we don't think about much. If we knew more about these costs maybe we?d choose different stuff or less stuff all together. If by changing your choices you could be just as happy and cause less harm to other people and the environment - wouldn't that be a better way to live? Yeah - we think so too.

We think that wanting to enjoy life without harming others or the environment should be easy - not difficult. Because life is already busy and complicated, we want to help simplify the shift towards less harmful and more resource and energy efficient lifestyles.

Lifestyle is a personal choice, an expression of individuality. However, our lifestyles have impacts which reach beyond our own individual happiness. Responsibility for the impacts of our individual lifestyle choices is therefore a shared one - a collective one.

To facilitate a shift towards a less-cost lifestyle, the 42collective will organise and run campaigns throughout Wellington. Get involved... find out more.