Creating a better future for your business, your people, your children and your environment
Fresh Air Forests are sustainability solution specialists based in stunning Aotearoa, New Zealand
Fresh Air Forests is a team of sustainability, health and education consultants based in beautiful Aotearoa, New Zealand. We specialise in sustainability solutions for you, your children and your business.
Our Fresh Air Forests business is made up of a team with the skills and knowledge to support positive, holistic, sustainable outcomes and positive change. Our offerings are unique and engaging.
Our business sustainability goals focus on innovative methods to reduce your environmental impact (footprint) by utilising native tree restoration projects through our unique TreePrint calculator.
Our human development sustainability goals focus on designing playgrounds to encourage connection with nature and ensure child development through play.
Our professional development sustainability goals focus on education and knowledge bespoke to your environment.
At Fresh Air Forests we are committed to growing a better future for your business, your people, your children, and your environment.
Fresh Air Forests have a passion for positive change through sustainability. We are your sustainability solutions specialists.
Carbon Footprint Measurement
Carbon inventory preparation
Guidance in identifying reduction opportunities
Education on greenhouse gas factors and how to reduce
Production of sustainability reports
Pathways
Community based planting projects that you can be a part of
Playground design
Catchment group meetings
Workshops (online or in-person)
Conferences
Bespoke consultancy
Education
M.A.P.P - Movement-Active-Physical-Play programme and teaching resource workshops
Tall Timbers - outdoor education programs for your workplace
Tiny Timbers - outdoor education programs for early childhood centers and schools
Farm Emission Management
Farm environmental plans
Farm emission tracking
Farm management plans
Ecological services
Innovative farm guidance
Colin Pirie
Meet our Managing Director and CEO Colin Pirie. Colin brings over 20 years of experience in the environmental and sustainability field, which enables him to offer a deep understanding and passion for sustainability, native tree restoration, and environmental best practice.
Colin holds a diploma in project management and has over a decade of experience in executive and director roles. Much of Colin’s experience has involved overseeing and retiring land into native tree restoration projects through both councils and the private sector.
Colin is based in Hawkes Bay.
Dr Wendy Pirie
Wendy holds a PhD from the Auckland University of Technology and has been working with children, their families, teachers, and clinicians since 2004 unpacking the role that movement and nature play in child development. In 2016 the movement curriculum Move, Play & Learn with Smart Steps, co-authored by Wendy was published in the USA. Her previous work as Australasia Director of TimberNook, co-Director of Moving Smart New Zealand, early years project lead and Trustee for the Hawkes Bay Institute of Sport & Health and founder of the DEN, a unique and innovative early learning centre for children 2 – 6 years links to a special interest in connecting nature, health and education for the best outcomes for children.
Kaleb Pirie BSc
Kaleb has completed his degree with a double major in Environmental Management and Economics from the University of Otago. Kaleb has carried out specialised training and completed certification in preparing a carbon inventory and identifying carbon reduction opportunities.
Kaleb is our Environmental Manager based in Christchurch with a strong connection to the natural environment and growing a better future for this generation and the next.
The importance of children playing outside
Advocate of outdoor nature education, Dr Wendy Pirie says there are so many benefits of children running around outside and exploring their environment. She is the founder of an Early Learning Centre where children have 2 acres of natural play space and previous Director of TimberNook New Zealand.
For pre-schoolers, a healthy amount of active play is 3 hours per day
According to the World Health Organisation, children under 5 need 180 minutes of physical activity every day. To help early childhood teachers give pre-schoolers the physical activity they need to succeed, researcher Dr Wendy Pirie has developed a programme called M.A.P.P – Movement Active Physical Play.
Our sustainability consultants.
Fresh Air Forests Ltd
34A Lawn Road,
Mangateretere, 4180
