Cape Reinga
- The principles and spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi recognising Maori as Tangata Whenua and the need for restitution for injustices committed in our nation as essential to community well-being
- Local production as far as possible
- Using appropriate technology that enhances community and environment
- Reducing reliance on government support
- Micro-enterprise to provide local work opportunities
- Mentoring and apprenticing models for basic skills development (rebalancing the focus on institutional education)
- Organic, sustainable and environmentally friendly practices
- Diversity of production (mixed rather than mono-culture)
- Local processing of primary products into finished products
- Production primarily for local consumption for benefit of local people with export being secondary goal
- Reducing reliance on transportation through local employment and production
- Co-operative ventures and resource-sharing
- Networking of ideas and information
- Fixing rather than discarding
- Recycling and better yet creating quality products without wasteful packaging and toxic bi-products
- Local low-impact sustainable energy production
- Maintaining natural balances in the environment – wetlands, bush, reserves, native flora and fauna
- Nurturing smaller centres to avoid unhealthy urbanisation
- Revitalisation of smaller communities, schools, shops, community activities
- Recovering a value-based spiritual centre to our communities rather than our consumer-driven commodification of life
- Providing a future and a hope for our young people and future generations
- Re-visioning expectations away from quick-fix schemes to long-term societal well being