Creating a better future for your business, your people, and your environment
Fresh Air Forests are carbon measuring and reduction specialists based in stunning Aotearoa, New Zealand
Fresh Air Forests is a team of sustainability consultants based in beautiful Aotearoa, New Zealand. We specialise in carbon measuring and reduction.
Our Fresh Air Forests partnership framework services include four-tier options, moving from discovering to creating a better future. Tier options include the production of a carbon inventory and report, including scopes 1, 2, and 3 to identify your business's annual Green House Gas (GHG) output. Services also include internal recommendations to reduce your business's GHG emissions. These recommendations create positive social, economic, and environmental shifts within your business.
Fresh Air Forests' offerings are engaging for your whole team through a variety of methodologies. Our sustainability plans focus on innovative methods to reduce your environmental impact (footprint) by utilising native tree restoration projects through our unique Treeprint calculator. Our native tree restoration projects include planting plans to offset your business's GHG emissions.
At Fresh Air Forests we are committed to growing a better future for your business, your people, 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
Partner Planting Pathways
Community based planting projects that you can be a part of
Multiple locations across the stunning Aotearoa
All New Zealand Natives
Education
Tall Timbers - outdoor education programs for your workplace
Tiny Timber - outdoor education programs for early childhood centers and schools
M.A.P.P - Movement-Active-Physical-Play programme and teaching resource workshop
Farm Emission Management
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.
Wendy Pirie
Wendy brings experience and a passion for transitioning evidence into practice, unpacking the role that movement and nature play in child development whilst raising three sons with husband Colin. Wendy's previous work as co-Director of Moving Smart New Zealand, Director of TimberNook New Zealand and early years project lead and Trustee for the EIT Institute of Sport & Health connects her to her special interest in linking health, education, and sport for the best outcomes for children.
In 2016 Wendy co-authored movement curriculum Move, Play & Learn with Smart Steps that was published in the USA, and in 2019 founder, Director, and curriculum lead of The DEN, a unique and innovative early learning centre for children 2 – 6 years based on two-acres of outdoor play space.
2024 begins Wendy's final year of Doctoral study at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) investigating the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a potentially scalable and sustainable teacher-led physical activity programme in an early childhood setting in New Zealand. This study has been supported by the Royston Health Trust and the Hawke’s Bay Community Fitness Centre Trust.
The importance of children playing outside
Advocate of outdoor nature education, Wendy Pirie says there are so many benefit of children running around outside and exploring their environment. She is the founder of an Early Learning Centre in Taradale, Hawkes Bay where children have 2 acres of natural play space.
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, health science researcher Wendy Pirie has developed a programme called MAPP – Movement Active Physical Play.
Our sustainability consultants not only help you measure your footprint, but also offset and reduce it.
Fresh Air Forests Ltd
34A Lawn Road,
Mangateretere, 4180
