oikos Johannesburg is the first local oikos chapter in on the mother continent. Established in 2007, oikos Johannesburg seeks to strengthen sustainability-oriented knowledge and entrepreneurship among today’s and tomorrow’s leaders. To achieve this, oikos Johannesburg will hold activities comprising of lectures, conferences, simulation games and workshops as well as practice-oriented sustainability projects.

Students are tomorrow's decision makers and we believe that their understanding of sustainability will help them integrate social, ecological as well as economic concerns in the decisions they will be taking. Increasing students sustainability knowledge is key to a making a difference in the long run.

For oikos Johannesburg, development, viewed in a management perspective, is not just about bigger profits, about big bucks, but it is about making life better for all of society’s stakeholders. Development is about raising the quality life for all. We dream of an economy that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. We are thus working towards an economically reasonable, ecologically sound and socially equitable economy

Our vision is thus based on the three pillars of sustainable development: the social, economic and ecological ones. Through education we know it will be possible to put back economy and ecology together so that the meaning of both terms return to their original root and so we can all live in a well managed house for generations to come

oikos Johannesburg aims at increasing the ability of students to analyse the challenges to our ability to attain sustainable development and actively implement solutions. The organisation strives to integrate sustainability topics into the curricula of universities as a means to impacting the decision making of tomorrow’s leaders. Lastly, oikos Johannesburg seeks to create a network encompassing civil society, academia, business, the public sector as well as students as a way to create a united force for sustainability.

All of this is achieved through the seven guiding principles:

• Consolidate the key motivators of sustainable development to strengthen the impact of initiatives.
• Integrate the different aspects of sustainable development to formulate coherent substantial conclusions.
• Interpret sustainable development through various practical means.
• Implement strategies to see the success of sustainable development come to the fore
• Facilitate programs and initiatives that will transpire sustainable development affairs
• Co-ordinate the elements of sustainable development into a framework that will guarantee optimum mutually desirable outcomes
• Articulate sustainable development into an intelligible language