The Natural Step
We are a leading partner for organisations ready to address humanities grand challenges to create a better future. We enable decision makers to manage complexity, define their future position and seize opportunities for short and long term success.
Since 1989, we have worked with thousands of corporations, municipalities, academic institutions and not-for-profit organizations that have proven that moving strategically toward sustainability leads to new opportunities, reduced costs and dramatically reduced ecological and social impacts.
With almost thirty years of experience helping organizations and individuals understand and make meaningful progress toward sustainability, The Natural Step has 12 offices with associates and strategic partners in 54 countries.
Theory of Change
They have '4 principles of sustainability', which are described in the diagram below. This constitutes their definition of "sustainability" which they aim to implement and attain.
They aim to have positive impact across three dimensions:
- (a) Empowering individuals – empowering interested people to become effective change agents for sustainability;
- (b) Organisations – creating future-fit organisations and role models for sustainable business and communities;
- (c) Facilitating systems change towards future-fitness – delivering break-through results that make whole systems more sustainable.