Planning Guide Resources

The Natural Step Canada has compiled a number of complimentary resources to the Planning for Sustainability guide that will help expedite your sustainability journey. We are happy to share these additional tools and will continue to update this site with new materials and links. Please check back with us again.

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The Aalborg Commitments Implementation Guide explains how to establish a cyclical sustainability management process step by step.

Ahead of the Curve is a twelve minute video by Sea Studios Foundation that presents the business case for climate action.

AskNature is a free, open source project, built by the community and for the community. Our goal is to connect innovative minds with life's best ideas, and in the process, inspire technologies that create conditions conducive to life.

Bloom's Taxonomy for cognitive learning and teaching represents a hierarchy of educational objectives, which divides cognitive objectives ranging from the simplest behaviour to the most complex.

The Dictionary of Sustainable Management is an open dictionary for business leaders and students of sustainability and business-related terms. It is a project of the Presidio School of Management.

The Good News Network's mission is to provide a "Daily Dose of News to Enthuse" as an online clearinghouse for the gathering and dissemination of positive news stories from around the globe.

The Green Communities Guide was developed by the Land Stewardship Centre of Canada to provide community stewards (e.g. municipalities, developers, citizens, and stewardship organizations) with practical tools to improve the conditions of their local environments, leading to improved quality of life, health and well being.

Local Sustainability is an Internet portal established by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability - to provide a platform from which European local governments can easily access the wealth of resources available to them in developing, implementing, and monitoring policies in support of local sustainable development.

Making Your Impact at Work: A Practical Guide to Changing the World From Inside Any Company, a Net Impact e-publication, is designed to empower current and aspiring social intrapreneurs to find ways to integrate sustainability into their day jobs.  

The Sustainable Cities: PLUS Planning Cycle is a generic summary of the principles and stages of long-term planning for sustainability developed by Nola-Kate Seymoar and the PLUS Network Steering Committee, using a participatory action research approach and based on the experiences of various cities that are members of the PLUS Network.

Strategies for Change from WWF-UK is a new work stream which contributes to the growing debate about how best to effect environmentally-friendly behavioural change. In particular, the project examines the importance of our collective social values in driving behavioural change, and the ways in which such values are shaped.

The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook: How to Transform your Company by Bob Willard is a practical, easy-to-follow guidebook that helps sustainability champions at any level in a company lead a transformation to a smarter, more successful, and more sustainable enterprise. The Guidebook outlines the transformational steps to take, tips and techniques to use, and derailers to avoid.

Sustainable Prosperity produces research and policy tools to help build a productive Canadian economy that values our natural world.

The Sustainable Communities Awards through FCM and CH2M HILL offer national recognition for projects that demonstrate environmental responsibility and excellence. Truly sustainable projects take a holistic, integrated approach, where economic, social and environmental factors are inextricably linked.

The Systems Thinker Newsletter presents a systemic perspective on current issues with illustrative stories from the field, useful tools and practices, and provocative thought pieces to keep readers pushing their learning edge.

Theory U uses Otto Scharmer's experience working with some of the world’s most accomplished leaders and innovators, showing how groups and organizations can develop seven leadership capacities in order to create a future that would not otherwise be possible.

Vital Signs is an annual check-up conducted by community foundations across Canada that measures the vitality of our communities, identifies trends, and shares opportunities for action in at least ten areas critical to quality of life.