ACCELERATING CHANGE TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

Strategic Planning for Sustainability Workshop
Introduction to The Natural Step Framework

• What is sustainability?
• How do you know that you are moving in the right direction?
• What is the opportunity of strategic sustainability?
• What is the Natural Step Framework?
• How have businesses and communities applied it?

Throughout the workshop, you will have the opportunity to engage in dialogue, learn from case studies, and apply tools that are useful in bringing this unique framework to life.

Learning Objectives
•  to realize the need for systems thinking and an operational definition of  sustainability in addressing current global crisis ( i.e. the need to be strategic)
•  to  become familiar with a generic model for decision making in complex systems
•  to understand the distinction between strategic steps towards sustainability (backcasting) and continuous improvement or best practices (forecasting)
•  to be able to present the general characteristics of basic principles of sustainability and best practices for applying the framework from sustainability leaders by a number of organizations (large and small)

When: Friday, Feb. 6th 8am – 12pm (PST)
Where: UBC at Robson Square, Vancouver
Cost: $89 before January 16th, after $100 (last day to register February 2nd)
 

This event is SOLD OUT! Please contact us if you are interested in future Vancouver The Natural Step workshops.

 For more information:
Tel.604-374-8445 email: mszpala@naturalstep.ca

The Natural Step is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to education, advisory work and research in sustainable development. 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.

www.thenaturalstep.org/canada