New Zealand
Adding Sustainable Value - Auckland
The Adding Sustainable Value business programme is designed for innovative and ambitious businesses that want to pursue strategies for more sustainable growth.
Participating businesses learn with their peers to analyse their current operating business model, explore creative options for integrating sustainability at a strategic level, and be awarded an NZQA qualification in sustainable practice from Otago Polytechnic.
A limited number of discounted places are available to Auckland businesses. The programme consists of four professionally facilitated workshops and individual coaching sessions.
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Auckland Masterclass - Sustainability for Leaders - 2012
TNSNZ is running a two day training Masterclass on 30th and 31st May 2012 - Sustainability for Leaders.
This powerful two day learning event will explode your understanding of sustainability and enable you to adopt a smarter, strategic, step by step approach to integrating sustainable practices into your organisation.
You'll learn 5 powerful tools and 4 fundamental design principles that enable a truly strategic approach to sustainability, and that will deliver ongoing benefits to your organisation.
Our sought after training courses are a perfect opportunity to learn about the Natural Step's internationally renowned framework for strategic sustainable development, and to commence your pathway towards becoming an accredited advisor for the world's most recognised sustainability framework. Places are limited to 15 people on a first come, first served basis.
Click here for further details and the programme; or contact us at tnsnz@thenaturalstep.org or call Simon Harvey on 021 808 300.
The Natural Step NZ
The Natural Step NZ is a leading provider of advisory services, training and support for kiwi organisations recognising the financial benefits of a strategic approach to sustainability. Our team of highly qualified accredited advisors are experts in helping you and your team make sense of sustainability. Our clients not only enjoy the financial pay offs of a sustainable approach, but also reap the rewards of an enhanced reputation, improved staff morale, and reduced risk profile.
TNSNZ is a not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity. Our focus is on enabling others to do well by doing good. If you wish to support our work by way of a donation or sponsorship, please get in touch.
To find out more about how we can help you, and to learn about our upcoming training courses, email us at natstep@naturalstep.org.nz.
The Natural Step network - a global community
The Natural Step global network is an international network of sustainability professionals 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 organisations. With many accolades and international awards under our belt, The Natural Step is a proven source of reliable and high quality advice on sustainability.
Rigorous science. Practical solutions.
The Natural Step Framework is a proven, scientifically robust model that helps organisations take practical steps towards being more sustainable. We research the science of sustainability and link it to real world applications. We create dialogue about the opportunities and challenges in building a sustainable future. We are accelerating change toward sustainability.
If you're serious about sustainability, contact us on natstep@naturalstep.org.nz to find out how we can help.
"The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion."
Leif Johansson, CEO, Volvo Group
LATEST NEWS
- Living Buildings in New ZealandTuesday, 03 April 2012 | Submitted by Simon Harvey
Imagine projecting the mega trends of un-sustainability onto a building project. We would see all the symptoms of unsustainability; climate change impacts, ecological degradation; escalating energy, water and travel costs; inefficient HVAC (air) creating uncomfortable houses and offices that make you ill; risk aversion at every stage, creating silo solutions and a race to the bottom of the cost & quality barrel.
What would a building look like that addressed all these issues and responded strategically to these constraints? Imagine that it went even further and used bio-mimicry design to generate solutions that positively improve our society, environment and economy? Well these buildings exist already. They are called Living Buildings.
- Sustainability for Leaders - 2 day MasterclassTuesday, 03 April 2012 | Submitted by Simon Harvey
Training programme - 30th and 31st May 2012
If you’re one of those people who sees sustainability as a huge opportunity to drive innovation and find better ways of doing things, then this is for you. If you’re looking for some sound principles that can underpin your efforts to reduce environmental impacts, whilst also improving the way you meet your customers’ needs; this course will provide the answers you’ve been looking for.
- Adding Sustainable Value - business courses with 70% scholarship funding available!Tuesday, 03 April 2012 | Submitted by Simon Harvey
One size does not fit all when it comes to business improvement and sustainability strategy. We believe that businesses can achieve better sustainability performance improvements when they really understand the full range of issues involved, and have a simple, smart framework that develops a tailored response to their particular business situation. When people are competent to take action, change happens and it sticks. So we go beyond a focus on waste and energy to help businesses examine and understand all the opportunities.
- Karl-Henrik Robèrt and other Blue Planet Prize winners call for Transformational Change in paper launched this week at UNEPThursday, 23 February 2012 | Submitted by Kelly Hawke Baxter
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Founder of The Natural Step, joined a group of the world’s leading scientists and experts in sustainable development today in calling for urgent changes to policies and institutions to enable humanity to tackle environmental crises and improve human wellbeing.The group – all past winners of the Blue Planet Prize – have gathered in London to finalise a paper that will be launched at the UN Environment Programme’s Governing Council meeting in Nairobi on 20-22 February.
The paper will emphasise transformational solutions to key environment and development challenges. It highlights the policies, technologies and behaviour changes required to protect the local, regional and global environment, stimulate the economy and enhance the livelihoods of the poor.
The paper, Environmental and Development Challenges: The imperative to act comes ahead of the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in June, which marks the 20th anniversary of the historic UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Earth Summit).
To view the draft paper, please visit Blue Planet Laureates: Environmental and Development Challenges – The Imperative to Act
- The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiet Revolution (NEW: Now available in audiobook format!)Thursday, 10 November 2011 | Submitted by Neil McCallum
By Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Founder, The Natural StepNOW AVAILABLE IN AUDIOBOOK FORMAT! See details below...It may be unlikely that a Swedish karate champion, family man, and cancer scientist could be at the center of developing a systems approach to life on Earth that could revolutionize the way humans operate in the world, but this is the story of just that: the idea and the man behind it.
As a cancer specialist, Karl-Henrik Robèrt faced a stream of parents who would sacrifice anything to save their children. Yet that same selflessness did not seem to extend to saving the environment, as debate on how to achieve sustainability was divided, with no agreement on universal principles. But Robèrt's experience convinced him that consensus on how to meet the most basic requirements of life should be possible.
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