The Natural Step Network

The challenges facing today’s municipal leaders and planning professionals are daunting. Communities are complex and diverse systems with multiple stakeholders, and there are often very different ideas about how to assure a balanced triple bottom line and a safe and healthy future. Without a strategic vision for a sustainable community, planning efforts can spin off into multiple green initiatives, diluting effort and effect.

The Natural Step Framework can help planning professionals embed sustainability into the planning process, resulting in vibrant, resilient communities. The process is rooted in science and applies principles of social equity and natural systems, and has been successfully applied in communities ranging from Whistler, British Columbia, to The City of Madison, Wisconsin, to Santa Monica, California.

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