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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 TNSNZ site is currently being updated. Please have a look around, but do come back again soon. Our information will be updated shortly.
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
- Making $ense of Sustainability - Early bird price for NelsonSunday, 25 July 2010 | Submitted by Simon Harvey
If you have an interest in sustainability, and want to know how your or your organisation can do more, save more and make more - you'd be crazy to miss this opportunity.
The early bird price for the Nelson TNS NZ learning event finishes on Thursday 29th July. At under $850 for a two day masterclass, the Natural Step's learning event is real value for money.
You'll learn how to follow a tried and tested approach that future-proofs for an increasingly uncertain world, whilst adding to the bottom-line and reaping the benefits of smart, sustainable practices. Let's face it, the world has woken up to the fact that sustainable business is good business.
- PROBE: groundbreaking tool for sustainable business excellence - training opportunityThursday, 03 June 2010 | Submitted by simonharvey
By Jan Harrison
Total Quality Management and The Natural Step - PROBE for Sustainable Business
- The Electronic Age - Video clips for presentationsThursday, 03 June 2010 | Submitted by simonharvey
By Mardi Neumann
Generation Z or the Digital Natives are the latest generation. They are the link to the internet generation. As a Gen X person myself, I realise that knowledge is a good thing, yet I am increasingly suspicious that a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
- Climate Change in New Zealand - Turing off the carbon tapsThursday, 03 June 2010 | Submitted by simonharvey
By Shaun Bowler
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) recently suggested that New Zealand’s current environmental priorities are wrong. They suggest that as a country we should focus less on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and more on adapting to the effects of climate change. In addition, say the NZIER, we should prioritise improving air quality and protecting our biodiversity over reducing greenhouse gas emissions and waste minimization.
- Shrinking the ecological footprints of New Zealand’s local communitiesThursday, 03 June 2010 | Submitted by simonharvey
By Ella Lawton
Otago Polytechnic Centre for Sustainable Practice is a partner in the Footprinting Urban Form and New Zealand Lifestyles project. The project will use the Natural Step’s framework for strategic sustainable development as an overarching framework to provide a principles-based definition of sustainability both for the project as a whole, and for the community plans and initiatives that are intended to arise out of it.