Great to read this post on The Natural Step on your website! One week ago I was at your HQ to follow-up on our joined Art of Hosting experience in Karlskrona, Sweden. It seems our paths are intertwining in more than one way.

Recently The Natural Step has opened an office acting as a focal point in the Netherlands called Flexible Platform. If you would like to connect more with us on how to contribute to the sustainability agenda of the Netherlands please do not hesitate to contact me.

All the best,

Freek

But anyway, very important answer they have in the FAQ:

5. What do we need to do to become sustainable?

In order to create a sustainability society, we must understand the root causes of un-sustainability. There are only four things that we are doing that inhibit the earth’s ability to maintain us and future generations. The Natural Step arrived at these root causes of un-sustainability by leading an international panel of scientists through a consensus process. To create a sustainable society, we must:

* Eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of substances extracted from the Earth’s crust (for example, heavy metals and fossil fuels)
* Eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of chemicals and compounds produced by society (for example, dioxins, PCBs, and DDT )
* Eliminate our contribution to the progressive physical degradation and destruction of nature and natural processes (for example, continued over-harvesting forests and continued paving of critical wildlife habitat);
* Eliminate our contribution to conditions that undermine people’s capacity to meet their basic human needs (for example, unsafe working conditions and not enough pay to meet basic human needs)