What are the Natural Step’s key principles for sustainability?
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About the video: ‘What are the Natural Step’s key principles for sustainability?’
Karl-Henrik Robèrt talks in greater detail about the key principles that underpin The Natural Step’s strategic framework for sustainability. In order to understand what sustainability entails, he says, we must first examine what ‘unsustainability’ means and how humanity is systematically destroying the natural and social environment. He exposes society’s four major design flaws and points to ways in which they can be corrected.
Total views: 3,518
Filmed: Montreal, Canada on 21 April 2006
Credits: Camera - Sylvie Van Brabant, Interviewer - Kelly Baxter, Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV/ The Natural Step
About Karl-Henrik Robèrt
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt is one of the world’s foremost sustainability experts. In 1988 he founded The Natural Step in Sweden, an international environmental non-for-profit that coaches organizations to become role models in sustainability. A surgeon by training, Dr Robèrt is a prominent cancer scientist. As a former Director of Research at the Karolinska Institute he has lectured widely on leukemia, lymphoma, lung cancer and their clinical implications.
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