What is "The Natural Step?"

The Natural Step is a science-based approach to the challenge of sustaining healthy human life, given the finite amount of the planet's natural resources upon which our human lives depend.

The founder of The Natural Step approach is Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert, a Swedish medical doctor and cancer researcher. Dr. Robert was troubled by the disconnect he saw between the concerns of parents of his pediatric cancer patients for their children's well-being, and the priorities the media and general public seemed to place on "getting richer and driving their cars faster."

In 1988 Robert consulted his scientific colleagues in Sweden and the U.S. about elaborating "the overall principles by which we can stop destroying our own habitat", and The Natural Step was born.