The Natural Step and Sustainability explained in 2 minutes. Finally someone has figured out how to explain The Natural Step and sustainability in two minutes!! We're so excited to share with you this fantastic animation video on core concepts of The Natural Step Framework. It was written by our brilliant friends at RealEyes in Dublin, who help organizations benefit from sustainability. And it was developed by our new friend Trevor Courtney at Igloo Animations. Trevors animation work is fantastic. We hope you will enjoy this video, like it and share it widely to help spread sustainability and the framework

Defining Sustainability - Business Insights produced by RBC features the founder of The Natural Step Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert. Dr. Robert discusses the importance of defining sustainability and using a common framework to help businesses succeed. Dr. Robert discusses elements of the framework for strategic sustainable development such as ABCD and the 3 prioritizing questions.

Nikos Avlonas, one of the founders and Managing Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) shares insights on sustainability during his visit at DePaul University. Learn more at http://www.cse-net.org

Professor Bartlett explains "sustainability" in the context of the First Law of Sustainability. Problems at local, national, and global levels are all tied together with arithmetic. And our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function. 

Excerpt of an interview with Larry Merculieff (Aleut) from the Native Perspectives on Sustainability project (www.nativeperspectives.net). Merculieff critiques the use and meaning of the term "sustainability," and he speaks to the potential for human beings to draw upon our inherent intelligence to live in alignment with all of creation.

 Satish Kumar is a former monk and long term peace and environment activist. Satish reflects upon the visionary leaders who have shaped his outlook and approach to life. These include Mahatma Gandhi, HH Dalai Lama, Bertrand Russell, John F. Kennedy and Fritz Schumacher.

Hear Ray Anderson, Founder and Chairman of Interface, Inc., discuss his next book, CONFESSIONS OF A RADICAL INDUSTRIALIST. As leader of an organization that has been on the path toward sustainability since 1994 with the goal of zero footprint by 2020, Ray credibly proves the business case for sustainability. (August 2009)

So what does sustainable innovation mean? Everybody says everything and anything about it and the concept can get blurry sometimes. We thought we'd give our own definition, elementary style, to get things clear! The "we" is Dassault Systemes the leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) headquartered in France.