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Greenopolis has partnered with The Natural Step (www.thenaturalstep.org) to provide our members with affordable online sustainability training. All Greenopolis members are eligible to purchase The Natural Step’s Sustainability 101 course for only $50, which is a 50% discount from the regular price. Please login to access the resources.
Sustainability 101™ is an award-winning, interactive on-line course that provides practical sustainability education. This course is appropriate for businesses, governments, communities and individuals that want to move strategically towards sustainability. It is currently being used by thousands of people in leading organizations around the world such as InterfaceFLOR, Rohm and Haas, Nissan, Levi Strauss, Nestlé Waters and others. After completing this course you will be able to:
- Outline the evidence for our current sustainability crisis, and describe this using a powerful metaphor.
- Describe the process of backcasting, justify the key role of systems thinking, and outline the basic scientific principles that underlie the concept of sustainability.
- Define the four basic principles for sustainability and use them to analyze actions from a sustainability perspective.
- Outline an “ABCD” process for strategic planning and decision-making toward sustainability.
- Show how various tools and approaches for sustainable development relate to one another.
Purchasing the course gives you unlimited access to the course and its rich resource section for six months. You can move through the course at your own pace and enter, exit or review sections at any time. Most participants find it takes approximately 60-80 minutes to complete the core content.
What are people saying about Sustainability 101™?
"Step by Natural Step is simply the best online course I've seen. It is fiercely pragmatic, directly relevant to all areas of society, and direly needed. The overarching scope of the material is elegant and inclusive, and lays out the framework and steps to heal our world and ourselves."
Luke Fortney MD – University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine
“I emerged from the course with renewed excitement and inspiration regarding my studies, and a large list of concepts and systems about which I needed to learn more. One benefit I did not expect were all the written and on-line resources made available to me. I am thrilled with my investment in the TNS e-learning course.”
Carolann Puster, Sustainable Community Development Major - Prescott College
"TNS' Sustainability101 e-learning course was the springboard for my organization's push toward sustainability…in any company, you need common understanding and shared goals to move forward with something as transformative as sustainability and this e-course delivered."
Barbara Turley McIntyre, Director, Corporate Citizenship - The Co-operators
