WiserEarth Group Support

The mission of TNS is to catalyze systemic change and make fundamental principles of sustainability easier to understand and meaningful sustainability initiatives easier to implement.



The Natural Step framework provides a shared mental model, understanding, and common language that facilitates cooperation across organizations, disciplines, and cultures. It encourages dialogue, consensus-building, and incremental change – key processes of organizational learning – and creates the conditions for significant change to occur.



The Natural Step framework is based on systems thinking, recognizing that what happens in one part of a system affects every other part. The Natural Step framework focuses on first-order principles at the beginning of cause-effect relationships. The framework provides a compass that directs individuals and organizations toward environmental, social and economic sustainability.



The Natural Step (TNS) is an international non-profit organization in twelve different countries that uses a science-based, systems framework to help organizations, individuals and communities take steps towards sustainability.