Sustainability: The Leadership Challenge
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt
Founder of The Natural Step, Sweden

Lunch and Lecture
Friday, September 22, 2006
Professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt, M.D., Ph.D., is one of Sweden's foremost cancer scientists who, in 1989, initiated an environmental movement called "The Natural Step." The Natural Step is a strategic planning tool for sustainability used successfully by organizations, businesses and communities around the world. Dr. Robèrt is Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Product Development at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has written many books, articles and scientific publications on sustainability. In 2000, Dr. Robèrt won the Blue Planet Prize, considered by many to be the "Nobel Prize of the Environment."

View the video of Dr. Robèrt's luncheon presentation below.

Presentation Materials:
Slides only, 2.4 MB PDF
Slides and speaking notes, 2.2 MB PDF
Program (including resources and an overview of The Natural Step and the Nova Scotia Education for Sustainable Development Working Group), Page 1, 0.2 MB PDF; Page 2, 0.1 MB PDF
Robèrt et al., Strategic sustainable development — selection, design and synergies of applied tools 0.7MB PDF

Organized by Genuine Progress Index Atlantic, the Nova Scotia Environmental Network, and the Nova Scotia Education for Sustainable Development Working Group

Thank You to our Event Sponsors!!

	Halifax Regional Municipality
	Resource Recovery Fund Board
	Jacques Whitford
	Just Us! Coffee Roasters
	Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour
	Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development
	Town of Wolfville
	Arthur Irving Academy for the Environment
	Voluntary Planning
	Eco-Efficiency Centre
	P'lovers The Environmental Store