How does The Natural Step Framework help me make daily decisions?
Daily decisions about sustainability are full of pros and cons, so it can often seem like we are simply trading one problem for another when we make decisions. Without an overarching framework to help us evaluate our decisions, we can get bogged down in the feeling that we’re simply trading off between environmental, social, and economic factors. That’s why it’s helpful to take a ’backcasting‘ approach, where every decision can be evaluated within the context of a longer-term journey of alignment with sustainability principles. Backcasting from sustainability principles helps overcome the trade-offs by encouraging us to move away from thinking about whether one action or impact is better or worse than another, and instead begin to evaluate whether a particular action is taking us in the right direction and is a flexible platform for future actions. No single action will get us to our sustainability goals, so each action should be seen as a potential stepping stone toward further improv
