Chequamegon Bay Eco-Municipalities
and the Natural Step
What is an“eco-municipality”? An eco-municipality is one that has adopted a particular set of sustainability
principles as guiding municipal policy and has committed to a bottom-up, participatory approach for implementing this. Over 70 cities and towns in Sweden – 25 per cent of all municipalities in the country - have adopted a common set of sustainability principles and have implemented these widely and systematically throughout their municipal operations and larger communities. The communities have made a resolution to follow the Natural Step Sustainability Principles:
Learn more about the Natural Step below...
principles as guiding municipal policy and has committed to a bottom-up, participatory approach for implementing this. Over 70 cities and towns in Sweden – 25 per cent of all municipalities in the country - have adopted a common set of sustainability principles and have implemented these widely and systematically throughout their municipal operations and larger communities. The communities have made a resolution to follow the Natural Step Sustainability Principles:
- eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of substances extracted
from the Earth's crust - eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of chemicals and compounds produced by society
- eliminate our contribution to the progressive physical
degradation and destruction of nature and natural processes - eliminate our contribution to conditions that undermine people’s capacity to meet their basic human needs.[4]
Learn more about the Natural Step below...