for healthy people on a healthy planet
Nature and Society Forum is a non-profit community-based organisation that aims to promote the health and well-being of humans and the natural environment through:
- improving understanding throughout the community of the processes of life, the human place in nature, and health and environmental issues facing us today
- encouraging informed discussion and debate about the practical meaning of such understanding - for individuals, families, organisations and for society as a whole
- communicating the outcome of its activities as widely as possible through publications and the Internet
Background
Nature and Society Forum (NSF) was formed by a group of people who believe that:
- The present patterns of human activity globally, and in our own society, are not ecologically sustainable, and the survival of civilisation and the well-being of humanity will require significant changes in these patterns.
- Gross inequities exist in the conditions of life and health status of different sections of the human population, across the world and within nations. This situation also calls for major changes in society.
- The societal changes necessary for the achievement of sociological sustainability and improved health and equity will not come about unless/until there is greatly improved understanding, throughout the community, of the processes of life and of the human place in nature and of the environmental and health issues facing our society today.
- Such understanding is unlikely to be brought about through exisiting societal institutions
- There is therefore a need for a new kind of public institution/organisation in our society that can promote such understanding and facilitate informed discussion and debate about ecological and health issues.