So many of us feel nature deeply.
But when it comes to making it matter in meetings, boardrooms, or procurement processes—it can be tricky...
In this post, you’ll find 15 ways to start weaving nature into business decisions, some are so simple, you can start today.
These insights came from our recent Community Connect events on Nature & Nature Governance, where we explored these four key questions together:
🌱 Where Nature connects with your organisations activities?
🌱 How are you making decisions? What are your processes?
🌱 How can you bring Nature in?
🌱 What do you need?
What we heard was clear:
It’s not that people don’t care about nature, it’s that they’re unsure how to make it land in boardrooms or show up in everyday decisions. So, we crowdsourced and co-created some of the first steps you can take right now.
✨ You will discover
- ✅ Easy first steps
- ✅ Simple structural steps
- ✅ Advanced actions
Ask “What would nature say?”
Use this question in meetings, design sprints, and daily decisions to bring a nature lens.
Bring a nature object into the room
A stone, shell, leaf, or photo helps symbolise nature’s presence in decision-making spaces.
Use nature-based language in your comms
Shift from extractive to regenerative language: from “natural capital” to “living systems,” “resources” to “relations.”
Share what works
Tell short stories about nature-aligned decisions in team meetings, emails, or internal channels. Celebrate successes.
Post nature inspiration and insight in teams or social media
Share a nature adventure, reflection, case study, Indigenous teaching, or quote that reconnects colleagues to nature.
Block 30 minutes a month for nature reflection
Hold space with your team to pause, reflect, and ask how nature is showing up in your work.
Add a nature prompt to agendas and board papers
A single line asking “Have nature impacts been considered?” can shift focus and behaviour.
Use internal checklists or templates
Embed prompts into procurement, project reviews, or risk assessments that ask about nature.
Bring nature into reports
Include nature insights or case studies in your ESG or annual reporting.
“Can Nature help run a company? Have a say on the decisions that impact it? And a legally binding vote? Absolutely it can. (And it should).”
In this toolkit you will discover:
👉 the steps you can take to include the voice of Nature on the board of your organisation
👉 how to give Nature a voice in decision making
👉 how your organisation can contribute to a global shift in placing Nature at the heart of everything, and
👉 an updated list of businesses pioneering nature governance along with step-by-step process of how they did it
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We are intentionally welcoming individuals and team whom we can support through a community of peers to:
❤️ Feel energised, supported and a sense of belonging
🙌 Save time and discover solutions to your sustainability challenges
🤓 Share and receive knowledge and insights on impact themes
⚡ Collaborate to create and scale the tools for transformation
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The Future Planet community of action is vetted and intentionally curated to include:
- Professionals from across functions and sectors in medium and large organisations
- Purposeful pioneers and leaders of innovative solutions, and
- Policy influencers
Individuals and teams are from organisations including Asda, Estee Lauder, Capgemini Invent Nestle, Sodexo, Suez, Entain and many more.
Together we can ✊🏽
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