Concept  
Why Create the NRSP?
What will the NRSP do?
What defines Responsible Environmental Stewardship?
First Year Initiatives

Concept

NRSP is a federally incorporated, non-profit, non-partisan organization that will promote responsible environmental stewardship through:

• broad-based media, government and public relations; 
• consumer education and advocacy; 
• private initiative and the promotion of private property rights;
• market-based approaches; and
• sensible and efficient legislative and regulatory frameworks, particularly at the federal level.

Why Create the NRSP?

Our rich natural environment helps shape our identity as Canadians, however:

• the care of our natural environment has changed from being about individual responsibility to being about government action and that of unaccountable trans-national Non-governmental Organizations ('NGOs') – this is bad for the economy and for individual Canadians;
• this change has diminished individual citizens' initiatives and has served to undermine private property rights;
• many of the initiatives of government and NGOs conform to a narrow ideological agenda – not science or rational economics;
• the problem is worsening and all political parties are being drawn into this approach; and
• this situation is damaging our economy more than it is helping our environment – a highly publicized third-party response is urgently needed to address this deteriorating circumstance.

• inform Canadians about responsible, science-based environmental stewardship. Good information must be placed in the hands of ordinary citizens if governments are to feel compelled to make rational policy choices.
• monitor the efficiency of governments’ environmental initiatives. A watchdog function is necessary to keep government from continuing to simply respond to the pressure of unqualified environmental lobby groups.
• advocate for changes that will promote common-sense government action on the environment. Hundreds of thousands of constituents communicating with their politicians about an issue get results. 
• promote responsible environmental stewardship by individual Canadians. Responsible individual action, not command and control, is critical.

What defines Responsible Environmental Stewardship?

The wise care of our natural environment for all creatures, including, first & foremost, our fellow human beings.

1. The prudent use of all resources seeking to:
   minimize unnecessary pollution;
   transform waste into resources; and
   improve the material conditions for all people.
2. The formulation of practical environmental policies based on:
   logic;
   scientific objectivity; and
   understanding of risk.
3. Individual, not government, action as the preferred means to achieve common goals. 
4. An understanding that private property encourages private responsibility.
5. A recognition that regulatory control of resources is best at the most local level possible.
6. An understanding that more economic freedom permits more responsible individual action.

First Year Initiatives

First Priority Project:

“Understanding Climate Change”
A proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol and other greenhouse gas reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy.

Second Priority Project:

“The Science Audit Centre”
The establishment of an independent and highly credible auditing mechanism to properly review scientific studies before they are employed as a basis of national and international environmental policy decisions