Mainstreaming projects
Mainstreaming
We mainstream products, services and lifestyles that represent sustainable living. Long-term systematic change requires questioning mainstream beliefs. This includes facilitating the labeling of products and services according to sustainability criteria and making them available at mainstream retailers. Learn more...
Recently established, the INNEON network for eco-innovation investment aims to extend the public and private funding sources available for eco-innovation and social innovation in Europe. INNEON will provide a unique forum dedicated to the interaction between a select cohort of innovators and relevant investors. Read more...
Each and every one of us makes dozens of large and small decisions every day. Should we buy locally grown apples or rather strawberries shipped from far away. The NRW Sustainable Lifestyles project aims to help people make informed decisions while at the same time [...] Read more...
Many companies are engaging in corporate social responsibility activities. Yet many of these same companies are challenged to effectively communicate with consumers about their efforts. To understand the information needs of different target markets, the CSCP undertook a survey of consumer-oriented CSR communications [...] Read more...
The Budding Ideas Glocally for 2050 project, also known as BIG2050 aims to demonstrate that, not only is sustainable living possible today, it will be also be considerably more so in the year 2050. By analysing consumption patterns and how these patterns influence lifestyles in five different countries, BIG 2050 aims to [...] Read more...
With the aim of making sustainability easy, improving lives for all, the CSCP launched a series of events named the “Workstudios”. These multi-stakeholder events combine keynote speeches, TED-style panelists, visioning workshops, strategic planning and match-making activities [...] Read more...
Thailand has long been recognized as a highly competitive Asian base for vehicle production. The industry has experienced rapid growth over the past decades and this growth has had environmental consequences. SMEs represent a large proportion of the auto and automotive parts sector in Thailand. Read more...
Thailand has among the most highly developed SCP policy frameworks in Asia. The success of sustainable consumption approaches is in part connected to the Thai tradition of being a sharing society. Read more...
Energy efficiency offers among the greatest quickest, and most cost-effective options to reduce energy consumption and mitigate climate change. There are various technologies and policy [...] Read more...
On the 14th of February 2012, the CSCP together with the Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production, Mediterranean Action Plan, Boğaziçi University Sustainable Development and Cleaner Production Center and [...] Read more...
Increasing urbanization and climate change are two of the great challenges of the 21st Century. Cities cover only 1% of the Earth‘s surface, but are already home to about 50% of the Earth‘s population. Up to 80 % of global greenhouse gas emissions are estimated to originate in urban areas, providing large mitigation potentials [...] Read more...
Is it possible to improve human health and life quality in an ageing European society while at the same time reducing current levels of energy, transport and resource use? Social innovation and significant changes [...] Read more...
In today’s society lifestyles are rapidly changing. What attracts consumers today might be out of date tomorrow. Regardless of changing consumer preferences one fact remains consistent: lifestyles are imposing ever greater demand on increasingly scarce resources. [...] Read more...
Growing populations coupled with increasing patterns of consumption across the world call for a change in consumption towards more sustainability. Progressive projects and initiatives that encourage the shift toward sustainable consumption patterns [...] Read more...
Successful dissemination of sustainable products and services is necessary to support sustainable lifestyles. As a cooperation and communication tool an online platform can enable targeted communication between relevant stakeholders [...] Read more...
The building and construction market with its emerging interior renovation and decoration activities is booming in China. But there are severe health and environmental [...] Read more...
What strategies are necessary to enable issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, unhealthy eating habits and poor social conditions to find their way into the mainstream media? How can a broader cross section of the population be educated on sustainable consumption and environmentally [...] Read more...
Sustainable products and services offer untapped opportunities for future oriented entrepreneurship and innovation. Some 80% of the life cycle environmental and social impacts that arise from products are determined during its planning and development phase alone. By fusing creativity, understanding and entrepreneurship, eco-friendly, fashionable, and fair products and services can be realised. Read more...
The Expert Conference on the Marrakech Process – Creating Solutions for SCP provided a platform for experts from around the world to collaborate on finding pathways to sustainable consumption. The conference enabled the global [...] Read more...
