How can we inspire sustainable living for a future society? By collaborating with decision makers, stakeholders and the public, we try to find concrete answers to that question by envisioning the future we want, exploring trends and options scale up promising lifestyle practices and providing a network for a collaborative approach Learn 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...
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...
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...
concepts for future sustainable lifestylesSustainable lifestyles and consumption choices are of increasing interest to consumers and researchers. To engage a wide cross section of actors and increase the impact of individual lifestyle choices it is necessary to [...] 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 What attracts consumers today might be out of date tomorrow.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...
Education plays an important role in changing lifestyle patterns. Teenagers are at a crucial age as they start to build their own ways of consuming. They observe the daily habits of people [...] Read more...
Efficient communication and interaction between policy makers, administrative agencies and the scientific community is needed to create a more sustainable society. Only through a network of these different actors is it possible to identify needs and potential solutions. Read more...
Business has a huge role to play in encouraging sustainable ways of living. As consumers become more and more aware of the environmental impacts of consumption, sustainable business strategies will increasingly offer new opportunities [...] Read more...
Research can offer important insights to a diverse range of stakeholders as well as increase the SCP knowledge base to enable strategic priority setting. For envisaged changes to become reality, research needs to be [...] Read more...
The civil society platform on sustainable consumption and production is working to make SCP a reality by supporting the engagement of civil society in SCP research and policy processes. Read more..
