What Covid-19 taught us about sustainable travel
COVID-19 led to global travel restrictions that impacted the way we spent our holidays. Researchers have now explored what these travel behaviors can teach us to support the transition to more climate-smart holiday options in a new scientific paper. Between March and...
Call for abstracts for big conference about sustainable consumption
SCORAI Europe Conference 2025 will bring together 400-500 researchers and practitioners concerned with sustainable consumption to make progress on mainstreaming sustainable consumption. This conference focuses on the challenges, strategies, and successes of...
Webinar: Relational approaches to power in sustainability transitions
Watch a webinar by Helene Ahlborg, Associate Professor at Chalmers in a series of webinars about consumption and power. Encompassing systemic change of societies involve the destablisation and reproduction of power hierarchies in struggles over influence and control....
French fashion companies resist fast fashion – embracing “sufficiency”
Long-term sustainability, quality, and fairness are the guiding principles for French "slow fashion" companies developing their business models on the concept of "sufficiency." – These companies focus on consumers' actual needs, in contrast to fast fashion companies...
“They Didn’t Want to Stop Playing”
BILD: Andrea Linerstad, kulturarvspedagog och Maria Nelenius, lärare. Del av spelet till höger. "The Game of Consumption" was developed by researchers at KTH and Linköping University for Mistra Sustainable Consumption. But now, a museum educator and a middle school...
New perspectives on the sustainable consumption society
What do retirees in rural areas, newly arrived women, high-income earners in cities, and experts think about sustainable consumption? This is explored by Åsa Svenfelt, an associate professor in sustainable development and futures studies, in a new scientific article....
Climate Smart Vacation Made Easier with updated travelandclimate.org
Thinking about going on a road trip and camping this summer? Or taking the train to Berlin and staying in a hotel? Now it’s easier to compare vacation options based on their climate impact. On travelandclimate.org, travelers can compare and assess the climate impact...
Webinar: Power and the State in Degrowth Transformation
Against the background of a planetary emergency and the lack of empirical evidence for absolute decoupling of GDP growth from resource consumption the lecture makes a case for degrowth. It addresses the complexity of degrowth transformations and suggests ways to...
“Sufficiency” can be measured with life cycle analysis
IMAGE: Hampus André, researcher at KTH Despite research clearly indicating that sufficiency measures are required to address the environmental challenges we face, today's life cycle analyses are not designed to measure them. However, a new article now demonstrates how...
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