by jarbel | Sep 24, 2023 | Film English, News, Sustainable Consumption
Watch Andrew Simms from the British think tank New Weather Institute in a seminar on banning advertisement for fossil fuel products and services. Last fall, the municipality of Stockholm announced it would introduce a fossil ad ban, prohibiting “all advertising,...
by jarbel | Jan 16, 2023 | Film English, News, Sustainable Consumption, Travel
New technology, changed lifestyles, and energy efficiency measures all have the potential to reduce emissions from our consumption. However, when we save money or time, what do we do with the resources that are freed up? If you don’t have a car, do you then fly...
by jarbel | Dec 5, 2022 | Furnishing, News, Sustainable Consumption
Product destruction refers to when companies get rid of products that are fully functional, often fresh from the factory. Researchers have now investigated why this happens and what can be done about it. The research results are recently published in an article by...
by jarbel | Nov 23, 2022 | News, Okategoriserade, Sustainable Consumption
Consuming resources by improving existing consumption patterns to make them more efficient is not enough. The total consumption level must decrease, otherwise it can never be sustainable. This is the conclusion of a new study compiling the research field on...
by jarbel | Oct 21, 2022 | Furnishing, News, Sustainable Consumption
Ola Persson at KTH is examining the rapid expansion of research on ideas such as sufficiency and post-growth in his thesis. Heather Schoonover at Lund University writes about business models for reuse of home furnishings in hers. Both have done their PhD in Mistra...