How are the SLA participants doing? Our counterparts from India asked Harshaan Singh how he experienced the first round. In the video, the architect reveals why the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator project is so important in India and what his family has already changed. * Video: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
In Finland nine municipalities are about to activate their citizens to try out sustainable lifestyles during the autumn 2019. To get it all started, D-mat and representatives from the municipalities met in June in Porvoo, where eight families participated in the project last year with great results. The sunny (but windy) day consisted of sharing […]
Gustavo and his family (The Rojas) have been the most participative, experimental and involved people in the SLA Mexican team. Throughout a month they changed some habits or implemented new ones to their daily lives; from using fabric towels, to reducing their plastic bag usage when buying groceries. The Rojas went all in. But there […]
In addition to the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator, last year the inhabitants of the Finnish city of Porvoo also had the opportunity to participate in the European project ENERGISE. This projet focused on new practices in room heating and laundry. On 7th March, a common public seminar has been evaluated the participants’ experiences. There was also […]
The controversial textile discounter Primark opens a new branch in Wuppertal, no more than two hundred metres from the Wuppertal Institute. A good opportunity to rethink one’s own clothing consumption and the way one deals with the wardrobe’s interior. Our pioneer households did this in the experimental phase of the SLA project and thus reduced […]
For the second time the young students of Fridays for Future Wuppertal* as well as other interested people, visited the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. This time, Prof. Dr. Christa Liedtke and Jens Teubler gave a lecture on “Good and sustainable Living”. The reason for this was the big Friday demo, which took […]
In December, households started to implement actions designed to reduce their footprint. A family sold their car right at the beginning and has definitely switched to public transport. Another household has dealt intensively with its electricity consumption.
How to decrease the personal carbon footprint? That’s exactly what was discussed at the Night of the Science in Helsinki, Finland: A Roadmapping workshop to decrease personal carbon footprint to 2.5 tons by 2030 was organized with approx. 60 citizens of Helsinki as a part of Night of the Science in Central Library Oodi. After […]
In our first round we work with six Mexican families that were interested in decreasing their carbon and material footprint. So, after analyzing their questionnaires and knowing more details about their lifestyles, we had a brunch-workshop at “La Excusa”. In detail we explained what is the main goal of SLA project and the difference between […]
Our eight Finnish households have completed their first SLA-round. With their daily sustainable choices they managed to achieve a 27 percent smaller carbon footprint and 20 percent smaller material footprint. Congratulations, you are fantastic! The following figures show the Footprint reduction of the eight Finnish households in detail: Read more (Finnish and Swedish) * […]
