“Do you dare to know your climate footprint?” – with this slogan scientists of the SUSLA team presented the webapp SUSLA on Zoom on 07.12.2021. You can watch the recording of this event at the link below (in English). On average, each and every individual can reduce his or her personal carbon footprint by at […]
Finland
Accelerating sustainable lifestyles in the City of Porvoo for the third time
Households of the City of Porvoo were invited already for the third time to participate in the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator arranged as a collaboration between D-mat Ltd., the City of Porvoo, and a group of local companies. During the Accelerator, the participating eight households got to know their current material and carbon footprint, learn what […]
Encouraging sustainable lifestyles with 14 Finnish municipalities
The acceleration of sustainable lifestyles continues, and accelerates, in Finland. In autumn and winter 2019-2020, in total about 250 households in 14 municipalities around Southern and Central Finland enrolled to plan and try out sustainable lifestyle choices for reducing their carbon and material footprints. D-mat organized ten roadmapping workshops together with the municipalities involved. In […]
Getting started: SLA in Finland gathered together nine municipalities to accelerate sustainable lifestyles in 2019
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 […]
Workshop in Porvoo, Finnland
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 […]
Night of the Science in Helsinki, Finland: Roadmapping workshop to decrease personal carbon footprint
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 […]
1st SLA round completed successfully in Finland!
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) * […]