Household activities in Germany
“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 […]
A sustainable life has by far nothing to do with avoiding plastic straws or homemade toothpaste. The new webapp “SUSLA” shows how changes in all areas of consumption such as living, nutrition or mobility can make one’s own lifestyle measurably more ecological. The second round of the “Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator” research project in Germany is […]
How challenging is it to live a sustainable life? Renate Dobratz, participant in the first round, describes her personal experiences in a radio report on the topic of “Neugier Genügt”. The feature ” Nachhaltiges Leben im Praxistest” is available on the WDR5 website (in German). * Photo: iStock
The campaign CITY CYCLING for sustainable mobility and bicycle promotion in German municipalities, initiated by Climate Alliance, went into the 2nd round! Nearly 1100 municipalities in Germany and thousands of local politicians, school classes, associations, companies and citizens took part again this year in order to make an important contribution to climate protection and to […]
On 11 July 1987, the Earth’s population exceeded 5 billion for the first time, according to the United Nations. Two years later, in 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) decided to declare the international World Population Day on that date in order to raise awareness of the challenges of a […]
Finishing the first round of the project in Germany, our participant Renate Dobratz described her experiences in an exciting radio feature on SWR2 entitled “Precious resources – how we consume less”. Further details and the link to listen to the entire feature can be found here (only available in German).
On 3 May 2019 the time had come – but no reason to celebrate! On this day the world population had consumed all regenerative resources for the entire calendar year 2019. At least if the entire world population had the same per capita resource consumption as Germany. To cap consumption, it would need 3 earths. […]
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 […]
A lifestyle with a maximum carbon footprint of three tonnes per person by 2030 – that is the goal that the eight pilot households in North Rhine-Westphalia are now working on! Those eight households participated the joint road mapping workshop at the Wuppertal Institut in the middle of January 2019. They developed first individual strategies […]
