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.
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 […]
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) * […]
India is one of the few countries with an average per capita ecological footprint that is still suitable for “one-planet living” which means it is supporting a sustainable lifestyle. But India is on the move. In future – coal induced – the energy-related CO2-emissions will nearly triple, electricity use has increased the last decades. Though […]
The project „Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator“ worldwide engages households to help exploring sustainable lifestyles. With the support of experts, households can try out what this would mean in practice. Households that have already participated in the project in other cities say that their lives have not only become lighter on resources, but also a bit happier. […]
After the questionnaires were evaluated, individual footprints for all areas of life and consumption were calculated for households. Each household received a report with graphs, broken down into the different areas of life, revealing their greatest savings potential to achieve a lifestyle that does not exceed 3 tonnes of CO2 per person. Four of six […]
