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From Local Loops to Global Champions: Scenarios for Sustainable Lifestyles 2050

The fact that European lifestyles are not sustainable in the long term is hardly a surprise for anyone. However, there has been a total gap in through research into what kind of social structures and lifestyles can be disruptively more sustainable. In this scenario-report we present extensive and in-depth research…


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iFuture – The diversity of sustainable lifestyles

The law of supply and demand has not applied to the scarcity of natural resources and increased consumer prices. Consequently, the material nature of our lives has blurred. Stuff seems to appear and disappear from our lives as if they were immaterial. Now this is changing rapidly. iFuture – The diversity…


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Well-being of the Metropolis

The Helsinki region carries unique potential for lasting wealth. The strength of the region lies in the breath of capacities of its citizens: sustainable success of the metropolis can only arise from its people, with whom it can create sustainable well-being. This means that we make solving the great global…


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Politics of Happiness – A Manifesto

Most of us value happiness over wealth. In a democratic society this fact should influence politics. Happiness studies in the recent years however show that people are appallingly bad in evaluating what really makes us happy. The recent developments in scientific happiness studies from economics to psychology are ripe for politisation…


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Gatekeepers changing consumers’ behaviour in energy consumption

Authors: Tuuli Kaskinen, Outi Kuittinen, Aleksi Neuvonen, Roope Mokka  When analysing energy-relevant decisions, we have noticed that there are once-in-a-lifetime decisions (e.g. choosing the family home) that set the energy consumption, at a relatively fixed level, for years to come. When examining energy decisions further, the prime importance of gatekeepers…


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No Development without Addressing Climate Change

Authors: Tuuli Kaskinen, Olli Alanen, Aleksi Neuvonen, Pirkka Åman The report introduces the intersections between climate and development policies, UN climate policy, and basic concepts related to climate change for the use of development aid professionals. Published in the Kepa series of background investigation in April 2009. Report in Finnish,…


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