A quick guide on sustainable consumption as a research field including professional associations, journals, and resources.
Category: Sustainable Consumption
Measuring self-awareness as a key competency for sustainable development
Competency frameworks for sustainable development aim to define skills, abilities, and proficiencies individuals need to become change agents for sustainable … More
Emotions and (sustainable) consumption
Individual consumption, understood as all actions of procurement, use and disposal of things and services that serve to satisfy needs … More
Intervention Education | ASU’s Campus as a Sustainable Consumption Lab
We design a cross-unit academic program in which students are trained in interdisciplinary behavior change research and experiment with evidence-based interventions to shift student food consumption behavior on campus.
FoodLabHome | About the Project
FoodLabHome is a citizen science project in which school students study their own households to measure food waste (FW) and implement interventions to reduce FW-related greenhouse gas emissions.
ReZeitKon | About the Project
The ReZeitKon project explores how individuals perceive and make use of time, in particular saved or “free” time, and how these usages of time relate to and can be changed towards more sustainable consumption. SuCo2 leads the education intervention subproject.
BiNKA | Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness
The BiNKA project explored how mindfulness training can reduce the gap between intentions and behaviors and thereby promote sustainable consumption. SuCo2 led the education subproject in BiNKA.
Blue Angel | Communicating Eco-Labels to Young People
The Blue Angel is the oldest environmental label in Germany. The project sought to develop new communication strategies to popularize the label among children and adolescents and promote their sustainable consumption.
BINK | Educational Institutions and Sustainable Consumption
In the BiNK project, an interdisciplinary team of researchers partnered with practitioners from educational institutions to change the culture of consumption in schools and universities.
