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We explore ways to advance more sustainable ways of living through communication and learning. Our research helps to understand and change how we satisfy our needs through and beyond consumption, for greater individual, collective, and planetary wellbeing.

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Category: Sustainable Consumption

Sustainable consumption

A quick guide on sustainable consumption as a research field including professional associations, journals, and resources.

Student Resources, 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

introspection, Literature Review, LUL, Open Theses Topic, Sustainable Consumption

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

Emotions, Literature Review, LUL, Open Theses Topic, Sustainable Consumption

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.

behavior change, intervention, living lab, research-based learning, sustainable food consumption

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.

citizen science, climate change, climate change education, project profile, research-based learning, secondary school

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.

project profile, rebound, research-based learning, secondary school, time competence, vocational education

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.

introspection, MBSR, meditation, mindfulness, mixed-method design

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.

campaign, eco-label, labelling

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.

cultural change, intervention, organizational change, participation, school culture, school development, transdisciplinary, university culture, whole-institution approach

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