| Posted December 9, 2024

Digital Product Passports: Assessing True Sustainability Through Contextualised Impact Metrics

Simply put, a Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a tool that offers relevant and encompassing information about a product and its lifecycle. As such, Digital Product Passports (DPPs) can play a key role in revealing the true impact of circular activities, but only if paired with context-based indicators. Here’s why. By detailing components from raw material sourcing to end-of-life recycling, DPPs enable practices like reuse and repair, essential for sustainable resource management. However, assessing their true impact requires context-based indicators that ensure circular activities align with ecological and social boundaries. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one such method, using DPP data […]

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The Second Round of the co-do lab Hello Transformation Programme Wraps Up Successfully

What happens when you bring together transformation leaders, hands-on learning, and inspiring surroundings like Gut Einern in Wuppertal? Hello Transformation comes to life—a programme where ideas flourish, connections deepen, and sustainability takes center stage! In October 2024, the co-do lab’s Hello Transformation programme welcomed its second group of participants at Gut Einern, Wuppertal for another creative and impact-oriented sustainability experience. The two-day journey for future transformation leaders built on the foundation of the first round that took place in early 2024, diving deeper into the themes of sustainability, leadership, and community building. Returning participants and newcomers, including individuals from sectors like […]

| Posted December 5, 2024

Al-Invest Green Codes: Empowering Costa Rican SMEs for a Sustainable Future

At a time of mounting environmental and economic challenges, Costa Rica’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are grappling with complex regulatory frameworks and increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices. Navigating these challenges can be overwhelming. Our Al-Invest Green Codes (Códigos Verdes) project steps in with hands-on support to empower and enable SMEs in their sustainability journeys. The project is driving a transformative shift toward sustainability for Costa Rican SMEs by offering a comprehensive methodology to assess and implement sustainable practices and equip them with tools and resources to co-design roadmaps tailored to their needs. In collaboration with the Costa Rican Chamber […]

| Posted December 4, 2024

7 Tips for Tackling the Attitude-Behaviour-Gap

What exactly do we mean when we talk about the ‘attitude-behaviour-gap’ and what role do nudges, convenience, purchasing choices, positive tipping points, citizen-priced products and lower washing temperatures each have in reducing it? CSCP Project Manager and behaviour change expert, Rosalyn Old shares 7 tips on tackling this challenge. The attitude-behaviour-gap In her book “Das 60% Potenzial” (The 60% Potential), Dr. Johanna Gollnhofer suggests that over half of the consumers are neither too ethical in their choices nor completely reluctant to move toward more sustainable behaviours. Similarly, experts at the Sustainable Future Summit emphasised that focusing on the ‘60% group’ is […]

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Turning the Lifestyle Test Results into Meaningful Action

How can tailored insights transform industries, shape policy, advance research, and enhance community engagement? This question was at the heart of the recent PSLifestyle workshop series, where stakeholders from various sectors gathered to explore actionable solutions for a sustainable lifestyle. The Lifestyle Test, developed as part of the PSLifestyle project, has emerged as a powerful tool that identifies key sustainability hotspots and consumer behaviour patterns across Europe. Since its launch in 2023 in eight European countries, over 300,000 tests have been taken, resulting in more than 27,000 personalised plans aimed at reducing individual footprints. In October and November 2024, the project […]

| Posted December 3, 2024

The SPOON Project Kicks-Off: Harnessing Citizen Science to Transform Food Systems

Current food systems are at the root of pressing environmental and social challenges. The SPOON project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme, offers a transformative approach to tackling the interlinked challenges of European food systems by taking a citizen science approach. Traditional top-down solutions have proven insufficient for addressing the complexities of modern food systems. SPOON reverses the approach by empowering citizens, alongside other food stakeholders, to act as co-creators of knowledge and solutions. At its core, SPOON employs a digital toolset that includes a multimedia questionnaire generator and a personal data wallet. These tools enable individuals to collect, […]

| Posted November 28, 2024

Circularity at a Regional Level: Join Us at the Official Launch of the bergisch.kompetenz Project on 28 January 2025!

Are you interested in learning how Circular Economy can look like in practice in a regional or city context? Our bergisch.kompetenz project, which is located in the Bergisch city triangle in Germany, is a case in point how different partners, including three regional manufacturing companies, are working together to create systemic circular solutions. Join us at the official launch of the project on 28 January 2025! The project focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the metal-based industry – a flagship of the region. Taking a hands-on approach, we explore and address important questions such as how does the actual […]

| Posted November 21, 2024

Advancing Your Sustainability Performance Through Targeted Use of Data: Discover Our SustainableSteps Tool!

What is SustainableSteps? SustainableSteps is an innovative self-test that helps you to analyse and improve your handling of data for a more sustainable business practice. This online tool, developed within our WertNetzWerke project, offers you the opportunity to assess various aspects of your activities and gives you valuable insights into your sustainability performance and opportunities for improvement. Why is sustainability data important? The availability and targeted utilisation of sustainability data is an important prerequisite for making your company sustainable. SustainableSteps is a tool that supports you in determining the current status of your company from the aspect of sustainability data. Based […]

| Posted November 20, 2024

PRECIOUS: Designing More Effective Food Waste Prevention

Our new EU Horizon project, PRECIOUS targets food loss and waste, a major contributor to global emissions, by using systems thinking to prevent rebound effects and reduce environmental impacts. Often overlooked, food waste and loss (FWL) further exacerbates food insecurity, puts a strain on waste management systems, intensifying the crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. PRECIOUS seeks to address these challenges head-on by using a systems-thinking approach to understand and mitigate the environmental impacts of FLW across the food supply chain. One of its key goals is to prevent rebound effects, situations where good intentioned measures inadvertently create new […]

| Posted November 16, 2024

Your CATALYST to Sustainable Transformation Has Been Launched – Check it Out Now!

Are you a professional, entrepreneur, or student looking to sharpen your skills for sustainable transformation? Over the past two years, our CATALYST project has developed an innovative educational platform with an extensive range of courses, services, and networking opportunities to support with the knowledge and skills needed to lead the way in sustainable business transformation. In November 2024, the CATALYST project officially launched its innovative educational online platform, bringing together over 80 participants from across Europe in a hybrid event held in Wuppertal, Germany and online. The platform aims to address one of the biggest barriers for businesses in driving sustainable […]

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