| Posted July 4, 2016

Sustainable Business Model Innovation for Start-Ups from NRW Germany

The CSR Hub NRW advances the goal of supporting today’s innovative start-ups to become tomorrow’s sustainable business champions. After a successful kick-off workshop in March 2016, the CSR Hub NRW invited entrepreneurs from North Rhine-Westphalia to the CSCP premises on the 5th July to jointly tackle the complex issues of today’s supply chain management and identify sustainable and innovative solutions for successful business models. Digitalisation, technological innovations, and the circular economy are constantly bringing new ways forward to design and manage a supply chain. New trends, such as an increased demand for local products or the emergence of prosumers, have businesses and […]

| Posted June 30, 2016

What Does Sustainability Really Mean to Your Own Lifestyle?

Launched by the CSCP on 31 May 2016, #mylifestylepledge is a movement that is inspiring people worldwide to think about their way of living and take personal and concrete actions to live a more sustainable lifestyle now. It is all about changing by experiencing sustainability. Pledges are coming nonstop, from Europe and Africa to Latin America and beyond! “My lifestyle pledge is changing my private bank [account] to a sustainable bank” —pledges at 3GF Mikkel Stenbaek Hansen, from the Danish Ministry of Environment. “My lifestyle pledge is less showers, less soaps and less loss of water” —pledges back Yvonne Zwick, from […]

| Posted June 21, 2016

Voices at the 10th Anniversary Unconference 2016

Two weeks ago the CSCP celebrated its 10 year anniversary with an Unconference that included 300 guests from politics, business, civil society and academia from around the globe. Before our event’s press release is published we wanted to share some of what our partners said about us on this special occasion: Dr. Reiner Hengstmann, Hugo Boss AG Uta Steffen-Holderbaum, Henkel AG Dietmar Bell, MP North Rhine-Westphalia Green Janine interviewed our guests with camera support from Tim Kickbusch. In the photo above Dr. Helio Mattar, President of the Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption is sending his best wishes for the CSCP. To […]

| Posted June 7, 2016

INHERIT is Looking for ‘Triple Win’ Ideas for a More Sustainable Future

INHERIT is about stimulating effective policies, practices, and innovations across different sectors that address key environmental stressors of health together with the underlying causes of health inequity. This Horizon 2020 research project aims at encouraging us to modify our current lifestyles characterised by a ‘take, make, consume, dispose’ model  of growth, to formulate scenarios for a more sustainable future, as well as design, implement, and test inter-sectoral initiatives to achieve the desired change. The following examples, drawn from our initial research, help protect the environment and can directly or indirectly improve health and tackle health inequalities, providing a ‘triple win’: Initiatives to […]

| Posted March 23, 2016

CSCP’s 10th Anniversary Unconference 2016

The Future of Sustainable Lifestyles, Industry 4.0, and the Circular Economy On May 31st 2016, the CSCP is hosting an Unconference to celebrate its 10th anniversary and achievements with those who made this story come true: over 250 decision makers from politics, business, civil society and academia from around the globe. We are featuring eco-innovations and the latest trends on sustainable lifestyles and circular economy, highlighting opportunities in food, textile, finance, ICT and cities.   We will feature… Speakers like: Alain Caparros, CEO REWE Group; Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Former Under Secretary General United Nations; Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-President […]

| Posted March 22, 2016

CSCP at EU-INNOVATE “Supporting Innovation For Sustainable Lifestyles”

As a part of the INNEON Network for Eco-Innovation Financing, the CSCP was invited join the EU-InnovatE workshop ‘Supporting innovation for sustainable lifestyles’ to discuss the role of the consumer as innovator and trendsetter in social and environmental sustainability processes. The workshop presented the first results of the three-years research project EU-InnovatE that involved 12,000 consumers in all European countries, business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, academics and discussed these with sustainability experts from Central Europe (especially Poland, Germany, Estonia and Hungary). It was intended to foster discussion on sustainability between top researchers, managers, public administration and civil society representatives in relation to: […]