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Sustainability - Our Part to Play
Europe and national governments are keen for us as nations to progress towards (or beyond) the targets set in the Europe 2020 strategy. Whilst it is accepted that our individual or household behaviours have a substantial impact on the environment it can be difficult for us to relate personal...
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Lego® Serious Play®: a tool to improve the involvement of social stakeholders. How to turn the abstract concepts (eg. sustainability or innovation) in a tangible artifact that you can transform, modify, shape and share.
Some months ago, I made a civic hackathon with Lego® Serious Play® method (LSP) for a municipality near Milan. The focus was “ new projects for a new social innovation” . Results: people communicated better, the goals have been reached more quickly and the ideas have been more concrete and...
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Digitized social chart record
The “smart welfare” project is granted by Lombardy Region with the aim to elaborate a social chart that can be used by the social workers of all the Municipality of Monza e Brianza Province (55 municipality). The social patient chart contains all the information needed to plan and...
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Opening minds and hearts with Foresight
At a time when the benefits of ‘openness’ permeate the policy discourse worldwide (the term ‘ open’ is actually articulating Governments’ discourses from Canada - Open data , Open information and Open dialogue - to Europe - Open Innovation , Open Science and Open to the world- ), it may...
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Today’s Concepts for a Sustainable and Mobile Tomorrow in Rural Areas
Our today’s lifestyle is far from sustainable and will change over the next years and decades. The EU’s goal is to become a low-carbon economy by 2050 . As in almost all of our societies’ and today’s lifestyle energy demand comes from the areas of housing, mobility,...
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DILEMMA: E-BOOKS OR PAPER BOOKS
There is no doubt that reading in and of itself has plenty of benefits for our minds. Studies have shown that reading over the course of a lifetime can prevent mental decline. Along with keeping your mind sharp and enlarging your knowledge base, reading can expand your sense of...
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When sustainability becomes a driver of innovation: the case of Last Minute Sotto Casa
Six hundred and fifty billion euro…this is the amount of money wasted every year in the form of food. More than a billion tons of good food products, almost 150 kilos per person, is thrown away every year. Even if in recent years there has been an increasing effort of industries and...
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Crowd-funding and sustainable innovation
Sustainable innovation is not just about successful exploration of new concepts or ideas but is also about their commercialization. It is more than just a new technology, product or service. It can be an adoption of a new process, new type of organization, system or even a business. Sustainable...
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One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure – Circular Economy and Growth Within
How often do you use your car? Do you know that on average cars in Europe are parked around 92% of the time and in the remaining 8% only 1.5 of its 5 seats are occupied? How much food do you throw out every day? Do you know that more than one third of the food is wasted along the value chain?...
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Experts’ take on citizens visions for the future
Typically experts work with hard data – they deal with numbers, observe trends, and make forecasts; their reflections often result in new knowledge about the subject studied, or in advice about immediate or future action paths. In the CASI project we challenged experts with a different...
