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A Hundred and Fifty Shades of Green
From Evidence to Action Sustainability is not held back by a lack of ambition. Strategies, frameworks, and targets are everywhere. The real challenge lies elsewhere – in turning that ambition into action. This is the starting point of A Hundred and Fifty Shades of Green . Rather than...
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Aligning Innovation, Policy, and Transitions
Three Worlds, One Challenge Sustainability transitions are often described as complex. But complexity is not the real problem. The real challenge is fragmentation. Across Europe, three powerful but largely disconnected “worlds” are shaping the transition to sustainability:...
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Governing Sustainable Innovation in Practice
Governing Sustainable Innovation in Practice What does it take to make innovation truly sustainable? For decades, innovation has been seen as a driver of growth, competitiveness, and technological progress. But as global challenges intensify – from climate change to resource scarcity – it...
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Turning Ideas into Sustainable Impact
From Ideas to Impact: What 46 Innovation Roadmaps Teach Us About Sustainable Change in Europe What does it really take to turn a sustainable idea into real-world impact? Over the past decade, “sustainable innovation” has become a widely used term—sometimes so widely that it risks losing...
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The unbearable lightness of being right
An expert is a person who know more and more about less and less, until she/he knows everything about nothing. Yes, been there and done that. That’s why projects such as CASI are dramatically important. They make us know more and more about more and more, while at the same time ensuring...
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The Importance of Sustainable Innovation in Sport
The purpose of this blog post is to address the challenge how sports can be engaged as an important channel to reach citizens and to inform them about society’s challenges related to environment and resource efficiency. Additionally, by providing information and setting an example by...
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Electronic Waste: Producers’ Responsibility?
Every year millions of tonnes of e-waste are produced worldwide. This number has always been growing since we started using electronic devices, but in the past decade the rise was higher than ever before. The relatively young segment of consumer electronics has surely added to the trend. But...
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Is it a matter of scale?
Is it a matter of scale? Is it a matter of scaling up sustainable innovations in order to transform societal systems of production and consumption into sustainable ones? And if so, how can sustainable innovations increase scale? In the transition management literature, a difference is...
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How do Technological and Social Innovations Merge
In the CASI project at first we intended to divide sustainable innovation (SI) cases in technological and social types. But is it possible to treat technological and social types of sustainable innovation as separate analytical silo’s? Let’s take the example of BIOMASSER...
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Hand-built and human-powered amusement park hidden in Italian forest: a sustainable alternative to traditional amusement parks
It all began on 15th June 1969 with two jugs of wine, a bag of sausages and a grill. Two men walked by and asked: “What is this?”. Bruno replied: “It’s a restaurant”, and Ai Pioppi was born. Located in Nervesa della Battaglia in the north east of Italy, the family...
