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1st Sustainable Summer School - design walks_ value through less

International design students from all disciplines meet at the sustainable summer school to design the future of everyday life and rituals The summer school “value through less” offers students from all over the world the unique possibility to design and to shape the future lifestyle in a sustainable way. The workshop starts with an excursion to visit locations from the period of coalmining which are now transferred into sustainable re-use.

As an introduction to the subject the students will participate in the first two workshop days of the international congress “The Future of Sustainable Products and Services” Innovation Conference, 28./29.09.09, where renowned experts on business, scie [...] Read more

Workshop "How to enhance communication of environmental product information between retailers and their suppliers as well as their consumers?"

The UNEP/SETAC workshop "How to enhance communication of environmental product information between retailers and their suppliers as well as their consumers?" was held on 28 – 29 April 2009 in Wuppertal. This unique event brought together more than 30 key actors, including major retailers and manufacturers. Participants discussed how to improve and facilitate communication of product life cycle information, shared information on life cycle approaches and identified strategies to foster sustainable production and consumption patterns.The workshop lasted one and a half days. On the first day the focus was on understanding the opportunities behind the life cycle thinking in the retail  [...] Read more

Conference on sustainable consumption and production "Dialogue & Action Platform for Sustainable Consumption and Production"

The "Dialogue & Action Platform for Sustainable Consumption and Production" is organised by the CSCP and will take place in Wuppertal on 16th - 18th of March 2009.

The objective of this conference is to provide a platform for actors that are engaged in SCP issues in order to enhance their involvement and their cooperation in this field. Different actors – civil society organisations as well as researchers – will come together and have the possibility to exchange their ideas, to generate new ones and to formulate possibilities of implementation. This space for discussion and participation will enable them to identify research needs, to target future cooperations and to increa [...] Read more