Sustainable lifestyles

How would our lives look in a sustainable future? How can we measure and mitigate the impacts of our consumption? How can individuals and communities contribute to broader societal transitions? SEI research develops tools and knowledge to support more sustainable consumption patterns and lifestyles.

New life from old clothes: SEI joins Nordic-Baltic collaboration towards a circular textile system

Feature / Today’s clothing industry has huge environmental impacts which the new project Towards a Nordic-Baltic Circular Textile System tries to mitigate.

26 March 2019 / About Sustainable lifestyles

Deforestation displaced: Trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition

Journal article / How do reforestation gains stack up against deforestation embedded in consumption?

22 March 2019 / About Food and agriculture, Land use, Supply chains and Sustainable lifestyles

Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions

Journal article / A pan-tropical survey of emissions, coupled with supply-chain mapping, links emissions to consumer markets.

22 March 2019 / About Food and agriculture, Forests, Mitigation, Supply chains and Sustainable lifestyles

Products containing phosphorus salmon fish, pine nuts, peanuts, anchovy, cheese, milk, eggs, broccoli, kiwi, potatoes, meat, beans garlic on a round cutting board and black wooden background

Eat your way to a healthier Baltic Sea

Feature / A look at phosphorus from mine to fork, problems it causes on the ocean and how we can leverage innovation to recover and reuse phosphorus.

22 March 2019 / About Food and agriculture, Innovation, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable lifestyles and Water resources

Women lose out more to paraquat

Media coverage / Paraquat chemical farming has serious health impacts on women.

7 March 2019 / About Food and agriculture, Participation and Sustainable lifestyles

Complementarity in mid-point impacts for water use in life cycle assessment applied to cropland and cattle production in Southern Amazonia

Journal article / How can the impacts of water use on water cycles be better represented in life cycle impact assessments?

8 February 2019 / About Food and agriculture, Supply chains, Sustainable lifestyles, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Sowing the seeds of bioeconomic transition

Feature / SEI's bioeconomy initiative is holding policy dialogues to support the creation of sustainable bio-based development strategies.

28 February 2019 / About Bioeconomy, Business, Innovation, Land use, Participation, Public policy, Supply chains, Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable lifestyles

New tool to help align strategic decisions with the 2030 Agenda

Press release / A new tool will align strategic decisions with the 2030 Agenda. The project involves SEI, Jernkontoret, Foxway and the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

21 February 2019 / About Finance, Public policy, Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable lifestyles

Close up of fresh oil palm fruits, selective focus.

Palm oil – can we enjoy it responsibly?

Media coverage / SEI's Ekaterina Bessonova unwraps the palm oil debate and explores why boycotting palm oil is not the solution.

17 February 2019 / About Climate policy, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Sustainable lifestyles