Pathways to Sustainability (Utrecht University)’s Post

There are some fantastic insights in here from our super knowledgeable panelists Dr Susann Stritzke, Holly Letch, and Andrea Zick (She/Her) for any new Sustainability Managers or any #hospitality businesses looking to get started with #sustainability!

Thrilled to share that our Sustainability Analyst, Rebecca Ward, has had her insightful piece on the pressing issue of sustainability in the sport published on BusinessGreen! Read the full article below👇

“Transformations to sustainability require more than just technical fixes; they also require supporting and strengthening close relationships between people and the natural world. A recent paper (…) explores the importance of a diversity of what they call “relational approaches” in achieving sustainability transformations” #sostenibilidad #regeneracion #miradasistemica #iterdependendia Me acordé de ustedes: Pablo Villoch Pablo Reyes Arellano Leonardo Maldonado Tamara López Burgos Pedro Calcagni R Ronald Sistek Victor Mochkofsky Luciana Mitjavila y de tantos que vamos por la vida visibilizando sistemas vivos interconectados y la importancia de reconocernos interdependientes 💚🌱.

With a forward by Jan Gehl, this book by Carlos Moreno details how we can live in people-centred sustainable cities and neighbourhoods. My reading for the next couple of days!

"Transformations to sustainability are not about finding a single way forward but about recognizing that there are many paths." - Lead author Simon West Walking together in a world of many worlds "This new study underscores the importance of incorporating diverse voices, perspectives and relationships in the conversations about sustainability. To embody this approach, the authors have made their work available as an “open review” online, inviting others to 'add to, critique, and transform it in the years ahead as discussions around relational approaches continue to evolve'." https://lnkd.in/eXiYSBWT

This beautiful, open resource helps us understand the relationality of transformation to sustainability and beyond. Asking us to consider how we can "walk together in a world of many worlds." “Transformations to sustainability are not about finding a single way forward but about recognizing that there are many paths,” says lead author Simon West. “Sustainability science needs to move beyond universal solutions and strengthen engagement with the diverse ways of knowing, being and doing that exist around the world.” #SustainableTransformation #Sustainability

Published (open access) some weeks ago in the journal 'Environment, Development and Sustainability': an empirical paper on "the impact of eco-innovation on environmental performance in different regional settings: new evidence from Chinese cities". Many thanks to lead author Lichao Wu and my other co-authors Lili Wang and Xinyi Fang.

An interesting article:

🔊SCI DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH🔊 📗 Sustainable Consumption Institute Helen Holmes and critical friend Manisha Anantharaman have recently published fantastic books we’d love you to know more about 🕐The launch will be on the 19th of March, 2024, 3.30-5pm, in AMBS 3.049 and on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3TnVkpG ☕ Coffee/tea and snacks to be served at the beginning from 3pm - Recycling Class analyzes urban waste livelihoods, infrastructures, and social movements in relation to the flows and discourses of global sustainability and circular economy agendas. - Tracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle-class “communal sustainability” efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. - Coproduced “DIY infrastructures” serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. - Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Read more here 👉 https://bit.ly/4a1ptR3 - The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. - The chapters cover topics such as lost property, museum curation, plastic microfibres, thrift, music and even hair, illuminating how invisible and intangible materials conjure memories, meanings and identities, inextricably binding us to other people, places and things. - In turn, the book also engages with issues of sustainability and consumption, raising questions regarding society’s increasing need for material accumulation and posing some alternatives. Read more here 👉 https://bit.ly/3q5XwpP

Some sustainability solutions from people who know. (The article ends on page 44, but I don't know how to post an endpoint.) Thanks so much to Al Mercuro, Debbie Parrott, Nicole Klein, Rob Cohen, James Zacharias, Alex Hill, Glenda Brungardt, CTSM Jason Popp, Dave Sterne, William Krueger for your insights and your time!