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Check out the latest newsletter of the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project! 

In the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project we are inviting everyone to start changing their lifestyle so that we all become agents of change for 1.5° living. In order to support this change, among other things, we have announced a challenges campaign between October 2024 and February 2025 in seven languages in our five case countries (Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Spain and Sweden), Finland as well as at the…

Interest in the environmental impact and carbon footprints of food is growing in Finland. At the New Age Building Festival (Uuden ajan rakentamisen festivaali or URF), held in Kerava, Finland, from July 26 to August 7, 2024, D-mat calculated the carbon footprints of all meals sold. Alongside vegetarian dishes, fish dishes were also available. The festival’s food vendors offered a wide variety of…

On October 1, 2024, the SISU consortium hosted the "Good Future Morning Coffee," a thought-provoking event focused on sustainable lifestyles and the essential changes needed in our mindset and societal frameworks. Professor Arto O. Salonen led the conversation, featuring insights from Jukka Kajan (Pro Vege ry), and Michael Lettenmeier (EU 1.5 Lifestyles project).

Our sister project, the EU-funded ‘INCITE-DEM : Citizens Reinventing Democracy’ aims at enhancing inclusive participation and civic engagement, while expanding democratic innovation and dynamic feedback mechanisms between citizens and institutional actors in Europe. Based on high quality research, the project will experiment with inclusive design processes for democratic innovation in practice by…

Our sister project, Climate CAMPAIGNers, has come to an end, but its impact continues thanks to a new exploitation strategy developed by the Energy Institute at JKU Linz and SB Konzept GmbH. The app will continue to serve as a tool for motivating and monitoring climate-neutral behaviours, and its scope will be expanded to reach a broader community of users, including companies and educational…

EU's 1.5° Lifestyles was presented at the MAIA project meeting on 18 July. The event focused on fostering collaboration between EU climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. Participants included stakeholders from sister projects such as BEATLES, KNOWING and TONOWASTE, as well as policy makers, innovators and researchers. The 1.5° Lifestyles project aims to change individual and societal…