There Is More Than One Way to Discuss the Aesthetic Dimension in Sustainable Development

Author: Noora-Helena Korpelainen Alex loves colour and taste, a holiday abroad, and sunshine with morning coffee. This Alex is you and me, a citizen of a wealthy country. It is Alex who is asked to change his/her preferences, choices, and practices for the sake of the planet and forthcoming generations – to be a hero …

Enhancing socio-ecological resilience by skilled food self-provisioning 

Large-scale industrial food production has been identified as a cause of environmental havoc. Growing and gathering one’s own food—or food self-provisioning—has again been proposed as a sustainable alternative. Owing to its small scale, local food self-provisioning requires less clear cutting of forests, mining for rare minerals, development of new chemicals, or resource intensive transportation infrastructure …

Environmentally sustainable business in the era of advanced technologies?

We have moved into a new geological epoch, an unprecedented era in which a certain species—Homo sapiens and in particular, certain groups of Homo sapiens, mainly concentrated in high-income countries—is changing nature more severely than natural processes are. Most of us living in high-income countries are overconsuming the Earth’s resources. As we do so, we …