Sustainability: Home

Climate University

Leadership for sustainable change -course

Sustainability MOOCs on Coursera

Sustainability MOOCs on MOOC LIST

Sustainability courses on edX

Sustainable consumption – overshoot

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - An applied scholarly journal on circular economy (OPEN ACCESS)

Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings.(OPEN ACCESS)

Sustainability - the United Nations

Sustainable De­vel­op­ment Solu­tion Net­work North­ern Europe

Sustainability Mindset Indicator

Sustainability Unwrapped podcast series / Hanken School of Economics

Planet Centric Design

• Planet centric design is a methodology for designing products and services that do not harm the planet.
• Method & tools

SDG Impact Assessment Tool

• The SDG Impact Assessment Tool is a free, online resource for research and educational institutions, companies, entrepreneurs, civic organizations, and public agencies to make self-assessments of impacts on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Sustainability Tools / Google

Sustainability transformations are rapid and broad changes in all societal systems. The goal is to secure ecological sustainability and human wellbeing. We need to change our thinking, practices and policies, ecogically, socially and economically. (Finnish Environment Institute SYKE Policy Brief 2021.)

Articles about sustainability transformations:

• Geels, F. W. 2011. The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: Responses to seven criticisms. Environmental innovation and societal transitions, 1(1), pp. 24-40. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2011.02.002
• Kivimaa, P., Laakso, S., Lonkila, A. & Kaljonen, M. 2021. Moving beyond disruptive innovation: A review of disruption in sustainability transitions. Environmental innovation and societal transitions, 38, pp. 110-126. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2020.12.001. OPEN ACCESS
• Lam, D. P. M., Hinz, E., Lang, D. J., Tengo, M., von Wehrden, H. & Martin-Lopez, B. 2020. Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations research: A literature review. Ecology and society, 25(1), p. 3. doi:10.5751/ES-11305-250103. OPEN ACCESS
• Leventon, J., Abson, D. J. & Lang, D. J. 2021. Leverage points for sustainability transformations: Nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice. Sustainability science, 16(3), pp. 721-726. doi:10.1007/s11625-021-00961-8
• Linnér, B. & Wibeck, V. 2021. Drivers of sustainability transformations: Leverage points, contexts and conjunctures. Sustainability science, 16(3), pp. 889-900. doi:10.1007/s11625-021-00957-4
• Olsson, P., Galaz, V. & Boonstra, W. J. 2014. Sustainability transformations: A resilience perspective. Ecology and society, 19(4), p. 1. doi:10.5751/ES-06799-190401. OPEN ACCESS.

Other materials:

• Research Approach - Sustainability transformations / Helsinki Institute of Sustainability science
• Sustainability Methods and Perspectives -book OPEN ACCESS.

Transition Design

Transition Design is an area of design research, practice and study which looks toward design-led societal transition toward more sustainable futures. (Social Design Sydney 2017)

Articles:

• Erdoğan Öztekin, E. and Gaziulusoy, İ. 2020. ‘Co-positioning design for sustainability transitions, practice theory and transitions theories: towards dialogue and collaboration’, J. Design Research, Vol. 18, Nos. 3/4, pp.196–223.OPEN ACCESS.
• Falay von Flittner, Z., Gaziulusoy, I., Nielsen, S. &  Marttila, S. 2022. Design for Sustainability Transitions: Reflections on Practice. OPEN ACCESS.
• Garduño García, C., & Gaziulusoy, İ. 2021. Designing future experiences of the everyday: Pointers for methodical expansion of sustainability transitions research. Futures, 127, 102702. OPEN ACCESS.
• Gaziulusoy, İ., & Erdoğan Öztekin, E. 2019. Design for Sustainability Transitions: Origins, Attitudes and Future Directions. Sustainability, 11(13). doi:10.3390/su11133601. OPEN ACCESS.
• Irwin, T. 2015. Transition design: A proposal for a new area of design practice, study, and research. Design and Culture, 7(2), 229-246. OPEN ACCESS.
• Irwin, T., Tonkinwise, C., & Kossoff, G. 2022. Transition design: The importance of everyday life and lifestyles as a leverage point for sustainability transitions. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación. Ensayos, (105), 73-106.OPEN ACCESS.

Other materials:

The Transition Design Framework / Transition Design Seminar 2022

Transition Design Special Issue / Kossoff & Irwin 2022

Transition Design Toolbox

Nordic Urban Mobility 2050 Futures Game  / Nordic Innovation

Sustainable Futures Game / Hellon, Creatures-project

Video: Sitra Heräämö: Design as a tool for social change (video starts from 32:50)

Videos by Terry Irwin about transition design

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