Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can
reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels. Since the publication of the …

Resource efficiency in production and technological innovations are inadequate for
considerably reducing the current use of natural resources. Both social innovations and a …

The paper presents a case study of applying crowdsourcing to library deliveries. The trial
was conducted in the city of Jyväskylä in Finland as part of the Resource Wise Communities …

The paper suggests a sustainable material footprint of eight tons, per person, in a year as a
resource cap target for household consumption in Finland. This means an 80%(factor 5) …

The concept Material Input per Service Unit (MIPS) was developed 20 years ago as a
measure for the overall natural resource use of products and services. The material intensity …

Ecological Backpack Ecological Rucksack Economic Exploitation of Children Economic
Growth, Technological Progress, and Employmen Page 1 E Ecological Backpack ▶ Material …

The global economy is using growing amounts of natural resources such as raw materials,
water, and land by making and using goods, services, and infrastructure. Aspirations on …

This paper presents a new household-level methodology for transition towards
sustainability. The methodology includes measuring the resource use of households on a …

The availability of life cycle inventories is one of the biggest challenges for life cycle wide
environmental assessment. There are several life cycle assessment (LCA) databases …

The article assesses the material footprints of households living on a minimum amount of
social benefits in Finland and discusses the consequences in terms of ecological and social …