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Michael Le*enmeier – Senja Laakso – Viivi Toivio Dmat ltd. – Wuppertal Ins@tute – Aalto University – Helsinki University Scien@fic session 3: Lifestyles and educa@on WRF, Davos, 12 th Oct. 2015 Future households: Smaller footprint, be6er life
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Michael Le*enmeier – Senja Laakso – Viivi Toivio D-‐mat ltd. – Wuppertal Ins@tute – Aalto University – Helsinki University
Scien@fic session 3: Lifestyles and educa@on WRF, Davos, 12th Oct. 2015
Future households: Smaller footprint, be6er life
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One of the biggest lifestyle changes we know
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The Sustainable Consump?on Challenge Lifestyle Material Footprint from 40 to 8 Tonnes
11 tonnes
6 tonnes
18 tonnes
1,5 tonnes
3 tonnes
2 tonnes
2015 2050
01/14/2015 Le*enmeier et al. 2014, Eight tonnes of material footprint, www.mdpi.com/2079-‐9276/3/3/488
www.scp-‐centre.org | Slide 3
CURRENT MATERIAL FOOTPRINT OF THE AVERAGE BRAZILIAN
Food & Nutri@on The Home Household goods Mobility Leisure ac@vi@es Other purposes
4.1
2.6
0.7 0.8
2.1
1.0
11.4 ton/cap/a
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Material footprint
= ecological backpack Invisible burden any product carries
Measuring resource use Material Footprint
13/10/2015
§ Abio@c material resources + bio@c material resources + top soil erosion in agri-‐/silviculture
§ Holis@c, though rough indicator
§ Sufficient, input-‐based indicator although not addressing individual environmental problems Schmidt-‐Bleek 1993, Schmidt-‐Bleek 2009, Le*enmeier et al. 2009
Finnish Innova?on Fund (Sitra): Resource-‐wise region model in Jyväskylä Targets for 2050
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Zero CO2 emissions
Zero waste
One planet life
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5 households out of 40 applicants
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Transi?on towards sustainability
7 Schneidewind & Scheck 2012
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Future household project
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1. Material footprint
assessment
2. Household-‐specific roadmaps
4. Up-‐scaling to new city district
3. One month
test of future life
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Results: Smaller footprints, be6er life
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Observa?ons during and a[er the project • Engaged households, ambi@oned experiments, e.g.
– smaller living space, – vegan nutri@on, – less car-‐driving by car-‐sharing, car-‐pooling, home delivery, be*er and more
flexible public transport, …
• Material footprint can drop even fast – Quality of life increased
• Households will not do it alone – Sitra funded simula@on of future services – City implemented results in planning of new district – How to encourage new service providers?
• Lighthouse households keeping up the issue – High interest of media during the project – 1 year ajer : households s@ll ac@ve in blogging, pos@ng – and implemen@ng!
• 8 tonnes concept spreading to other ci@es
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Conclusions
• Lifestyle material footprint as an indicator works well • Significant reduc@ons in lifestyle material footprints by
rela@vely few changes and even in the short term • Rethinking the everyday also increases quality of life • Households con@nued implementa@on ajer the project
– Relevant changes done – Iden@fica@on with project and resource issue is s@ll high
• Households will not do it alone – All services do not yet exist – How to speed up on the supply side? – How to avoid locking into present unsustainable infrastructure? – Growing importance of interac@on between gatekeepers and users
• Way to go in mainstreaming – City of Lah@ star@ng “One tonne less” campaign
Michael Le*enmeier Michael@d-‐mat.fi +358 40 54 12 876
www.d-‐mat.fi www.facebook.com/materialfootprint
www.twi*er.com/le*enmeier
Thank you!
