The sustainable lifestyles accelerator: opportunities for fostering sustainability transition on municipal level
Lettenmeier, Michael; Masseck, Torsten; Toivio, Viivi
The paper describes and analyzes the cooperation of the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator with Finnish and Spanish municipalities. The Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator is a three-year program for upscaling sustainable lifestyles in Finland, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Mexico and India. It is based on the four steps of the transition cycle comprising problem analysis, vision development, experimenting and up-scaling. In the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator problem analysis means the calculation of the lifestyle carbon and material footprints of the participating households, vision development the co-creation of individual roadmaps towards 1.5-degree lifestyles by 2030 for each participating household, and experimenting a one-month phase where each participating household tries out several measures out of their roadmap. Up-scaling happens by extending the number of participating households per country from 5-10 in 2018 to 500 in 2019 and 10,000 in 2020. In addition, up-scaling means increasing the number of municipalities cooperating with the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator.
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