Community Supported Agriculture

By Carola Strassner, Muenster University of Applied Sciences Questions to guide discussions How can we assess the health and environmental benefits of CSA versus regular diet? What is the unique aspect of the CSA concept, in terms of changing the consumption-production dichotomy? What are the wider aspects of CSA in terms of energy consumption? Food … Read more

Needs, Desires and Sustainable Consumption

By Antonietta Di Giulio, University of Basel Questions to guide discussions How can we identify needs? How to distinguish needs, desires, satisfiers and resources? What happens when this distinction is not made? Can needs claim a universal validity? And to what extent does it make sense to talk about needs of future generations? How does … Read more