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Consumerism at its peak: sharing instead of owning

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By Halina Brown When ZipCar was founded in 2000 I was attracted to the idea of replacing ownership with service as a paths toward sustainability: fewer cars to manufacture and fewer parking spaces to create. Since then, sharing instead of owning has skyrocketed, with Airbnb leading the pack. But it is clear to me that … Read more

New Issue of the Sustainable Consumption Transition Series

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[box title=”Download & Citation”]Sahakian, M and S. Lorek (Ed.) (2019). Consumption corridors: exploring concepts and implications. SCORAI Europe Workshop Abstracts, April 16-18, 2019, Geneva, Switzerland,. Sustainable Consumption Transitions Series, Issue 7.[/box] On April 16-18 2019, a workshop on “Consumption Corridors: Exploring Concepts and Implications” was hosted at the University of Geneva under the banner of … Read more