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Special issue on Linking Local Consumption and Global Impacts

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Reid Lifset from Yale University shared the following special issue with us that links clocal consumption to global impacts: Dear SCORAI-ites In a new special issue, “Linking Local Consumption and Global Impacts,” Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology examines the virtual shrinking of distances between places — arising because of trade, telecommunication and travel — and … Read more

Is sustainable consumption compatible with increasing the income among the poor and the middle class?

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I recently attended a workshop convened by the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, USDN, on the topic of sustainable consumption. One of the issues that repeatedly came up was how to address income inequality while also promoting sustainable consumption. To pursue either of these two big questions is a big undertaking already, but the two together … Read more