Electric cars are the sustainability trojan horse

Frontiers: A joint project of SCORAI and Hot or Cool It is misleading for any future mobility advocate to assume that we can adopt widescale electric vehicles in future without radically and rapidly changing our entire approach to transportation and provisioning...

Frontiers-a joint project of SCORAI and Hot or Cool

This blog is a part of the Frontier Series, a collaboration between SCORAI and the Hot or Cool Institute that brings you lessons learned, personal experiences and insights from the cutting edge of climate and sustainability research and practice. Interview with Lewis...

Can we take Fun seriously in sustainable consumption?

The pursuit of entertainment, the experiences of pleasure and fun, is a major “driver” of climate change, yet it is relatively unexplored. Despite the salience of pleasure and fun in daily life, in almost every aspect of consumption, the subject is widely ignored in...

Pandemics and War as Global Gamechangers

Sir Winston Churchill is credited with first saying, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The  Covid pandemic greatly accelerated the social changes brought about by digitalization of work, commerce and communications. Many of those are most likely to persist after...