Economic performance of a country is generally being measured through GDP (Gross Domestic Product), a variable that has also become the de facto universal metric for "standards of living". However, GDP does not properly account for social and environmental costs and benefits. It is also...

Das Wuppertal Institut und Freundinnen und Freunde von Manfred Linz veranstalteten im März 2002 ein Symposium zu den Aussichten von Nachhaltigkeit aus Anlass seines 75. Geburtstags. "Wie kann geschehen, was geschehen muss?" - also: Wie lernen Gesellschaften? Was steht einem Wandel zur...

This compendium "Resource Productivity in 7 Steps" is intended to give practical advice to designers, engineers, distributors, banks, lawmakers and others how to increase the resource productivity of goods and services (dematerialisation). The eco-innovative (re-)design of products begins with...

The inefficient resource use at a time of growing demand is leading to increasing environmental pressure and resources scarcity that will affect Europe and other parts of the world over the next years and decades. Prices for global commodities like oil, raw materials and wheat have been...