Backcasting is a method that starts with a desired future outcome and works backwards to determine the steps needed to achieve it. It helps bridge the gap between the present and the desired future, enabling individuals and organizations to develop strategies for achieving their goals.
Local cafes, cities, and students joined the NextGen Consortium's collaborative efforts to advance reusable, recyclable, and compostable cup solutions in pilots across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Societies' harmful production and consumption patterns impact the environment and well-being. The EU-funded INHERIT project aims to promote sustainable, healthier living in areas like housing, transportation, and consumption. It seeks a 'triple-win' of better health, reduced environmental impact, and improved social equity by influencing policies for healthier and more sustainable societies. The project identifies connections between behaviors, sustainability, health, and fairness. Sedentary jobs, processed foods, stress, and social isolation affect health, contributing to issues like heart disease and mental health problems. The project highlights how lifestyle choices in transport, energy, and diet impact both local and global health and the environment.
Virtual business simulators are innovative tools in business higher education. Their use, as a part of game-based learning, is attracting increasing interest, as this method allows us to understand interactions between business decisions and their results. In this paper, we present our case study of an IT-based business simulator, which includes aspects of sustainability, and the initial experience of a group of test students participating in the business game.
GreenComp is a reference framework for sustainability competencies. It provides a common ground to learners and guidance to educators, advancing a consensual definition of what sustainability as a competence entails. It responds to the growing need for people to improve and develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to live, work and act in a sustainable manner. It is designed to support education and training programmes for lifelong learning. It is written for all learners, irrespective of their age and their education level and in any learning setting – formal, non-formal and informal. Sustainability competencies can help learners become systemic and critical thinkers, as well as develop agency, and form a knowledge basis for everyone who cares about our planet’s present and future state.
The video faces the theme of well-being in urban contexts passing through different dimensions linked: to social equity, sustainability, community resilience, and community economic development.
The paper faces socio-ecological crises and fails to meet the basic needs of everyone in society whilst living within planetary boundaries. These interconnected problems are complex and require urgent transdisciplinary efforts informed by theories of change.
This research demonstrates entrepreneurial processes around sustainable business behaviours by focusing on community engagement. It opens a window into the exploration of cyber entrepreneurship in the food industry.
