22.11.2023
Desperation for Refrigeration

Seen as a necessity, the fridge is turning into a luxury item. Has it become a guilty environmental consumer trap?

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20.01.2020
EuropaCity: a “Hyper-place” for a Globalised Europe?

This gargantuan project has aroused public enthusiasm and anger in equal measure, and continues to hold lessons for understanding people’s relationships with cities.

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13.03.2019
What to Wear? Why Fast Fashion Is Costing the Earth

A report from Finland on textiles and the clothing industry’s future in a circular economy.

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01.03.2012
Transitioning to a Postconsumerist Future

The economic crisis that most of the western economies are facing is digging a breach in our consumer’s narratives. Signs of transition to a new kind of society are numerous in the USA as in Europe and Japan. Despite the claims of prominent development economists, a high mass-consumption society is not the endpoint of history. Could it be that a postconsumerist era is already creeping on us?

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