Category Archives: News
SERI’s ERDgespräche Side-Event: City Walk “Green Vienna”
Together with our partner Mutmacherei, SERI will organise a city walk in Vienna on the occasion of this year’s ERDgespräche. The city walk will be held in German; find more information here [...].
SERI @ Ute Bock-Cup 2012
SERI will participate at the charitable Ute Bock Cup on 3 June 2012. The Ute Bock Cup is a voluntarily organized and realized football charity event in support of the association “Flüchtlingsprojekt Ute Bock” (refugee project Ute Bock). The main aim of the event is to collect money for the association and to draw attention [...]
Conference: Region is future – open thinking spaces for new entrepreneurship. 11-13 june, Stift Ossiach, Carinthia
From 11-13 june, the IFZ (Institut für Zukunftskompetenz) congress on “regions as area for the development of new economic and life-concepts”. Well-known experts from different areas will dedicate themselves to the topic “region is future – cooperation instead of competition”. SERI is involved too: Fritz Hinterberger [...] will give a keynote speech on “challenges and perspectives
Report on resource efficiency indicators and targets for the EU
In a new report, BIO Intelligence Service, the Institute of Social Ecology and SERI present a basket of resource use indicators and corresponding targets for the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative on Resource Efficiency. The researchers suggest a set of consumption and production based indicators that covers both, the environmental pressures and impacts from material, energy, [...]
Project BENE (citizen action for sustainable energy) completed
In the beginning of april, a workshop in the context of the project BENE [...] took place in the Eco-Region Kaindorf as the final project activity.
The project BENE (Citizen action for sustainable energy) consists of three parts: First, it assessed the potential of active citizen engagement in energy issues as a contribution to more energy-aware
RESPONDER (Sustainable Consumption and Growth Debates): Upcoming events
The overall aim of the RESPONDER project is to promote sustainable consumption by exploring novel ways of knowledge brokerage that help to improve the management of potential political, social and economic contradictions with economic growth. RESPONDER links four communities: science, policy, pro-growth and beyond growth. The well-established method of “participatory system mapping” is used to [...]
New paper on Material Flow Accounting
Just recently a new paper on the state of the art of Material Flow Accounting (MFA) was published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology [...]. The paper encompasses the expertise of the main scientists working in the field of MFA and sets a standard regarding methodology, indicators and quality of data sources. As such, the
Closing the eco-innovation gap: The Eco-Innovation Observatory publishes its new annual report
The second annual report produced by the Eco-Innovation Observatory has recently been published. The report “Closing the eco-innovation gap” looks particularly at evidence of the economic benefits from eco-innovations and argues that eco-innovation in European companies is an opportunity for strategic investment rather than a cost factor. [more]
