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Continue reading →: The LCA paradox
The tool life cycle assessment (LCA) provides valuable insights, but does its popularity also distract from essential questions about production necessity and systemic change? I asked the renowned LCA expert Tomas Ekvall to enlighten me.
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Continue reading →: Next generation sustainability professionals
Samantha and Paula are graduate students at an Industrial Ecology master’s program. Soon they will set out on their career journeys. Who are these next generation sustainability professionals? How do they perceive their role, their opportunities, and meaningful work?
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Continue reading →: Outside-work meaning
Patrick, Anja and Niklas are sustainability professionals with experience from engaging in sustainability activities outside work; from politics, writing books, and activism. What are their motivations? What impact do they feel that they have? And how do they balance it all?
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Continue reading →: Sustainable work structures
Sustainability professionals Louise and David work at a consultancy firm with an unorthodox approach: obsessing over employee relations instead of profitability. How does the approach influence the possibility for sustainability impact and feeling of meaning?
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Continue reading →: The right puzzle
People often mistake my search for meaningful sustainability work as having the goal of ‘most contribution possible’. My goal is to have ‘the right contribution’. I don’t need to be the biggest or most important piece of the puzzle, but I need to be a piece of the right puzzle.
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Continue reading →: 20 voices
How is it like to work as a sustainability professional today? What is perceived as having a sustainability impact and what is not? 20 sustainability professionals were asked to reflect about their current job, their previous career, and all those other jobs that sustainability professionals can have.
