Library
A collection of information from variety of sources to support designers and design businesses in sustainability transition.
Interest organisations’ sustainability pages
Design Council: Design for Planet Knowledge Hub
Design Forum Finland: Towards circular economy through design
Finnish Textile and Fashion: Circular Economy in the Finnish Textile Business
The Chemical Industry Federation of Finland: Nature-positive and Carbon-Neutral Chemistry
Technology Finland: Environment and Sustainability
Confederation of Finnish Affairs: Current affairs
Sustainability science
Stockholm Resilience Center: Planetary boundaries This site introduces the concept of planetary boundaries framework, the evolution of the framework and latest update to it.
Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science HELSUS: Sustainability transformations are fundamental changes in societies paving their way towards sustainable well-being of nature and humans. To achieve these sustainability transformations, new approaches and methodologies must be developed in the field of sustainability science. This is one focus of the research and teaching at HELSUS. This site provides information and themes that HELSUS focuses.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: IPCC prepares comprehensive Assessment Reports about the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for reducing the rate at which climate change is taking place. It also produces Special Reports on topics agreed to by its member governments, as well as Methodology Reports that provide guidelines for the preparation of greenhouse gas inventories.
Intergovernmental Science -Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services: IPBES is an independent intergovernmental body established by UN States to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development.
Alternatives to linear economy models
Sitra (The Finnish Innovation Fund): Kiertotalous site provides Sitra’s latest news and articles of cicular economy.
Sitra: Circular Solutions for Nature. Handbook for Businesses.
Circle Economy Foundation is focused on empowering decision-makers from the public and private sectors to develop and implement circular economy strategies and business models. Circle Economy Foundation publishes annually Circularity Gap report.
Doughnut Economics Action Lab: DEAL (doughnuteconomics.org) The Doughnut offers a vision of what it means for humanity to thrive in the 21st century – and Doughnut Economics explores the mindset and ways of thinking needed to get us there.
Degrowth: Degrowth is an idea that critiques the global capitalist system which pursues growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. The degrowth movement of activists and researchers advocates for societies that prioritize social and ecological well-being instead of corporate profits, over-production and excess consumption. This site provides information and movement to pursue degrowth in practice.
Design and circular economy
Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation: Circular Design. Information, resources, tools, case examples, to help start learning circular design and practicing it.
Design School Kolding: Sustainable design cards. The purpose of this webpage is to unravel ways to work with sustainability in product design.
Design Council: Design for Planet Knowledge Hub. An ongoing collecting of tools, frameworks and resources available to designers to help them address the climate emergency.
EcoDesign Circle: The Sustainability Guide provides inspiration and knowledge by gathering information, methods and good examples of how to use design to achieve a sustainable and circular business as well as social development. Published in a project funded by EU.
laWS, regulations and standards
The EU’s sustainability reporting directive requires large companies and listed companies to publish regular reports on the social and environmental risks they face and how their operations affect people and the environment.
Familiarize yourself with the European Union directive: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
Laws, regulations and standards
programs & strategies
The UN’s sustainable development target program Agenda 2030 aims to eliminate extreme poverty and advance sustainable development, which takes the environment, economy and people into equal consideration.
There are a total of 17 UN sustainable development goals and 169 sub-goals.
Programs and strategies
Services and tools
Learn & get inspired
Podcasts
Webinars
Courses
Planetary design
The Biomimcry Institute
- The Biomimicry Institute empowers people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Goal is for biomimicry to become a natural part of the design process. Includes (among other things) a free, online database of biological solutions that could provide insight into solving design challenges.
Vincit
- Planet Centric Design toolkit is for anyone who wants to have sustainability built in to their projects. Includes canvases that help to facilitate and work in teams around complex topics of sustainability
UX Academy
Vaexperience
Design fields
Product design
Built environment
Service design
Digital design