The Connection Between Minimalism and Sustainability

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Integration The complex challenges our cities are facing today are all interconnected. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a holistic framework for integrating social, environmental, and economic targets for systemic change. Through this work, we aim to contribute to a shared language among different sectors (public, private, not-for-profit) and align all levels of policies from local to federal to global. This initiative will provide relevant information for assessing collaborations, gaps, duplications, and needs across key decision-makers, agents of change, funders and stakeholders in general.   Tracking Local SDG Indicators Co-creating a city-based indicator set View full report here.   Building a Network Co-host of the SDG leadership program 2020. References (under construction)

Abstract Understanding how a circular economy (CE) can reduce environmental pressures from economic activities is crucial for policy and practice. Science provides a range of indicators to monitor and assess CE activities. However, common CE activities, such as recycling and eco‐design, are contested in terms of their contribution to environmental sustainability. This article assesses whether and to what extent current approaches to assess CE activities sufficiently capture environmental pressures to monitor progress toward environmental sustainability. Based on a material flow perspective, we show that most indicators do not capture environmental pressures related to the CE activities they address. Many focus on a single CE activity or process, which does not necessarily contribute to increased environmental sustainability overall. Based on these results, we suggest complementing CE management indicators with indicators capturing basic environmental pressures related to the respective CE activity. Given the conceptual linkage between CE activities, resource extraction, and waste flows, we suggest that a resource‐based footprint approach accounting for major environmental inputs and outputs is necessary—while not sufficient—to assess the environmental sustainability of CE activities. As footprint approaches can be used across scales, they could aid the challenging process of developing indicators for monitoring progress toward an environmentally…

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