Avainsana: sustainability

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Sustainability – a way of marketing or the responsibility of companies and organizations?

Centria campus in Kokkola.

Maria Hofman-Bergholm

Centria campus in Kokkola.

The public use of the term sustainability has transformed the term into a kind of buzzword that is used in an increasingly diverse range of contexts. It is quite common that large enterprises use the term sustainable or sustainability when describing the company’s core values. But does the enterprise really focus on sustainability throughout the entire production or service chain or is it mainly used for marketing purposes? However, in a way it is easier to grasp that companies can have either a good or a bad impact on sustainability, but what about other kind of organizations like universities? How can they contribute to sustainability?

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The 17 sustainable development goals and sustainability – something we all together need to work towards

Maria Hofman-Bergholm

Sustainability and sustainable development are commonly used terms that we all should know and understand the meaning of, but is that a fact or have they just become buzzwords that people don’t really know what they mean as concepts? What was the state of sustainability when the progress of the 17 SDGs was last measured, and what is sustainability?

Flowers on a field
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RECIRCULATE, a second life for the electric vehicle batteries

Tomi Pitkäaho
Athith Sagar
Tero Kaarlela

The rapid growth in battery demand raises questions about sustainability and the limited amount of rare materials. While recycling the batteries to raw materials enables the preservation of rare raw materials, recycling consumes time and energy, reducing the value of recycled batteries. Repurposing and reusing for second-life applications is resource-wise compared to recycling.

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Circular design as a key step in achieving sustainability

Mira Valkjärvi
Weimu You
Egidija Rainosalo

RDI-Specialist Mira Valkjärvi at the conference venue Cultural Conference Center of Heraklion Crete, holding the digital guide of the DeCiDe project. The picture includes logos of the funders of the DeCiDe project. Photo: Weimu You.

The 4th Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability, held in Heraklion, Greece from June 19th to 21st, brought together researchers and scholars from diverse fields, all dedicated to exploring topics related to circular economy and sustainability. Centria’s staff from both RDI and business education took part in the conference.  

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What is a sustainable business?

Maria Hofman-Bergholm
Sara Kåll-Fröjdö
Athith Sagar

During the last three years we have, within different development projects at Centria University of Applied Sciences, spent time interviewing different types of entrepreneurs. This article will briefly touch upon sustainability and what a sustainable business is, and also provide the reader with some of the good advices the entrepreneurs have shared with us on starting up a new business. But first let’s start with a brief review on what sustainability is and what a sustainable business could be.

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A transition to a circular economy could stop the global loss of biodiversity – food and agriculture are set in key positions

Maria Hofman-Bergholm
Athith Sagar
Sara Kåll-Fröjdö

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate everywhere in the world and Finland is no exception. The situation is serious because the health, economy and well-being of all mankind is dependent on nature (Forslund et al. 2022). The loss of biodiversity is not yet as well-known crisis as the climate change.

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