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GOOD PRACTICES

CHANGING LIFESTYLES - SUPPORTING
CHANGES IN LIFESTYLES
Questioning our real needs
Eos Gallup Europe
pour la Commission Européenne Direction Générale Environnement
Flash Eurobaromètre 123 - Perception du développement durable
et préoccupations environnementales des Européens, Mai 2002
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/barometer/rapport_final.pdf
Juliet Schor The
New Politics of Consumption - Why Americans want so much
more than they need
http://www.ktruitt.com/consumption/
Andrew Sharpe&
Lars Osberg, Comparisons of Trends in GDP and Economic
Well-being - the
Impact of Social Capital, OECD directorate for for
Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
http://www1.oecd.org/els/pdfs/EDSCERIDOCA006.pdf
Encouraging the replacement of
products by services
Life-cycle assessment
from the Öko-Institute quoted by the European Textile Services
Association
http://www.etsa-europe.org/homefs.htm
Wuppertal Institute
Digital Europe: virtual dematerialisation and factor X,
March 2003
http://www.digital-eu.org/publications/Default.asp?pubid=32
WILL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES BRING BENEFIT TO THE ENVIRONMENT?
Reisch, L.A.,
The Internet and Sustainable Consumption:
perspectives on a Janus face,
paper submitted to "The Ecological Modernisation of Society",
Conference in Aarhus 14-16 June 2001
http://www.au.dk/~cesamat/Ecolo.Reisch.pdf
Digital Europe
http://www.digital-eu.org
- Summary
report Making the Net work
http://www.digital-eu.org/publications/Default.asp?pubid=44
- Telework and
sustainable development - a case-study with GeSI
http://www.digital-eu.org/publications/default.asp?pubid=40
Oksana Mont
The International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics,
Lund University, Product-service systems, February 2000
http://www.iiiee.lu.se/Publication.nsf/$webAll/29CB26003B7692B4C1256C60004088E8/$FILE/oksana.pdf
http://www.iiiee.lu.se/C1256B88002A83F9/$webAllPers/6E43908B8BF27555C1256C6A00298643?OpenDocument

CHANGING CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR
Introduction: barriers to behaviour
change
European Association of Communication
Agencies, World Federation of Advertisers, United Nations
Environment Programme
Industry as a partner for sustainable
development - Advertising, 2002
http://www.uneptie.org/outreach/wssd/contributions/sector_reports/sectors/advertising/advertising.htm
Danish Environmental
Protection Agency
http://www.mst.dk/homepage/
Promoting official eco-labels
European Commission
- Consumer Guide
info-kit
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ecolabel/marketing/brochures.htm
- EU eco-label
and producing companies that have been awarded the Flower
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ecolabel/consumers/consumers.htm
- Catalogue of EU eco-labelled products
http://www.eco-label.com
International
Energy Agency, Energy labels and standards
http://www.iea.org/public/studies/labels.htm
Energy Star
http://energyefficiency.jrc.cec.eu.int/energystar/

Leading by example: green public
purchasing
European Commission,
Interpretative communication on the Community law applicable
to public procurement and the possibilities for integrating
environmental considerations into public procurement
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/gpp/index.htm
Green Purchasing
Network
http://eco.goo.ne.jp/gpn/files/gpne/
Educating to use efficiently
Compare the electricity
consumption for equivalent bulbs in terms of light
http://www.homeenergy.org/consumerinfo/lighting/
Energiestiftung
Schleswig-Holstein
http://www.energiestiftung.de/
Energy Agencies
Smart.E, the Irish Energy Centre's website
for children
http://www.irish-energy.ie/home/index.asp?language_id=1
Tips for energy efficiency at home
http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=571
Explanation of energy labels
http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=504
Agence de l'Environnement et de la
Maîtrise de l'Energie - French National Energy and Environment
Agency
Consumer guides on energy consumption (in French)
http://www.ademe.fr/particuliers/
Raising awareness on the hidden
energy consumption
UNEP
Facts and Figures: products, consumers and design
Editorial in Industry and Environment,
Vol. 20 n° 1-2 January -June 1997, Paris
http://www.uneptie.org/media/review/vol20no1-2/vol20no1-2.htm
German Federal
Environment Minister
http://www.umwelt-deutschland.de/index_englisch.html
Educating to reducing the use of
cleaning products
Washright campaign
http://www.washright.com

Communication and environment
Planetecologie (French)
http://www.planetecologie.org/Fr_default.html
Communication on education and environment
- The World Conservation Union
http://www.iucn.org/cec/
Consumers
education
The Center for a New American Dream
http://www.newdream.org/aboutus/
Akatu (Spanish) - Responsible consumers
http://www.akatu.net/construa/forum/perguntas.asp?cod_tema=2&publique=0
Norwegian Consumer Council
http://forbrukerportalen.no/Emner/engelsk_fransk
The Environmental Home Guard
http://www.gronnhverdag.no/english.php
European network of consumer educators
http://www.norden.org/nicemail/
Réseau de consommateurs responsables
(French)
http://www.rcr.be/explorer/index.htm
Environmentally motivated consumer behaviour
(article)
http://www.scp.nl/boeken/cahiers/cah127/uk/samenvatting.htm

Environmental education
Our Earth - our Future by young people
of the world
http://www.grida.no/geo2000/pacha/contents.htm
Irish Energy Centre
http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=543
Ecole et nature (French)
http://www.ecole-et-nature.org/accueil.html
Education tools (exhibitions) Agences
de l'énergie et de l'environnement en Poitou-Charentes (French)
http://www.apcede.com/outil/exposition.asp
Maison de la Nature et de l'Environnement
- Lille (French)
http://mnelille.free.fr/
Education material on Ecological Footprint
(Dutch) - Mondiale Voetafdruck
http://www.voetenbank.nl/materiaal.htm#dka
Web exhibition Ourplan-it.com
http://www.cat.org.uk/ourplan-it/
Green procurement
Guide for green procurement - Belgian State Secretary for
energy and sustainable development
(French / Dutch)
http://www.gidsvoorduurzameaankopen.be/
About resources
Biodiversity is life! IUCN
http://www.iucn.org/bil/whatis.html

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