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Partnership for Education and research about Responsible Living Division of Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption Beyond Consumption Pathways to Responsible Living 2nd PERL International Conference Technische Universität Berlin 19-20 March 2012 Conference Proceedings Vera Fricke, Ulf Schrader, Victoria W. Thoresen (eds.) For more see www.perlprojects.org Following the six international conferences by the Editorial Comments These are the proceedings of the second international PERL Conference, held in March 2012 in Berlin, Germany, under the title “Beyond Consumption – Pathways to Responsible Living”. The proceedings include some of the key note speeches and all working papers that were submitted prior to the conference. Please note that the presentations included here have not been thoroughly reviewed and revised by the editors in terms of structural clarity and language proficiency. The editors would like to express their appreciation to everyone involved in the preparation and implementation process of the second international PERL confer- ence. A special thank you goes to all reviewers for their great effort in reading and commenting on the submitted abstracts. Each submitted abstract was reviewed by two experts. Please find below the reviewers listed in alphabetical order. Belz, Frank-Martin – Technische Universität München, Germany Codita, Roxana – Technische Universität München, Germany Dahl, Arthur – International Environment Forum, Switzerland Doyle, Declan – Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland Eigenstetter, Monika – Universität Jena, Germany Fischer, Daniel – Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany Harrach, Christoph – Technische Universität Berlin / Karma Konsum, Germany Klein, Jørgen – Hedmark University College, Norway McGregor, Sue – Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada Muster, Viola – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany O’Donoghue, Miriam – CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit, Ireland Penning, Isabelle – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Petruschke, Thomas – Volkswagen AG, Germany Schäfer, Martina – Technische Universität, Germany Schmidt, Imke - Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany Schmidt-Köhnlein, Kristina – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Schreurs, Jeanine – Maastricht University, Netherlands Steffens, Heiko – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Stø, Eivind – SIFO National Institute for Consumer Research, Norway Thøgersen, John – Aarhus University, Denmark Turkki, Kaija – University of Helsinki, Finland Vergragt, Philip J. – Clark University, Worcester / Tellus Institute, Boston, USA Wolf, Stefan – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany A special thank you goes to Laura Holzäpfel and Julia Propp, both Technische Universität Berlin, who supported the PERL conference team within the reviewing process and with the compilation of the conference proceedings. Berlin/Hamar, May 2012 Vera Fricke, Ulf Schrader, Victoria W. Thoresen Vera Fricke, Ulf Schrader, Victoria W. Thoresen (Eds.) Beyond Consumption Pathways to Responsible Living 2nd International PERL Conference Berlin, Germany, March 19-20, 2012 Conference Proceedings Editors Vera Fricke1, Ulf Schrader2, Victoria W. Thoresen3 1, 2 Technische Universität Berlin Division of Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption Franklinstraße 28/29 10587 Berlin, Germany Contact: [email protected] 3 Hedmark University College, Hamar, Norway The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living (PERL) pro- ject has been carried out with the support of the European Community in the framework of the Erasmus Programme. The content of this project does not neces- sarily reflect the position of the European Community, nor does it involve any re- sponsibility on the part of the European Community. Further information on PERL can be found here: http://www.perlprojects.org One must not copy the report or photographs in contradiction with the Copyright Act or in contradiction with the agreement entered into with KOPINOR, organiza- tions for licenses to copyright. All rights reserved. ISBN-number 978-82-7671-867-6 Content i Content I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1! Beyond Consumption ............................................................................................. 2! Ulf Schrader, Vera Fricke! Welcome speech of the vicepresident of Technische Universität Berlin ............ 6! Gabriele Wendorf! Approaches to foster responsible living ................................................................ 8! Jochen Flasbarth! Concern, compassion and commitment Keys to responsible living ................. 17! Victoria W. Thoresen! II. FOUNDATIONS & CONCEPTS OF RESPONSIBLE LIVING ............... 22! (Re)Designing governance for social change ...................................................... 23! François Jégou, Sabine François, Sandrine Fournis, Catherine Rousseau! Alternatives to the consumer society .................................................................. 45! Arthur Lyon Dahl! Big points of sustainable consumption and lifestyle orientation: How do they fit together? ..................................................................................... 54! Michael Bilharz, Lisa Cerny! Key competencies for sustainable consumption ................................................ 65! Matthias Barth, Daniel Fischer! The effect of culture on sustainable behaviour in a design context ................. 80! Jak Spencer, Debra Lilley! The role of ICT and social media in the process of transition to responsible and sustainable living .................................................................. 98! Irina Liokumovica! ii Content III. EXAMPLES & PRACTICAL APPROACHES FOR RESPONSIBLE LIVING ......................................................................... 108! The European Union LIFE Program: 20 years contribution to sustainable consumption ......................................................... 109! Eveline Durieux! Building inter-community development projects from school based initiatives ....................................................................................... 128! Ruairi Doyle, Declan'Doyle! Study circles as tools for learning democracy, active citizenship and critical thinking ........................................................................................... 145! Sturla Bjerkaker! Consuming behaviour towards the "green" products during the economic crisis ................................................................................. 155! Helen Theodoropoulou, Maria Zavali! Empowering teenager consumers through active research to adopt a more responsible way of consumption ............................ 167! Anja Christanell, Michaela Leitner! Challenges in sustainable clothing consumption ............................................. 177! Kirsi Niinimäki! Corporate social responsibility in the Czech Republic ................................... 189! Petr Bris, H. Brisova! User-integrated innovation: Sustainable LivingLabs Research and development of sustainable products and services through user-driven innovation .............. 203! Christa Liedtke, Carolin Baedeker, Justus von Geibler, Marco Hasselkuß! Planning for sustainability – the case of Brøset ............................................... 219! Stig Larssæther! IV. LEARNING & EDUCATION FOR RESPONSIBLE LIVING .............. 238! Moving beyond unlearning unsustainable consumption ................................ 239! Daniel Fischer! Content iii Efficiency indicators in education for responsible consumption: Which should we choose? .................................................................................. 253! Vincent Sennes, Sandrine Gombert-Courvoisier, Francis Ribeyre! Working and learning in the world of cradle-to-cradle (C2C) ....................... 269! Peter van der Baan! Evaluating learning performance in education for sustainable development (ESD) ................................................. 281! Paul Ofei-Manu! Augmenting responsible living curricula with a transdisciplinary orientation .......................................................................... 301! Sue L. T. McGregor! Can students learn energy saving from energy efficient school buildings? .. 312! Annette Roser, Edelgard Gruber! Evaluating the outcomes of the seminars on active methods in education for sustainable development and responsible living ...................... 322! Gregor Torkar, Miriam O’Donoghue, Sjöfn Guðmundsdóttir! Business school students and sustainability: Attitudes and behaviours of students signed up to a sustainability specialty as compared to their peers ................ 336! Jessica Aschemann-Witzel, Alice Grønhøj, Arne Christensen! Coherence for responsible living ....................................................................... 347! Konstantin von Normann! Animal welfare education contributes to responsible living ........................... 358! Roy Kareem! Water responsible life and education ................................................................ 371! Nieves Alvarez Martin! I. INTRODUCTION 2 Beyond Consumption Ulf Schrader, Vera Fricke Technische Universität Berlin — Germany On the last evening of the First International PERL Conference about “Enabling Responsible Living” in Istanbul 2011, we had a creative session about the best title for the upcoming PERL conference in Berlin 2012. Inspired by two successful con- ference days and the open minded atmosphere of the farewell session, we came