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Sustainability Discussions: From Recycling to Reuse
Date: Tuesday 29 Mar 2022 This digital informal event featured two short presentations to facilitate discussion about recycling and reuse. First, Dina placed recycling in a historical context and brought up current affairs questions. She also brought in the concepts of circular economy and reuse. Second, Tora shared some insights from working as a waste saver at a waste sorting plant on the Westcoast of Norway. |
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EU Sustainable Finance Learning Group: EU Taxonomy Deep-Dive
Date: Tuesday 29 Feb 2022 Interested in the EU Sustainable Finance regulations but not sure where to start? Our EU Sustainable Finance Learning Group meeting went through the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. |
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Sustainability Discussion: How to design your sustainability projects and ideas to transform
Date: Tuesday 25 Jan 2022 This event was a hands-on Sustainability Discussion exploring how the Three Spheres of Transformation - a framework for thinking about and activating transformations - might apply to sustainability work. This session was led by S-CONNECT team member Leonie Goodwin, who has worked as a Advisor/Business Manager at cCHANGE for over 5 years. |
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Sustainability Discussions - Alternative economic concepts for a thriving world
Date: Tuesday, 16 November 2021 Marie Storli (Leader of Rethinking Economics Norway) spoke about sustainability from an economic point of view. Marie argues that the mainstream economic conception is not complementary to sustainability and introduced us to a different way of economic thinking. |
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Business Ecosystems for Sustainability
Date: 9 October, 2021 Can business ecosystems evolve to tackle societal and climate issues? Who owns the solutions that arise out of business ecosystems? We heard from Abhimanyu Manimaran, Project Manager at UN Global Compact Norway, on how business ecosystems work and how they can support progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. |
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What does it mean to be a Sustainability Consultant?
Date: 21 September, 2021 What does it look like to be a sustainability consultant? What do they do? How do you become one? And what do you learn from it? Anne-Julie Jøssang will shared her experience being a consultant at KPMG Pure Sustainability. |
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Let's talk about organizing sustainable businesses!
Date: 31 May, 2021 How can we organize businesses for sustainability? Is the way we currently structure and run organisations a barrier to innovation and achieving our sustainability goals? Do we need to organize businesses differently? Or maybe even create new organizational forms? We welcomed Dina Hestad, who has just completed her PhD at Oxford University investigating the key success factors of sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations (i.e., social enterprises or cooperatives) and how they contribute to organizing sustainability transformations in urban environments. In this interactive discussion we explored what businesses can learn from successful sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations i.e., enterprises that are managing to balance profit and achieve positive environmental and social outcomes. |
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Sustainable Food
Date: 3rd May, 2021
Food production is responsible for 26% of global greenhouse gas emission. Agriculture causes 78% of global ocean and freshwater pollution with nutrient-rich pollution such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Half of the earth’s habitable land is used for agriculture, and more is needed as the population is growing. Food is therefore at the center of tackling climate change.
Date: 3rd May, 2021
Food production is responsible for 26% of global greenhouse gas emission. Agriculture causes 78% of global ocean and freshwater pollution with nutrient-rich pollution such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Half of the earth’s habitable land is used for agriculture, and more is needed as the population is growing. Food is therefore at the center of tackling climate change.
Biomimicry & Circular Economy
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Sustainability Discussions: Modern Slavery
Date: 8 March, 2021 What does modern slavery look like? Which industries are most vulnerable and what are the threats for businesses by allowing it to continue? Importantly, what can businesses do about it, and what are the opportunities for businesses that support more ethical supply chains? Sondre Høyseter from Hope for Justice led an interactive discussion on modern slavery, business, and solutions. |
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Sustainability Discussions: What is the state of sustainability in Norway?
Date: 8 February, 2021 Time: 19:00-20:30 Where: Zoom What is the state of sustainability in Norway? S-CONNECT held an interactive discussion with S-HUB's Head of community and partnerships, Dragana Kulovic. We used S-HUB's State of Sustainability in Norway report as a baseline to discuss the trends and key topics in Norway, and heard what other S-CONNECT participants are working on in their fields. |
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Virtual Meetup: Circular Christmas
Date: 18 December, 2020 Time: 18:00-19:30 Where: Zoom What about circular Christmas? Let's talk about it. S-CONNECT held a virtual meeting with open discussions on how we can introduce sustainable habits into our Christmas mindset. We talked about different traditions from the perspective of a circular economy. |
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Sustainability Discussions: Building bridges for Cross-Sector Collaboration
Date: 23 November, 2020 Time: 18:00-19:30 Where: Zoom How can we build bridges for cross-sector collaboration when it comes to sustainability? After working for many years in the oil-industry, Veslemøy Klavenes-Berge pivoted towards working full-time with Sustainability. She shared some of her experiences and facilitated interactive discussions regarding this cross-sector collaboration. |
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S-CONNECT Virtual Meet-Up
Date: 10 November, 2020 Time: 18:00-19:30 Where: Zoom S-CONNECT held an informal and personal networking meeting to get to know the members in the S-CONNECT community. |
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First Talk: CEMAsys shares knowledge
Date: 16 September, 2020 Time: 18:25 - 19:30 Where: Zoom CEMAsys will joined S-CONNECT to share knowledge on the sustainability development in the Nordic region. The talk covered concrete examples of how operations can help customers make a positive impact. |
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