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Reflections from SfS 2025: Are we taking enough action?
Last week, the BIODIFUL research team was well-represented at Finland’s biggest sustainability research event, Science for Sustainability 2025. The three-day conference, from September 30th to October 2nd in Helsinki,...
The Ultimate Parallel Universe (or the Fable of Economics)
I’m a big fan of science fiction and fantasy. One of the frequently used worldbuilding methods is the introduction of a parallel reality. From the wardrobe leading to Narnia...
We quantified the biodiversity impacts of the BIODIFUL consortium
Introduction Biodiversity loss is one of our time’s most urgent environmental crises. Companies and organizations have a large responsibility in this ongoing crisis both as a contributor as well...
ISEE-Degrowth 2025 conference highlights & #ISEEbyLand
That’s a wrap! Hanna Oksanen and Lumi Aalto-Setälä from the BIODIFUL consortium completed their journey by ferry and train from Turku, Finland to Oslo, Norway to attend the ISEE-Degrowth...
The Biodiful Leadership Forum brought biodiversity to the core of leadership
The Biodiful Leadership Forum brought together experts, researchers, and decision-makers on May 22, 2025, to explore nature-respecting leadership from a variety of perspectives. The event featured a wide range of...
Collapsology
In my last blog I wrote about a book that introduced me to the concept of collapsology. While the label is novel, the phenomenon it describes had already been lurking somewhere...
Are we already living the end times?
Reflections on Jem Bendell: Breaking Together A few years ago, I came across an article that had become widely known despite never having been published in an academic journal. The...
Does anyone ever change (their mind)?
Have you ever had a spouse who drinks too much? Have you nagged at them, left leaflets that highlight the health issues related to drinking, guarded their shopping trips,...
Global biodiversity impacts of meat consumption in Finland
Recent research on biodiversity impacts of food consumed in Finland conducted by Kyttä et al. (2023) focusing on land use and land-use change showed that chicken had a larger...
Developing biodiversity-respectful tourism in Finland
The relationship between tourism and biodiversity is multifaceted. Firstly, tourism depends directly on biodiversity. This argument concerns nature-based tourism and special interest tourism, such as safaris, whale watching and...
Nature Positive Business Models?
Firms are the most effective instruments of alchemy humans have ever envisaged: they pool together a variety of resources and turn them into consumables, livelihoods and profit. The aim...
The changing world of agricultural production – The development of cell-cultured food
Today’s agricultural production has an enormous impact on our planet; about one third of global greenhouse gas emissions are linked to our food system, about half of the planet’s...
