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Designing regeneration to enhance biodiversity
Regenerative development aims to increase the vitality and viability of social-ecological systems. However, such change does not automatically translate into higher biodiversity. A new BIODIFUL study bridges biodiversity and...
Going with a Plan, Returning with Better Questions: What Ghana’s Mining Communities Taught me about the Tensions between Sustaining Livelihoods and Conserving Biodiversity
I still remember with excitement, how I embarked on a five+ months’ fieldwork journey to Ghana during last year’s autumn. That evening of October 3rd as I stepped off the...
What if…
Trump, Greenland, Ukraine, Putin, China, Iran, Venezuela… I could continue the list indefinitely, but you get the picture. The world has gone mad. Or maybe the news are even...
Beyond Awareness: Unresolved Puzzles in Biodiversity Finance
Over the past two decades, sustainability has become one of the central themes in finance. Sustainable finance has gained momentum in both practice and public policy, aiming to guide...
What Does Nature-positive Mean in Business?
Our work at BIODIFUL on biodiversity-respectful leadership is closely connected to the wider conversation on becoming nature-positive. This blog takes a closer look at what nature-positive means and how...
Agroforestry vs. conventional coffee production: what a recent LCA study says about biodiversity impacts
Introduction Food systems are the biggest single contributor to the accelerating biodiversity crisis. In Finnish diet coffee has been found to be one of the products causing the most...
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...
