SCORAI
Mission
SCORAI is a knowledge network of professionals working at the interface of material consumption, human well-being, and technological and cultural change. Read more…
Affiliates & Partners
One of SCORAI’s main goals is to create an expanding global network of sustainable consumption researchers and practitioners. Read more…
e-Newsletter
The SCORAI Newsletter appears each month on the first day. SCORAI invites its members to post items for the SCORAI newsletter about 1 week before the end of each month. Read more…
Listserv
SCORAI maintains a an active mailing list of more than 700 users. Subscribe to the SCORAI mailing list (listserv) and benefit from the network. Subscribe…
Eugene Memorandum
SCORAI members played an active role in defining the role of cities in advancing sustainable consumption. Read more…
Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
SCORAI members have been actively pursuing a Routledge book series on the topic of sustainable consumption. Read more…
SCORAI Library
We support the open science movement and share our work in our SCORAI library. Search library…
About
SCORAI provides a forum for scholars and practitioners striving to understand the drivers of the consumerist economy in affluent technological societies; to formulate and analyze options for post-consumerist lifestyles, social institutions, and economic systems; and to provide the knowledge for emergent grassroots innovations, social movements, and public policies.
SCORAI Groups
SCORAI China
SCORAI Europe
SCORAI Israel
Colloqium
The Colloquium series is funded by the Rasmussen Foundation
Latest news
Assistant Professor in Environmental/Energy Justice, Tenure-Track Department of Social Sciences Michigan Technological University
Shared by Chelsea Schelly on our mailing list. The Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University invites applications for an Assistant Professor to join an interdisciplinary social sciences faculty. We seek a scholar specialising in environmental and/or energy justice. Candidates with strengths in policy analysis and/or spatial methodologies are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates[…]
Call for Papers: American Association of Geographers, 5 – 10 April, 2017, Boston (Massachusetts)
Shared by Damian White on our mailing list. Reconstructing Urban Natures?: Building Engagements between Green Urbanism, the Resilient City, and Urban Political Ecology. Hannah Teicher, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT & Damian White, History, Philosophy and Social Science, RISD. At first glance, the on-going debates about possible forms of an ecological urbanism in architecture[…]
Two-year doctoral student position in Design for sustainability at Aalto University, Helsinki
Shared by Jalas Mikko and Maurie Cohen on our mailing list. Doctoral student position in Design for sustainability Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University has six schools with nearly[…]
Call for Contributions: Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy, 27-29 June 2017, Brighton, UK
Shared by Philip Vergragt on our mailing list. The Global Research Forum invites session and paper proposals for its third international conference on the theme of “Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy,” hosted by the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex. The conference will[…]