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Project start: 1 January 2011
Project end: 31 December 2012
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My sustainable future – SPREAD involves citizens in four countries to make sustainable lifestyles more tangible
The SPREAD process of reaching out to citizens across Europe has made important steps forward. How do sustainable lifestyles taste and feel in 2050? What are people's aspirations and ideas about good life in the future? How can we reach them without compromising our welfare? These among other topics were discussed with more than 60 citizens across Europe in People Forum iFuture workshops. The iFuture tour started in January 2012 in Finland, and continued through Spain and Germany and to Hungary in early March.
iFuture workshop in Wuppertal, Germany.
At the end of the project, more than 60 Europeans will have had the possibility to join the challenging exercises and initiative. Thanks to online surveys, personal interviews and the national workshops, participants will have had the opportunity to learn more about their own material footprint and discuss ways to improve it - today and in the future.
Considering ways of reducing material footprints from the current iFuture average of 25 tons a year to a sustainable amount of 8 tons in 2050, stimulated interesting discussions among the participants. Some of them were already “on the way” to sustainable lifestyle, while others were further away, although all of them lead quite “normal” lives: working, travelling, going on holidays.
Debate on future lifestyles was facilitated and visualized by linking the footprints with motives and values affecting everyday choices as well aspirations and wishes for the future. These were collected by the SPREAD team with the help of individual telephone interviews.
The results and observations of the workshops will be included in a summary report to be published in the coming months.
For some workshop pictures, please click 
here.
For more information on the "iFuture" people forum click 
here.
