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Mining the Mind

We constantly generate new knowledge and insights about sustainable development. Here, we share all our publications and public research. All material is open source (CC-BY-SA).

These articles contain excursions into new ways of thinking about a sustainable society, as well as tools and guides.

Highlights

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Tuning in to the construction sector’s “music of tomorrow”

Feb 2019

Catalytic Buildings White Paper

Except Integrated Sustainability launches a new approach to sustainable urban development: Catalytic Buildings. Catalytic Buildings are next generation high performance buildings that boost the e…

Peer benchmarking tool speeds up sustainability across paper and print industries

Oct 2016

IKEA is Creating a Self-Learning Supply Chain

Rotterdam, 7 oktober 2016, “I never fully realized IKEA’s true power until we did this project,” says Matthieu Leroy, Sustainability Specialist at IKEA Media Production. To improve the green procu…

Sustainability innovation framework

May 2009

Symbiosis in Development (SiD)

Symbiosis in Development (SiD) is a practical framework for integrated sustainable development, based on systems- and design thinking, and agile development. SiD guides you and and your team in a …

Articles archive

Built & Natural Environment Organizations & Industry Training & Knowledge

2020 May Bananas Resilience

Lacking Resilience is Bananas

While society is struggling with the Corona pandemic, bananas are facing their own, a fungus called Foc-TR4. It is not the first time t…

Crona Virus

Corona’s lesson to the world: the need for resilience

The climate crisis, resource shortages, social fracturing, economic disparities, natural disasters, and other events have given us plenty o…

Natural Capital & new innovation strategies

The land we grow our food on, water that flows through it, animals and plants living in this environment, and the oceans - the birthplace o…

Keeping Our Bees

Today, following the recent UN report outlining the devastating degradation of our planet’s natural biodiversity, is World Bee Day. To cele…

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Symbiosis in Development: ELSI

ELSI is a categorization tool to index the different areas of interest for integrated development. It replaces the People, Planet, Profit …

Symbiosis in Development (SiD)

Symbiosis in Development (SiD)

Symbiosis in Development (SiD) is a framework for developing multi-faceted sustainability innovations, using systems-thinking, network theo…

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