Shift 1.5 Method book

How to inspire people to live more sustainable everyday life?
The Shift 1.5 Method book is your guide.

What is this about?

Have you ever wondered, how to increase people’s understanding on sustainable lifestyles?

The Shift 1.5 Method book is a kit of different methods that introduce you to the Shift 1.5 approach to sustainable lifestyles. It describes the main principles and philosophy behind the approach and most importantly works as your guidebook through your upcoming journey towards inspiring and enabling people to live more sustainable everyday lives.

The methods are divided into four categories: methods that help you and others to understand the context of how important ensuring sustainable lifestyles is in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and how the impact of our daily lives can be quantified; methods that help you equip your team with regionally relevant human insight into making the change happen; methods you can use to catalyse wider climate action after you acquire the regionally relevant insight. Lastly, this method kit also highlights the power of positive storytelling.

Shift 1.5 aims at helping organisationts to inspire people to live good lives while reducing climate impact.
Image: Shift 1.5 helps organisations inspire and support individuals to live good and sustainable lifestyles. The Shift 1.5 Method book walks you through the different methods and tools to succeed.

This method kit is a co-creative project and will be regularly updated and iterated together with the Shift 1.5 community members. By following the structure of this kit, you will find examples of how to put together a coherent, independent sustainable everyday life project anywhere in the world. However, the content can also be revised in any order of your preference and according to what you think would work best in your region.

The Shift 1.5 Methods

Dig in deeper!

Category
Method

Understand the context: 1.5-degree lifestyles study

Method

Understand the context: Pathways to 1.5-degree lifestyles study

Method

Understand the context: Leading-edge consumer study

Method

Understand the context: Behaviour SHIFT model

Method

Equip with insight: Individual carbon footprint

Method

Equip with insight: Sustainable lifestyles surveys

Method

Equip with insight: Motivation profiles

Method

Catalyse action: Lifestyle test

Method

Catalyse action: 100 Smart everyday choices

Method

Catalyse action: Sustainable lifestyle planning tools

Method

Catalyse action: Acceleration model for businesses

Method

Catalyse action: Engagement model for organisations

Method

Engage with storytelling

Method

Engage with your audience on social media

All the methods in one document!
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Join the Shift 1.5 community

Shift 1.5 is a community of practice that can help you and your organisation to accelerate the adoption of sustainable good life in your country, region or city. We offer lessons learned, practical experience and tools. Learn more about Shift 1.5 here: What is Shift 1.5?

Want to bring Shift 1.5 to your reagion? We are searching for new teams! Contact shift1o5@sitra.fi for more information.

These teams are already members of the community:

If you have questions regarding teams’ work, you want to contribute to or co-operate with them, please connect with these points of contact.

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Contact

Get in touch!

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Markus Terho
Director, Nature and daily life & PSLifestyle
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Sari Laine
Senior Lead, Nature and daily life
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Saara Rimon
Senior Lead, Nature and daily life & PSLifestyle

What's this about?

Project

Shift 1.5

Inspiring organisations around the world to help individuals build their own fulfilling and sustainable lifestyles.

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Topic

Sustainable everyday life

The way we live, travel and eat and what we buy has an enormous impact on the environment. To make sustainable everyday life easier we need more attractive products and services.

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Theme

Sustainability solutions

Our daily lives, decision-making practices and business can fit within the earth’s carrying capacity. It pays to seize sustainable solutions right now, as they can help us stop overconsumption and biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change.

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