Low Waste Living

We help individuals and organisations adopt a circular mindset and significantly reduce their waste outputs.

Citizen's Assembly on Food Systems

We facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues for the first citizens' assembly process in Switzerland. 80 people from all regions and walks of life were randomly selected to reflect, and write recommendations for the Swiss food systems policy. A process that lasted 6 months, involved dozens of in-person and online meetings, and generated recommendations destined to the Federal Council.

Mandated by : Agriculture du Futur,Biovision & SDSN Suisse.

Atelier du Futur

We designed and delivered innovation workshops for 200+ teenagers age 14-18 participating in Atelier du Futur, a summer camp centered on societal innovation. By coaching and supporting youth to develop "Mon projet du futur", we contributed a Swiss insurance company's ESG activities.

Mandated by : La Mobilière

Post-Growth Economy Workshop

For their yearly conference of members, we designed and delivered a collaborative innovation workshop on the post-growth economy. Following expert input and practical case studies from local entrepreneurs, we guided participants to reflect on what framework conditions would be needed to operationalize a post-growth economy.

Mandated by : Les VERT-E-S suisses

International Projects

Diaspora Engagement for Local Sustainable Development in Morocco

Mandated by the International Organisation for Migration, this research project aimed to inform global policymaking in the field of Migration, Environment & Climate Change (MECC) and more specifically, diaspora engagement for sustainable development.

As the North-African country forecasted to suffer the most from climate change, Morocco is compelled to engage more and more stakeholders into taking action for the Sustainable Development Goals. This investigation was precisely about how existing financial investments made by members of the Moroccan diaspora be leveraged to support sustainable development and climate change mitigation.

Diaspora communities already invest significant amounts in development projects in their regions of origin. This represents a great opportunity to highlight and learn from initiatives that contribute to climate change mitigation while sustaining local economic activity. The agricultural sector is particularly under the pressure from groundwater depletion and desertification, creating opportunities for cross-sectoral engagement and diversification.

Thanks to funding from IOM Morocco and the Graduate Institute Geneva, we went on site to hear from all the stakeholders involved in local sustainable development - diaspora members, municipal authorities, community leaders, banks, and the national government - to find out how sustainability is conceived, supported and enacted.

Solèy La Fè Manje : Solar Energy and Food Security in Haiti

Carried out in collaboration with OneAction and Sadhana Forest, this project addresses the economic, social and environmental problems of Anse-à-Pitres, a border region in the southeast of Haiti, by shifting to clean energy sources for food production. More specifically, we installed a solar-powered flour mill to transform indigenous, nutrient-dense nuts from the Maya Nut tree into healthy and sustainable secondary goods like breads, cookies, sauces and drinks.

Haiti is extensively deforested, which leads to soil erosion, desertification and resource depletion. Initially a result of the colonial regime’s export-oriented agricultural land use, deforestation today is mainly driven by the charcoal industry. Extreme poverty perpetuates this destructive activity, as lack of access to capital prevents other industries from burgeoning despite renewable natural resources being available.

By enabling the sustainable production of nutritious goods, the solar-powered mill offers an alternative to selling charcoal and creates value around trees. By consequence, resource depletion gradually ceases to be considered as a necessity for development, instead promoting the sustainable use of local natural resources like solar energy and dry tropical plants.

The solar-powered mill is available to the whole Anse-à-Pitres community, promoting the conditions for a collective shift to sustainable land use practices. This allows the development of income-generating activities while not only fostering local autonomy and increasing food security, but also restoring the ecological balance of the area. The long term vision of Solèy La Fè Manjè is the consolidation of a local network around Maya Nut harvest, transformation and trade, with support for the creation of skill-shares, cooperatives and other activities underpinning ecological socioeconomic development.