Category: Cases

• The Carbon Map – a guide for climate-conscious city planning

  

  Read about the development process of The Carbon Map, a carbon emission calculator for more sustainable city planning. Avoin, Natural Resources Institute Finland, and Finnish Environment Institute have joined forces and produced The Carbon Map, a carbon emission calculator, which helps experts calculate how zoning affects the carbon stock of the built environment. The tool…

• ReLive – working together for circular agriculture

  

  Let’s discuss the many ways the global research project ReLive is looking to make farming more sustainable. Introduction It all started with professor Bruce Osborne from University College Dublin getting together with his colleagues Ibrahim Khalil, Cor Jacobs, and Bart Kruijt to discuss their common research interest in mitigating GHG emissions associated with agricultural activities.…

• Unlocking sustainability with transparency

  

  TalTech’s open-source GHG tool developed in collaboration with Avoin ry Businesses are increasingly recognizing the importance of sustainability and the need to reduce their carbon footprint. While larger corporations often have the resources to invest in understanding and calculating their net impact, it’s equally vital for small and mid-sized companies to take meaningful steps toward…

• Forest Kids — educating youth about biodiversity

  

  Join us for a collaborative journey of game creation from concept to launch. In this article, you’ll learn about the creative process behind the online game Forest Kids, from its initial concept to its final launch. You’ll discover how the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Avoin, and the European Space Agency (ESA) worked together to…

• Reliving the future

  

  A retrospective approach to sustainable farming Reintegrating land and livestock (Relive) is a transnational project researching mixed farms, especially concerning greenhouse gas emissions and circularity. In the project, mixed farms refer to the integration of crops and livestock. Reintegration highlights how mixed farms were the norm in the past. Relive allows mixed farms to be explored…

• Building digital tools for sustainable forest management

  

  Here´s a sneak peek into the development process of the forestry layer of Avoin Map, the virtual mapping tool for sustainable development. Sustainable forest management is not easy — but digital tools can make it a little easier. Avoin, a not-for-profit organization focusing on digital tools for sustainable development, has developed its virtual mapping tool Avoin…

• Reducing the environmental impact of peatland agriculture

  

  “In the beginning, there were the swamp, the hoe — and Jussi”, says Finnish author Väinö Linna. But what comes next? This blog post and related article (in Finnish, behind a paywall) were produced as a part of the Makera-fund-supported OMAIHKA-project “Climate change mitigation in organic soils on cattle farms” coordinated by Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE).…

• Saving the Baltic Sea — one field at a time

  

  Who knew mapping agricultural practices might help protect the porpoises? As a Finn, I have had the opportunity to grow by the Baltic Sea. This globally unique marine area is low in salinity, comparatively shallow and home to many rare, protected, and adorable mammals such as the harbor porpoise and the Baltic ringed seal. Unfortunately,…

• Fighting deforestation with satellite data

  

  Let the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the University of Helsinki, and Avoin show you how it´s done. They say Finland is “the land of thousand lakes”, even though in reality the number is closer to two hundred thousand. Nevertheless, as a Finn, I see the country first and foremost as a land…