Michael Lettenmeier
D-mat
Dr. Michael Lettenmeier is a researcher, consultant and trainer in the fields of sustainable natural resource use, footprint calculation and sustainable lifestyles. Most recently, he has set a focus on one-planet lifestyles and developed together with others the 8 tonnes resource cap for sustainable lifestyles and the concept of 1.5-degree lifestyles. He is consulting and training the implications of one-planet lifestyles for business, design and different organizations.
With the team at his own company, d-mat.fi, based in Helsinki/Finland, Michael has run numerous research and development projects on sustainable lifestyles and footprint calculators. He defended his doctoral dissertation on one-planet lifestyles and how to design them as a member of the NODUS research group on sustainable design at Aalto Unversity and works there presently also as a post-doctoral researcher on the role of carbon footprint calculation in orchestrating the transition towards an eco-welfare state. He is also a member of the division of Sustainable Consumption and Production at the German Wuppertal Institute. Michael Lettenmeier has published a huge range of scientific and popular literature in different fields of sustainability.
With the team at his own company, d-mat.fi, based in Helsinki/Finland, Michael has run numerous research and development projects on sustainable lifestyles and footprint calculators. He defended his doctoral dissertation on one-planet lifestyles and how to design them as a member of the NODUS research group on sustainable design at Aalto Unversity and works there presently also as a post-doctoral researcher on the role of carbon footprint calculation in orchestrating the transition towards an eco-welfare state. He is also a member of the division of Sustainable Consumption and Production at the German Wuppertal Institute. Michael Lettenmeier has published a huge range of scientific and popular literature in different fields of sustainability.