Tools and Services

Sustainability

The idea of sustainability originally refers from forestry where the amount of wood lumbered should not exceed the natural annual growth of wood.

The modern term sustainability imparts the three columns ecology, economy and society.

ecoproduct.at Internet portal for an easy understandable and neutral instrument for sustainable evaluation of products and consumers
ecotopten.de List of ecological products with high quality and good price performance ratio updated by the German Öko-Institut.
topprodukte.at Energy efficient products of the areas lighting, office, living, heating, mobility, communication and entertainment for the Austrian market.
Öko-Test Germans Öko-Test Magazins web site
PROSA Methods for Product Sustainability Assessment (PROSA) of the german Öko-Institut.

environmentally conscious consumption Page of the environmental Ministry of Switzerland with environmental topics.
Öko-Fair German portal for ecological and fair trade
Labelinfo Informations on Labels
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy: MIPS The Wuppertal Institute focuses its work on application-oriented sustainability research.
Sozial Sustainability Publications on social sustainability of the workers' chamber of vienna.
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International Network of 20 member organisations for labelling and standardizing products within fair trade.
Initiative Sustainable Behaviour Initiative to bring together consumers and trade organisations for improving the marked conditions of sustainable products - mainly in the areas living and textiles.

ISO 26000 Initiative Information of the Austrian Institute for Standardization on the development of the ISO 26000 Standard.
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a multi-stakeholder process and independent institution which develops and disseminates globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. These Guidelines are for voluntary use by organisations for reporting on the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of their activities, products, and services.
Global Reporting Initiative Database Search: Searching on CSR Reports of companies.
Cooperate Register Data base includeing 15.000 CSR Reports and Information on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Respact Site of the austrian business council for sustainable development to give companies the possibility for an CSR self check.
Human Development Index Index of the United Nations Development Programm (UNDP) about social and human development on the earth.
Human Developing Trends Animated graphical visualisation of global developing trends based on UNDP data.