The Spark Blog

Earth Hour is a chance for companies to raise awareness and show commitment to addressing environmental issues. This year, Spark Sustainability offers a turn-key Earth Hour campaign making it easy for companies to participate and use it as a starting point for year-round climate action. Join us for Earth Hour and make a difference!

As the year ends, it’s time to reflect on what we achieved this year and look at the year ahead. This year, Spark Sustainability empowered the Donut Crew to save over 348 900 kg CO2-eq via the Carbon Donut app. No bad, huh?

The Climate Campaign was kicked off by calculating the institution’s carbon footprint to bring awareness of the current impact and use that as a starting point. Now, the exciting part has started: the team’s climate work has been kicked off with the help of the Carbon Donut app. 

Vastuullisuusjohtaja, tervetuloa Spark Sustainabilityn webinaariin 4. marraskuuta! Webinaari on suunnattu eri toimialojen ja eri kokoisten yritysten vastuullisuusjohtajille ja muille aiheen parissa työskenteleville henkilöille.

Spark Sustainability will calculate Novia's carbon footprint and then arrange a climate campaign for their employees, using the Carbon Donut app to get everyone onboard in reducing emissions.

Co-Founder Anna Eriksson was appointed Spark Sustainability’s new CEO, starting June 13th 2022. Eriksson has previously had the role of Product Owner for Spark Sustainability’s carbon tracking app Carbon Donut.

The clothing rental service The Ateljé wanted to understand the climate impact of renting clothes compared to buying new and turned to Spark Sustainability for help.

“We strive to nudge people’s behaviour towards more sustainable living practices”, said one interviewee in our market research this spring.

After fruitful discussions with larger corporations and municipalities, Spark Sustainability sets out to pilot a solution that increases sustainability-related innovation.

Spark Sustainability has enabled 40 000 climate actions and over 30 000 people have tried our calculator in order to find out their lifestyle emissions.

The Finnish Publishers Association wanted to offer its members a list of concrete climate actions to take and turned to Spark Sustainability for help.

​​This spring, Spark Sustainability is exploring different ways to develop digital tools for companies that help consumers identify truly climate-smart products.

Company climate strategies easily remain abstract and feel far-off in the daily work of employees. As a solution we are developing a tool that engages employees in their company’s climate work.

A new webshop plug-in by Spark Sustainability lets customers see how much emissions could be saved by buying second hand instead of new.

Logging climate actions and completing lessons will now earn Carbon Donut users climate-smart deals from Spark Sustainability’s partner network.

The Carbon Donut 1.0 launch campaign organised together with Ilmatar and Gold&Green Foods® was a success resulting in nearly 5000 app downloads.

Carbon Donut -sovelluksen avulla jokainen voi oppia, millä ilmastoteoilla on suurin vaikutus ja tutustua ilmastoystävällisten yritysten tarjoamiin vaihtoehtoihin.

The discussion sparked by the BLM movement got Spark Sustainability to take a critical view on its operations and to take action to improve them further.

The sweetest carbon tracker out there has a new name: Carbon Donut.

When sustainable food pioneers Gold&Green were about to renew their websites, they turned to Spark Sustainability for support with communicating their sustainability work.

We worked together with Mya Design to help you give the best gift ever — time spent together.

The sweetest carbon tracker out there is continuously evolving and growing, the latest update being a completely new feature: Talk.

To celebrate its 3rd birthday, Spark Sustainability is organising a campaign to demonstrate just how fun and pleasant climate action can be.

Gathered investment enables further development of carbon tracking app The Donut.

The climate needs saving also after COVID-19!

With Spark Sustainability’s support, Moomin Characters have not only reduced their own carbon footprint by 16%, but also implemented a climate strategy.

With the meetups, Spark Sustainability wants to address the need for personal guidance on adopting climate-smart habits and inspire discussion.

Our app is finally here!! It’s called The Donut, and it inspires climate-smart habits and connects you with low-carbon service providers. We hope you'll love it!

Spark Sustainability partnered up with Neste to create fact-filled and inspirational content for their Climate Week campaign.

Spark is proud to be a close supporter of the #OURSEA campaign, which is going to be the largest campaign for the Baltic Sea to date.

The Nordic Council of Ministers, the Nordic Investment Bank and Moomin Characters Ltd all want to improve the state of the Baltic Sea.

Imagine a room full of smart and ambitious people, all working towards solving environmental issues - that was the Impact Evening in a nutshell. It was a blast!

Spark Sustainability on mukana Kokeileva Suomi -kärkihankkeessa. Miten suomalaisten hiilijalanjäljen puolittaminen vuoteen 2030 mennessä voisi onnistua?

"What if our generation doesn't want to consume more? What if we actually want to enjoy the great immaterial things in life; wellbeing, family and friends.”

Did you notice a whirlwind of pictures of people in front of a pink photowall on social media the other week?

With the help of Spark the employees at the Nasdaq Helsinki office ran a one-month campaign to make workday lunches more sustainable.

We worked together with Mya Design to create something that makes a great Christmas gift.

The employees at Nasdaq Helsinki office are running a campaign to make workday lunches more sustainable.

Out of the eight crowdfunding rewards, three stood out in popularity. Here’s what they say about Spark’s community.

Wow! Our crowdfunding campaign kicked off beyond expectations and there’s still time to join the movement!

This is the first Sparkling Story - a story about how people came together to create a better world. It was something of a coincidence - a very lucky one.