Woven Strategies for Sustainable Change Markku Salo, University of Vaasa, FINLAND, mkusalo@gmail.com Hannu Vanharanta, Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND, hannu.Vanharanta@tut.fi Jussi Kantola, University of Vaasa, FINLAND, jusilakan@gmail.com Evangelos Markopoulos, University of Vaasa, FINLAND, epm@empross.com Global Cleaner Production & Sustainable Consumption Conference : Accelerating the Transition to Equitable Post Fossil-Carbon Societies 1 – 4 November 2015, Barcelona, SPAIN http://www.cleanerproductionconference.com/ Abstract: Environmental topics are becoming more and more vital for our wellbeing and life on planet Earth. Most countries have realized the need to reduce carbon and other emissions and taken actions to clean up nature - the waters, forest, and air. There are numerous persons delivering speeches all over the world on sustainable development and climate change. One of the most prominent speakers has been Al Gore [6]. The Woven Strategy [15] method is a top-middle-bottom-up operational approach for strategy making with a focus on gathering expert knowledge for the benefit of strategy makers. After collecting the basic information and data, the decision and strategy makers discuss the strategy proposals for knowledge creation before drawing up first the possible options and alternatives; after that making decisions; and finally creating a strategy that can be implemented. With this approach, the knowledge of experts from various business areas can be gathered and used as well as making it much easier to increase the commitment of the organization in question to the created strategy. In our research, over the years we have made several test runs with international student groups in order for the students to see and understand the big picture of international problems such as climate change, creating strategies for ecological companies and creating strategies for companies that produce solar and wind energy, etc. These test runs reveal that young people really do think differently and that they are eager to fight against climate change as well as thinking more in the direction of sustainability. This is the way to sustainable growth and change.