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Due to the people's lack of engagement on sustainability, the impacts of industrial production continue to increase. Many people see sustainable development as a distant reality and dependent on factors exclusively linked to technology, ignoring that the transition to more sustainable life styles requires a social learning process marked by collaboration and participation of people, i.e. through social capital. Sustainable Product-Service Systems and Distributed Production are approaches that favor behavioral change about artifacts' production and consumption. However, few empirical data has been generated about these promising models and their potential to promote sustainability. This paper presents data collected in the UM PASSO project, one of these initiatives located in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Through observation, questionnaires and interviews, the possibility of social capital strengthening related to these new practices of design, production and consumption is investigated. The results indicate that replication of local initiatives can promote a discontinuity in consolidated behavior, combating individualism and lack of cooperation, opening a debate and strengthening essential aspects for sustainable development.
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