July 2007
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Response from Wesley Schultz
07.27.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsI asked Wesley Schultz to comment on the accuracy of my reflections on his work in an earlier post. Here is the subsequent email exchange that we had, which he is happy for me to post up.
Tom: Wes, I’d be interested to know whether you feel that the short post I wrote on your work [...] -
Seeing the world feelingly
07.17.07 | Permalink | Comments OffWe’ve just been given a copy of Mark Edwards and Lloyd Timberlake’s book ‘Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature‘, which sets the words of Bob Dylan’s song ‘Hard Rain’ to photographs. Michael Edwards writes, in the introduction:
“On the heath, Lear asks Gloucester how he sees the world. Gloucester, who is blind, answers: ‘I [...] -
Why Stern was always set to fail
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concluded that the costs of inaction on climate change could rise to 20 per cent of GDP, or more, each year. By contrast, “the costs of action… can be limited to around 1 per cent of global GDP each yearâ€.
There was a widespread expectation that the [...] -
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction is a documentary film that “explores the mass extinction, its six main causes, the cultural myths and values that drive it, the psychology that underpins it, and the latest insights into natural systems that could help us turn back the tideâ€. There is a ten-minute teaser. The first [...]
Home: Valuing Nature
ValuingNature.org provides a forum for asking: are the successes of today's dominant strategies for creating behavioural change adequate if we are to meet the huge environmental challenges that we face, and might there be alternative approaches? It has been developed as part of WWF-UK's Strategies for Change Project.
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Weathercocks and signposts: The Environment Movement at a Crossroads is a critical re-examination of the assumptions underlying current approaches to motivating environmentally-friendly behaviour.
Simple and Painless? The limitations of spillover in environmental campaigning presents a critical examination of the evidence that urging people to switch to energy-efficient lightbulbs encourages them adopt more ambitious changes.
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"The next revolution - World War III - will be waged inside your head. It will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or even around the scarce resources of the earth, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, TV and in ’cyberspace’... It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future. "
Marshall McLuhan, in Culture is Our Business, cited on 'Dennis Pamlin's homepage'
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