October 2007
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Is porn all bad?
10.26.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsMuch has been written about ‘climate porn’; the perjorative phrase for journalism that pulls no punches in highlighting the scale of upheaval that climate change is likely to create over the course of the next few generations. It came up several times in discussions at Communicate 07, a recent conference for environmental communication professionals. The [...]
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Stuff we don’t need, but really, really want…
Our autistic relationship with the world enshrined in three images:
Thanks to Alastair McIntosh for sending me this.
Stuff you don’t need… but you really, really want.…dine out all year…
…and warm your hands on one of these…
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Connecting with the Thames
10.22.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHere’s a short video that Richard Wilson shot when we interviewed Mark Lloyd about his experience of getting people - from stockbrokers to school children - down to the river Thames in Central London, to help clean it up. What particularly interests me is that Mark’s own state of happiness is in some way bound [...]
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Our ecological identity
10.12.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWhat is an ecological identity?
I just re-read a paper, ‘Constructing and Maintaining Ecological Identities: the Strategies of Deep Ecologists’ by Steve Zavetoski in a book entitled ‘Identity and the Natural Environment’. Steve contributed a comment to this site a while back.
The paper explores whether an ecological identity can be a meaningful concept, given that our [...] -
Consuming to find meaning?
10.09.07 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI’ve just been reading The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, edited by Tim Jackson. Taken as a whole, the book makes a powerful case for the failings of our consumer society to make us happy (drawing attention even to evidence that “healthy psychological and social functioning may even be impaired by high levels of materialismâ€). [...]
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