January 2008
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, Economics and the environment, Green consumerism
Recession-proofing the climate
Can we look to a recession to reduce emissions? Or will it simply serve to expose the capricious nature of those approaches to tackling climate change which are focussed narrowly on the ‘business case’?
Yesterday I was talking to a friend who was speculating that a recession may contribute to the emergence of a greater sense [...] -
Consumerism and the pursuit of happiness, Happiness or subjective wellbeing
Green shopping
01.07.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsWhat is the role of shopping in meeting the challenge of climate change?
Today I came across a note on the West of England Climate Change project, written by Ian Preston from the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE), and disseminated as a link in Chris Rose’s Newsletter. The West of England Climate Change project put [...]
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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