October 2008
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Engaging societal values, New stories
Okri on Oracles
10.30.08 | Permalink | Comments OffBen Okri in today’s Times.
“[Our] only hope lies in a fundamental re-examination of the values that we have lived by in the past 30 years. It wouldn’t do just to improve the banking system - we need to redesign the whole edifice. There ought to be great cries in the land, great anger. But there [...] -
Campaign strategy, Climate change, Environment and wellbeing, Green consumerism, Psychological impact of climate change, Psychology of denial, Small steps
The ideology of simple painless steps
10.29.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI’ve spent the last two days at a conference for environmental communicators, Communicate 08. There was a recurrent issue which ran through the whole conference - about the strategies that the environment movement deploys to create change.
We heard disparate inputs from (on the one hand) Tesco’s (’Every Little Helps’ - let’s focus on successes in [...] -
Consumerism and the pursuit of happiness
Methadone for our planetary heroin addiction?
10.24.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHere’s a Thought for the Day piece from Alastair McIntosh, reflecting on the “conundrum.. that we need more consumption to save the economy, but less to save the planet. Spending our way out of a recession”, he suggests, “is therefore only a stop-gap measure. It’s methadone for our planetary heroin addiction.”
The transcript follows, but you [...] -
Climate change, Environment and wellbeing, Psychological impact of climate change
Psychological counselling on climate change
Jules Peck just sent me this link to a document produced by the Australian Psychological Society, offering “suggestions for dealing with distressing feelings when learning about environmental problems”.
Although environmental threats are real and can be frightening, remaining in a state of heightened distress is not helpful for ourselves or for others. We generally cope [...] -
Green consumerism, Small steps
Recycling for free flights
10.06.08 | Permalink | Comments OffA couple from Hampshire cash in on Tesco’s offer to provide free air-miles in exchange for recycling: a particularly vivid example of rebound, when the use of the financial rewards from doing something ‘green’ totally undermines any environmental benefits of this. The irony is lost on the author of this piece in the [...]
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Connection to nature
WWF leaves leading Scots alone on a mountain
10.03.08 | Permalink | Comments OffGurjit Singh, President of NUS Scotland, is participating in WWF’s ‘Natural Change’ project. He writes: So How do you explain dancing at the top of a mountain, laughing uncontrollably, roaring with anger and frustration?
I don’t know if you can - it’s something that just happens. I thought I was mad. I thought I was experiencing [...]
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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