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Campaign strategy, Climate change, Engaging societal values, Green consumerism, Psychology of denial, Small steps
The Carbon Detox: How far will materialism get us?
03.09.09 | Permalink | Comments OffI spent Saturday at a meeting on the psychological and political challenge of facing climate change at UWE.
George Marshall delivered the opening lecture – in witty and thought-provoking style. He guided us through the evidence for the deployment of ‘emotional management strategies’ or ‘psychological coping mechanisms’ that people use when confronted with a threat [...] -
Campaign strategy, Climate change, Engaging societal values
The New Politics of Climate change
11.28.08 | Permalink | Comments OffStephen Hale, Director of the Green Alliance, published a report yesterday which calls for a new approach to the politics of climate change. It highlights the problem of the three-way stand-off between business, politicians and the public, and quite rightly identifies the primary role for government to address the problems we confront.
But, as Stephen argues, [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
Climate change, Economics and the environment
So much for green growth
09.23.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThe assertion that we can achieve the emission reductions we need through pursuit of the ‘business-case for sustainable development’ cries out to be stared hard in the face, and a recent paper from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research seems to do just that.
First, ‘Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission [...] -
Climate change, Connection to nature, Environment and wellbeing, Psychological impact of climate change, Self identity
What does climate change do to our heads?
04.25.08 | Permalink | Comments OffA recent article on Wordchanging:
A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being influenced strongly by ecosystem transformation related to climate change and industry-related displacement from the land. These powerful stressors are occurring more frequently around the world.
Read it here
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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