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WWF leaves leading Scots alone on a mountain
Gurjit 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 [...] -
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UK Secretary of State for Environment on nature and soul
Here’s an extract from a speech by Hilary Benn, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which he gave on 28 June 2007. After this excerpt, the speech continues in a more prosaic vein: But these are surely sentiments that our political leaders must come to air more openly and frequently. It [...]
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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.
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Connection to nature, Lessons from marketing, Love, Marketing and manipulation
WWF and Saatchi & Saatchi on love
02.27.08 | Permalink | Comments OffCan the highly refined influencing techniques of the marketing industry have any role to play in helping us to move beyond green consumption; from consuming differently, to consuming less? This piece in today’s Guardian announces the formation of a group of depth-psychologists and marketing executives, to explore this question.
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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. "
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