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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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Campaign strategy, Environment and wellbeing, Green consumerism, Psychological impact of climate change
Yale’s Gus Speth calls for shift from U.S. consumer capitalism to solve environmental problems
The story may be familiar, but look who’s saying it. Speth was founder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute.
Will shifting from a GDP-driven society help solve the United States’ environmental problems? In his new book, “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from [...] -
Environment and wellbeing, Happiness or subjective wellbeing
Why are Danes so happy…
02.21.08 | Permalink | Comments Off… despite being a bit dour; and what do they think they can teach the Americans about it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shepBx2ogJo
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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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