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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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Green consumerism, Marketing and manipulation, Self identity
David Orr on authentic experience
David Orr on the extinction of authentic experience, at the hands of the marketing industry. His call is to reclaim authentic experience amongst the young - by which he means experience that isn’t mediated by stuff, and the manipulation of our desire for ever more stuff.
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Campaign strategy, Green consumerism, Marketing and manipulation, Self identity, Small steps
New WWF report: ‘Weathercocks and Signposts’
04.15.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsA new WWF report, Weathercocks and Signposts: The Environment Movement at a Crossroads, critically reassesses current approaches to motivating environmentally-friendly behaviour change. Current behaviour-change strategies are increasingly built upon analogy with product marketing campaigns. They often take as given the ’sovereignty’ of consumer choice, and the perceived need to preserve current lifestyles intact. This report [...]
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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