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		<title>Toward a New Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/08/22/toward-a-new-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Engaging societal values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Society needs a major shift in its core values to stave off an environmental crisis, warns a Yale report “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities”.
&#8220;For a long, long time the environmental community has been running on the original fuel from the 1970s,&#8221; said Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Secretary of State for Environment on nature and soul</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/08/13/uk-secretary-of-state-for-environment-on-nature-and-soul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/08/13/uk-secretary-of-state-for-environment-on-nature-and-soul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connection to nature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes our species worth saving?</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/06/06/what-makes-our-species-worth-saving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/06/06/what-makes-our-species-worth-saving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychological impact of climate change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a piece in this month&#8217;s Ecologist, Richard Heinberg reflects on the psychological impacts of an awareness of the impact of climate change.
&#8220;Strategy shifts. We move from rehearsing &#8216;Fifty simple things you can do to save the Earth&#8217; to discussing global triage. As the Great Unraveling proceeds, there may in fact be only one occupation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do The Green Thing gets real</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/05/06/do-the-green-thing-gets-real/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/05/06/do-the-green-thing-gets-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campaign strategy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green consumerism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Small steps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do The Green Thing has long been urging subscribers to take the lift rather than the stairs, or to turn the lights off early every so often. All good stuff; but nothing that is going to help us begin to scrutinise the primary drivers of unsustainable behaviour. This month, though, Do The Green Thing has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change - An Aesthetic Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/05/06/climate-change-an-aesthetic-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/05/06/climate-change-an-aesthetic-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 08:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Boldon (Director MA Arts and Ecology, Dartington College of Arts, UK and  Associate Curator, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK) writes that &#8220;it is established that we are in the midst of an ecological crisis. I would argue that we also find ourselves in aesthetic crisis and that these two states are fundamentally related.&#8221; Read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does climate change do to our heads?</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/25/what-does-climate-change-do-to-our-heads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/25/what-does-climate-change-do-to-our-heads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Connection to nature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environment and wellbeing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Psychological impact of climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self identity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 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
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		<title>Yale&#8217;s Gus Speth calls for shift from U.S. consumer capitalism to solve environmental problems</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/23/yales-gus-speth-calls-for-shift-from-us-consumer-capitalism-to-solve-environmental-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/23/yales-gus-speth-calls-for-shift-from-us-consumer-capitalism-to-solve-environmental-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment and wellbeing]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Psychological impact of climate change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The story may be familiar, but look who&#8217;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&#8217; environmental problems? In his new book, &#8220;The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Orr on authentic experience</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/17/david-orr-on-authentic-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/17/david-orr-on-authentic-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green consumerism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing and manipulation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self identity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t mediated by stuff, and the manipulation of our desire for ever more stuff.
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		<title>New WWF report: &#8216;Weathercocks and Signposts&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/15/new-wwf-report-weathercocks-and-signposts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/15/new-wwf-report-weathercocks-and-signposts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Small steps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
A 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 &#8217;sovereignty&#8217; of consumer choice, and the perceived need to preserve current lifestyles intact. This report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Martin Sorrell on deliberate obsolescence</title>
		<link>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/01/sir-martin-sorrell-on-deliberate-obsolescence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valuingnature.org/2008/04/01/sir-martin-sorrell-on-deliberate-obsolescence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green consumerism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the global marketing group WPP, recently called for an end to deliberate obsolescence, citing Apple as a prime example of a company that exploits this as a strategy to flog more stuff:
&#8220;Sorrell cited Apple as an example of a brand creating products that consumers quickly jettison in favour of [...]]]></description>
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