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musings on sustainable consumption: More on light
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Saturday, 6 November 2010. I'm still thinking a lot about lighting, technology, efficiencies and the rebound effect so this is going to be a bit of a ramble going nowhere. If, as argued by Tsao et al, each iteration of more efficient lighting leads to an increase in total energy consumption (the rebound effect) what will it take to realise the efficiencies offered and so desperately needed? Questions such as what is it that lighting gives us? Is is purely functional, extending our productive hours? Perha...
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musings on sustainable consumption: December 2009
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Wednesday, 2 December 2009. It looks like population is back on the menu. On a couple of occasions during the sustainable consumption course ‘population’ has come up, generally the response was a sharp intake of breath and the feeling that this was a taboo. Of course it’s too simplistic to just consider the degradation of (finite) natural capital interms of numbers of humans. But is it just a distributional problem? Is it simply that too few take too much and too many have access to not enough? Radio 4 h...
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musings on sustainable consumption: When two cultures collide
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Thursday, 5 August 2010. When two cultures collide. I am having an interesting time in the past few months experiencing being homeless and living within households with a very, very different attitude when it comes to carbon and energy consumption. Let’s be clear I am in no doubt that I am a minority and my hosts are the majority. Why do you do that? I’m not doing that! I like it like that! Is the underlying character still dominantly characterised by the majority? How do you change an entire culture....
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musings on sustainable consumption: Forget the negative and accentuate the positive
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Monday, 30 August 2010. Forget the negative and accentuate the positive. Three things have stuck in my mind in the past week, that have got me thinking about contentment, happiness, pessimism and optimism. These were Einstein, Positive Psychology and 'The Tipping Point. Bear with me it will make sense. I hope. The first was this quote from Einstein I saw in a window of an advertising agency, now so often cited that its become ubiquitous :. What about the positive? Alison Olgier-Price of Canterbury Univer...
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Tackling climate change through community: October 2009
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Tackling climate change through community. A discussion on how we can encourage communities to live low(er) carbon lifestyles. Wednesday, October 21, 2009. BBC NEWS Politics 'Scary' UK climate ad faces probe. Not only is it not necessarily going to be very effective, it turns out it also appears to be breaking some Advertising Standards Authority rules.oops. BBC NEWS Politics 'Scary' UK climate ad faces probe. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Bridging the Apathy Gap ClimateBiz.com. Monday, October 19, 2009.
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Tackling climate change through community: What does social practice theory offer the work I'm doing?
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Tackling climate change through community. A discussion on how we can encourage communities to live low(er) carbon lifestyles. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. What does social practice theory offer the work I'm doing? I recently had an interesting email exchange with Tom Hargreaves, one of my supervisors here at UEA, regarding the role of social practice theory. For those uninitiated into the world of practice, a very brief synopsis (taken from Reckwitz) is as follows:. A (from TH) From the householders per...
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Tackling climate change through community: Plane Stupid's shock ads linking flights with polar bear deaths could fall flat | Ed Gillespie | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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Tackling climate change through community. A discussion on how we can encourage communities to live low(er) carbon lifestyles. Friday, November 20, 2009. Plane Stupid's shock ads linking flights with polar bear deaths could fall flat Ed Gillespie Environment guardian.co.uk. Plane Stupid's shock ads linking flights with polar bear deaths could fall flat Ed Gillespie Environment guardian.co.uk. November 23, 2009 at 12:32 PM. Not a bad article. 1 research shows that they are working with the mass of people.
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Tackling climate change through community: Green business...
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Tackling climate change through community. A discussion on how we can encourage communities to live low(er) carbon lifestyles. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Long time, no blog.and I've got no excuses either apart from the usual 'I've been so busy! Variety that are actually just a hollow excuse for not posting anything. The article is from Saturday's Guardian and is available here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. It was about this time three years ago I wrote my last blog. Why?
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musings on sustainable consumption: October 2010
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010. On lighting, technology and behaviour. Have you noticed that in the past decade or so as low energy light bulbs (compact fluorescent, CFLS) have become more prevalent the total number of lights you see have increased? Where once we were happy with a single bulb dangling in the centre of the room and one or two lamps dotted strategically about we now expect illumination in every corner as we up light, down light, mood light and spot light ourselves out of the darkness. The auth...
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musings on sustainable consumption: July 2010
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010. New Zealands Emissions trading scheme stepped up another gear on 1 July 2010 when stationary energy and liquid fossil fuel industries came into play for a first transition period. I'm not going to go into details on the scheme, information regarding the scheme can be found here: http:/ www.climatechange.govt.nz/ and here: http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. PS It seems that there really is nothing that can't be sold on internet trading sites such as e...
