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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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Conservation, Communication, Collaboration. Around The World Challenge. Fieldwork: Coral Reefs of Wakatobi. February 10, 2013. Check out my fieldwork interview on fellow conservationist and PhD student James Borrell’s Blog Link – Fieldwork: Coral Reefs of Wakatobi. Read Article →. February 9, 2013. I’ve been locked away in the lab for a month now working on our big experiment. Its been 4 months of preparation and one month of all work and no […]. Read Article →. Top Tips For Starting A PhD. Do you ever g...
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Around The World Challenge | moralcoral
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Conservation, Communication, Collaboration. Around The World Challenge. Around The World Challenge. I have a Dream…. or so the saying goes,. But I really do have a dream, an ambitious one at that, but one I’m working on slowly. The world is such a huge place and there is so much to see…. I want to see it all. From a young age I decided I wanted to go to every country in the world, I would often check up online at the current country count so I could work out how many I would have to go to per year. Well ...
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Top Tips For Starting A PhD | moralcoral
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Conservation, Communication, Collaboration. Around The World Challenge. Top Tips For Starting A PhD. February 4, 2013. So close, yet so far. I’m currently in the third and final year* of my PhD here at the University of Essex and it’s been a long and troublesome journey. However this post is not to discuss that, but rather to disclose the things I wish I’d known which would have made my life and PhD a hell of a lot easier. 8211; I have heard horror stories of student losing all their data. There is n...
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Rememories and Unthink: Getting a bit phronetic
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Friday, 14 August 2009. Getting a bit phronetic. I’m giving a paper in a little under two weeks at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) conference in Manchester as part of a session I’m co-organising that’s rather grandly entitled ‘Innovating methodological approaches to pro-environmental behaviour’ or some such. Now, it was back in November/December 2008 that I dreamed up my abstract for this session. I’d recently read Bent Flyvbjerg’s book. 8216;Making Social Science Matter’. Is technical knowledge, an...
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Rememories and Unthink: The individual and practice theory (and cricket)
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009. The individual and practice theory (and cricket). Right, ever since I attended a meeting recently, something’s been troubling me about social practice theory. I’ll introduce this and why anyone should care about it in a moment, but the burning issue for me is this:. What happens to the individual in practice-based accounts of social change? So, having set up this new approach, I’m now left asking how, if at all, does the individual fit into all of this? In fact - thinking about it...
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