alliance-building
Emergence Persuasion
Traditional methods of promoting environmental awareness and supporting the need for eco-minded initiatives have been unsuccessful in fostering longterm change. The narrative of climate change must become one which induces people to change their behaviour quickly.
Using existing networks for environmental change
There are many divergent strands of the environmental community, and instead of focusing on coming up with new solutions, there should be a focus on creating alliances between these diverse networks and organizations. Stonehouse aims to be a gathering place where experts can forge new, more effective ways to work together.
Excerpt from Do The Right Thing: Dialogue
An excerpt from Chapter 6 of my book "Do the Right Thing" Dialogue: Successful Conversations, Even Public Conversations, Have to Go Two Ways
- Jim Hoggan's blog
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Visions of a Sustainable World
Dear Friends, I’m delighted to share with you the online video launch of our new “Visions of a Sustainable World” lecture series.
Dedicated to inspiring visions of a sustainable world and practical strategies to achieve it, the lecture series was inaugurated this Spring by Dr. Paul Raskin, the President of the Tellus Institute and a Director of the Great Transition Initiative. Dr. Raskin presented a provocative “history from the future” – a look back at how global sustainability was achieved, from the vantage point of the year 2084.
Our second speaker was Alex Steffen, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Worldchanging and Editor of Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. He spoke about "Building a Bright Green Future That Works," on the emerging tools available to create sustainable, prosperous communities.
Both lectures are available via Yale's YouTube channel:
- Tony Leiserowitz's blog
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Goran Carstedt on the Responsibility Capacity Index and fostering relevant climate solutions
Dr. Carstedt briefly explains the Responsibility Capacity Index (RCI), and what it means for Canada, as well as other developed nations. With these facts at our disposal it becomes clear that there must be domestic reductions in emissions, but also support for environmentally friendly development in less developed nations.
Institute for Environmental Decisions
The aim of IED is to analyze individual and collective decisions in the context of natural resource utilization and environmental problems. Furthermore, IED strives to support private and political decision makers to achieve sustainability in the face of today’s risks and uncertainties. Management issues affecting climate change present a prominent example of decisions that have traditionally been made on a very weak basis of knowledge about future states of the world. IED focuses on research as well as on teaching at different levels.
http://www.ied.ethz.ch/
Climate Decision Making Center
The uncertainty in climate change and our energy future remains and is likely to remain even with more research. If policy makers are to do anything about global warming, they will have to make decisions now, in spite of the uncertainty. At the Climate Decision Making Center (CDMC), researchers are studying the limits in our understanding of climate change, its impacts, and the strategies that might be perused to mitigate and adapt to change. CDMC investigators are creating, illustrating, and evaluating decision strategies and tools for policy makers that incorporate such uncertainties. Through the spin-off CCSReg project, we also have collaboration with the Univeristy of Minnesota, the Vermont Law School and the law firm of VanNess Feldman.
http://cdmc.epp.cmu.edu/
http://www.ccsreg.org/
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change through trans-disciplinary research and dialogue on both a national and international level - not just within the research community, but also with business leaders, policy advisors, the media and the public in general. This will require us to: i) engage widely with stakeholders in public and private sector organisations; ii) collaborate closely, and/or form strategic partnerships, with researchers outside the Centre in the UK, Europe and globally; and iii) listen carefully to the perceptions and aspirations of all peoples in relation to the risks created by climate change.
http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/
The Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems. Guided by science, Environmental Defense Fund evaluates environmental problems and works to create and advocate solutions that win lasting political, economic and social support because they are nonpartisan, cost-efficient and fair.
http://www.edf.org/home.cfm
League of Conservation Voters
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is turning environmental values into national priorities. To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV’s mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies. We educate the public, build coalitions, promote grassroots power, and train the next generation of environmental leaders as part of our grassroots efforts.
http://www.lcv.org/
