reforming environmentalism
Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
You may not like what these guys have to say but at least they are exploring THE toughest climate change question "why after decades of public education and the growth of scientific certainty aren't we doing something to fix climate change?"
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From environmental movement to environmental culture
The role of Stonehouse in the current environmental crisis can be manifold - looking at solutions that are currently achievable, as well as strategizing about long-term solutions, and working towards a greater societal shift towards environmentalism.
Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
The research focus of the CRED is environmental decision making processes, especially those that arise in the course of adaptation to climate variability and mitigation of or adaptation to global climate change. CRED will use research results to design and to evaluate possible decision aids, including tools that facilitate use of scientific information about the natural and social environment and tools that may lead to better group decisions. Other project goals include educational aids to improve undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate studies, outreach in the form of training or information-sharing with individuals and group leaders, and synergistic, integrated research findings.
Yale Project on Climate Change
In October, 2005, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies invited more than 100 leaders and thinkers to spend two days together in Aspen, Colorado. Their charge was to diagnose why, in the face of stronger and stronger science, the United States has been so slow to act on the issue of climate change. The overall objective of the Yale Project on Climate Change is to facilitate implementation of recommendations from that conference. Specific objectives include the following:
Climate Crossroads: A research-based framing guide
In early 2008, global warming advocates came together to begin the process of developing an overarching narrative, or Common Message Platform, to identify the shared ideas, values and explanations that provide the foundation for a national conversation on global warming over the long term. The framing guide that has been developed is informed by several sources, including the experiences of the environmental and climate communities, the thinking of strategic advisors, and a body of research conducted in recent years, as well as new research conducted specifically for this project.
Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?
It has often been noted that levels of knowledge and awareness about environmental issues have dramatically increased over the last two decades.
Global Warming's 6 Americas 2009: An Audience Segmentation Analysis
Drawing on a scientific survey of American climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviors, our research has found that the public falls into six distinct groups – each of which currently engages (or not) with the issue in a unique way. The report introduces the six groups by briefly describing each and highlighting how they differ from one another.
Materialistic Values and Environmental Challenges
Through surveys and interviews with sample populations, the researchers determine that materialistic values have a negative impact on social behaviours.
How On Earth Can We Live Together?
The future of environmental advocacy becomes clear when Canada's environmental heritage is contrasted with Sweden and Denmark's, pinpointing minor changes which can shift from a society where eco-f
RE:Green: Bringing the Ecological Roadmap to Life
A values-based segmentation study, the Ecological Roadmap shows how different segments of the public relate to environmental issues - and why. Most Americans care about the environment but don’t like environmentalists and, increasingly, don’t trust environmental advocacy groups. Nonetheless, the report takes a closer look (through statistics, interviews, and other data) at those Americans who could be a vanguard of environmental behaviour - The Greenest Americans - and their place in an America that also houses the UnGreens.
