May 2009
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Tom Crompton
Responses to Lakoff
Yesterday, I posted a piece by George Lakoff, How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We’ll Save It. Lakoff’s piece, which appeared on Alternet has elicited several responses from others: See, for example, this really helpful and thoughtful reflection from Adrian Ivakhiv, who is Associate Professor of Environmental Thought [...]
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Tom Crompton
How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We’ll Save It
05.20.09 | Permalink | Comments OffEcoAmerica is soon to make public a report on the framing of the environment called “Climate and Energy Truths: Our Common Future”, and this is already proving the subject of heated debate. Here’s George Lakoff’s perspective on the importance of this report: How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We’ll [...]
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Tom Crompton
Plato and the Paradox of Capitalism
05.20.09 | Permalink | Comments OffIn ‘Plato can help us resolve the paradox of capitalism‘, in today’s Guardian, Melissa Lane argues that our task is not so much to find a new balance between our roles as producers (hard-working types) and consumers (shoppers), but rather to question the roles themselves. We need to rediscover the domain of citizenship…
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Joe Brewer
The progressive tribe and improving the world
05.15.09 | Permalink | Comments OffThis is an excerpt from a post at Cognitive Policy Works:
For too long politics has been about preserving our differences. I think its time to change the name of the game. Politics in the 21st Century is going to be built with affinity groups - people who come together around shared interests. Social change is [...] -
Tom Crompton
Shifting values to address climate change
05.15.09 | Permalink | Comments OffPolicies that promote “time affluence,” minimize advertising’s influence on consumers, and prioritize new measurements of development would help shift the world toward values that not only connect to our own wellbeing, but may also help us avert ecological catastrophe, writes Tim Kasser in State of the World 2009.
Read: “Shifting Values in Response to Climate Change” [...] -
Tom Crompton
Effective politicians identity campaign
05.13.09 | Permalink | Comments OffAs Tim Jackson writes in his recent report for the UK Sustainable Development Commission, Prosperity without Growth?, policy makers “may be uncomfortable with the idea that they have a role in influencing people’s values and aspirations. But the truth is that governments intervene constantly in the social context”.
There’s a misconception that engaging social values and [...]
identity campaigning
The profound social and environmental challenges that we confront arise importantly from dominant identities (that is, who we see ourselves as being and the values we collectively express). This site provides a forum for exploring ways in which social values and identity can be engaged. It has been developed as part of WWF-UK's Strategies for Change Project.
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