August 2009

The Archives

Joe Brewer
Why We Are Losing the Global Warming Battle
08.28.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

The climate crisis is huge. We know this. And we are at a critical juncture. Will we continue to corrode our environment until it cannot sustain us? Or will we look to the future and build communities that thrive on nature’s abundance?
Tom Crompton
Monbiot, Kingsnorth and Ecological Collapse
08.20.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth have been slugging it out on ecological collapse. It’s not easy to nail the differences in their viewpoint, but I think they arise at heart from what Paul sees as George’s insistance that the challenges we confront can be met through a modification of liberal capitalist democracy.
Paul characterises this political [...]
Jim Mitchell
Natural England’s One Million Children campaign
08.12.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

You may have heard about Natural England’s One Million Children campaign. This is recognition of the phenomenon that has been mentioned in recent posts- e.g. Richard Louv’s Nature deficit disorder.
What interests me as a practitioner is how identity campaigning could be used in this opportunity. From what I can see on Natural England’s website [...]
Nicolas Ceasar
American Psychology Association - Psychology and Climate Change
08.10.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Now I wonder if anyone has seen the press release on psychology and climate change from the American Psychological Association
It appears the Identity Campaigning work may have passed this group by. Here is the relevant extract:
The task force highlighted some ways that psychology is already working to limit these barriers (to change in reaction to [...]
Tom Crompton
Young black men, money, and identity campaigning
08.10.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

We’ve emphasised that one of the great possibilities offered by identity campaigning is to build new coalitions of groups that are concerned with a wide variety of different issues, but which recognise that the aspects of identity that underpin our engagement on these issues are often common.
Here is a great example of this convergence of [...]
Tom Crompton
A decision-tree for conscientious marketers?
08.03.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about the debate we had on this site a couple of weeks ago about the Ford advert, and Ciaran’s challenge in one of the comments: that, because intrinsic values (such as those used to help sell cars in the advert) are antagonistic to extrinsic values, there is little danger of [...]