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Why We Are Losing the Global Warming Battle
08.28.09 | Permalink | 7 CommentsThe 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?
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Unpacking Identity for Environmental Campaigns
07.29.09 | Permalink | Comments OffThere seems to be a need to unpack the layers of identity in order to see how they fit into environmental campaigns. When Tom Crompton and Tim Kasser wrote Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity, they clearly had many things in mind. It strikes me that the caliber of conversation we’ve had so [...]
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Values and Experience in Environmental Campaigns
07.01.09 | Permalink | 8 CommentsAt Identity Campaigning, we talk a lot about values and how they pertain to the sense of identity that people have. What we haven’t talked much about - yet - is the central role of experience in the expression of values… especially as they emerge in environmental campaigns.
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On Lakoff and the Importance of Meaning
06.08.09 | Permalink | Comments OffI would like to build on Tom’s recent post about the debate unfolding around George Lakoff’s new article, How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We’ll Save It. Lakoff is a former colleague of mine (we worked together at the now defunct Rockridge Institute) and I am intimately familiar with [...]
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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 [...]
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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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