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The Environment and Cultural Change

The media is littered with information about climate change, carbon emissions, off-setting programmes and the benefits of recycling. Environmental groups are increasingly aware that it is not necessarily a lack of information that contributes to people perpetuating less-than-environmentally-friendly behaviour, but rather it is a result of how people choose to live their lives. There is a growing recognition that different groups require differnt kinds of support, incentives and messages to become 'sustainable consumers'. (BrookLyndhurst)

Unfortunately most of the lifestule decisions that the green moveoemtn seeks to influence are not determined mainly by rational consideration of the facts, but buy emotions, habits, personal preferences, fashions, social norms, personal morals and values, peer pressure and other intangibles. The painting the town green report suggests that "to influence lifestyle choices we must connect with the heart, senses and emotions rather than the head and its brain cells" (p. 6)

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.pdf Discussion Paper - The Environment and Cultural Change 58 KB Download
.pdf Position Paper - The environment and Cultural Change 39 KB Download
.pdf Brook Lyndhurst response to Green-Engage Green Thinkers questions 184 KB Download
.pdf Bad Habits and Hard Choices - In search of sustainable lifestyles 1361 KB Download
.pdf Painting the Town Green - How to persuade people to be environmentally friendly 855 KB Download
.doc Climate Change: Cultural Change - Essay by Dr. Malcolm Miles 74 KB Download
.pdf Climate Change and the Historic Environment 1118 KB Download
.pdf Biomass Energy and the Historic Environment 1004 KB Download
.pdf Wind Energy and the Historic Environment 1192 KB Download
.pdf Mind Over Matter Greening the new economy 94 KB Download
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