behavior change Archives - resilience

Learning from the pandemic: lessons for unnecessary travel and overconsumption

Nicky Saunter — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:25:24 +0000

This post introduces the Reset series – a collection of briefings on lessons from the global pandemic on two vital areas for rapid transition: overconsumption and unnecessary travel.

Maximum Power and Scarcity, or… the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach (Episode 46 of Crazy Town)

Asher Miller — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:17:56 +0000

The “maximum power principle” may sound like the doctrine of an evil supervillain, but it actually applies to all living creatures. The principle states that biological systems organize to increase power whenever constraints allow.

Come Plog With Me. (Yes, Litter Matters. A Lot.)

Karen Lynn Allen — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:58:46 +0000

I encourage you to join me in plogging or plalking. First off, plogging and plalking is good for you! I’ve written many times before about the benefits of walking and walkable neighborhoods.

Smoking by any other Name

Sean Di Lizio — Mon, 21 May 2018 11:25:14 +0000

In the face of ever-worsening climate change[1], constant updates from the media on how quickly the Arctic is melting[2], and an utter failure of our society to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions (rather, we’re still increasing them[3), why do we continue to fly when few other activities in our lives create more emissions?

Climate Strange

Eve Andrews — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:58:58 +0000

As much as policy shapes behavior, a mass shift in behavior can push policy and change the world. The shift has to start somewhere — and it starts with the weirdos.

How can we engage and empower people in environmental action?

John E. Petersen — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 01:47:00 +0000

In recent years a fundamentally new class of technologies – made possible by developments in hardware, software and networking and informed by social psychology – are enabling the emergence of novel forms of feedback on resource consumption and environmental quality.

Foreward from Notes to Nowhere

Patrick Noble — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:08:00 +0000

The illusion that progress will solve the problems of the future is presented to obscure the ancient truth that future-problems are created by the present.

“When people get together, things happen”: Transition Streets hits Australia!

Rob Hopkins — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:08:00 +0000

Transition Streets was initiated by Transition Town Totnes in 2010 and won the 2011 Ashden Award for Behaviour Change.

Designer Currencies and Behaviour Change

Graham Barnes — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 03:52:00 +0000

A delegate to the recent Community Currencies conference in The Hague proposed that changing behaviour should be the ‘fourth function of money’, so it may be timely to explore the implications of this line of thinking a little further.