Author Archives: Renee Lertzman

Renee Lertzman

About Renee Lertzman

I am a PhD researcher at Cardiff University and a Fellow with the Biodiversity Project, an environmental communications organisation in Chicago. My work concerns the topic of apathy and what facilitates pro-active responses to chronic ecological issues, and my Ph.D., “The Myth of Apathy” is based on a case study of Green Bay, Wisconsin. I am also a journalist and an environmental communications consultant, and will begin a post-doctoral fellowship at Portland State University with the Centre for Sustainable Processes and Practices in January 2010

The dispassionate heart, or the heart in denial?

This blog was originally posted on Identity Campaigning. There has been a recent spate of opinion pieces, bemoaning the lack of passion, heart, emotion and related ‘affective’ aspects of how we (public, leadership, etc) are responding to the urgent pressures concerning … Read more

By Renee Lertzman on October 19, 2009 with No Comments

Is this the ultimate in green marketing?

This blog was originally posted at Identity Campaigning. Here’s Ford’s new car advert, featuring unborn animals. It’s really quite powerful, because it at once reduces anxieties (by affirming our connection with the source of life, species, vital energies), and suggests the … Read more

By Renee Lertzman on July 15, 2009 with 16 Comments

Reframing the “debate”: Lakoff and Brulle

This blog was originally posted at Identity Campaigning. One of the things I was most struck by in the recent public discussions surrounding the NY Times piece, Lakoff’s response in AlterNet (and subsequently Bob Brulle’s response on the environmental communication network … Read more

By Renee Lertzman on June 20, 2009 with 3 Comments