Category Archives: Climate change

Applying Common Cause To EU Climate Jargon

This is a post from Eivind Hoff, who has been bringing together Common Cause conversations in Brussels. What values do typical texts on EU climate change-motivated policy activate and how can we change them? That was the focus of the … Read more

By Casper ter Kuile on March 15, 2012 with No Comments

Do we have time to shift values?

“Do we have time to shift values?” This is a question that is often asked when people respond to Common Cause. This blog, itself an expansion of the FAQ question of the same title, offers a response. Clearly, we don’t … Read more

By Tom Crompton on February 16, 2012 with 1 Comment

DECC report on ‘energy behaviour’

A new paper from DECC forms the basis of their Customer Insight Team’s capacity-building on behaviour change. Drawing on Common Cause, it reviews evidence from behavioural economics, social psychology and sociology on different ways of  “changing energy behaviour”. The report … Read more

By Tom Crompton on January 3, 2012 with No Comments

Talks on carbon emissions not enough: governments must lead a shift in values, says new report

The transition to a sustainable economy will require governments to understand how policy and rhetoric impact public concern about environment and development issues, according to a report from think tank ResPublica published today. The 56-page report is being launched to … Read more

By Guy Shrubsole on December 14, 2011 with 2 Comments

Campaign Case Study: The Otesha Project

This second Campaign Case Study is part of a series of stories that will share the experience of organisations that grasp the importance of cultural values in third sector campaigning. We hope that these real-life examples of transformation inspire and … Read more

By Casper ter Kuile on December 12, 2011 with 3 Comments

New report from Friends of the Earth US and Psychologists for Social Responsibility

On September 23 and 24, 2010, nearly two dozen activists and psychologists gathered at the offices of Friends of the Earth in Washington, D.C., to explore how to productively apply research and insights from psychology to inspire and empower real, … Read more

By Tom Crompton on February 26, 2011 with No Comments

George Monbiot on Common Cause

George Monbiot writes on Common Cause in today’s Guardian.

By Tom Crompton on October 12, 2010 with 1 Comment

The Carbon Detox: How far will materialism get us?

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. I spent Saturday at a meeting on the psychological and political challenge of facing climate change at UWE. George Marshall delivered the opening lecture – in witty and thought-provoking style. … Read more

By Tom Crompton on March 9, 2009 with No Comments

The New Politics of Climate change

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. Stephen Hale, Director of the Green Alliance, published a report yesterday which calls for a new approach to the politics of climate change. It highlights the problem of the three-way … Read more

By Tom Crompton on November 28, 2008 with No Comments

The ideology of simple painless steps

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. I’ve spent the last two days at a conference for environmental communicators, Communicate 08. There was a recurrent issue which ran through the whole conference – about the strategies that … Read more

By Tom Crompton on October 29, 2008 with 3 Comments
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