Category Archives: Green consumerism

Opening the ethical debates in advertising

We’ve suggested elsewhere that there are two broad categories of response to Common Cause. The first is to focus on the implications for the campaigns and communications that we are already producing: how might we campaign on biodiversity conservation, or … Read more

By Tom Crompton on October 25, 2011 with 5 Comments

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 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

Recycling for free flights

A couple from Hampshire cash in on Tesco’s offer to provide free air-miles in exchange for recycling: a particularly vivid example of rebound, when the use of the financial rewards from doing something ‘green’ totally undermines any environmental benefits of … Read more

By Tom Crompton on October 6, 2008 with No Comments

Do The Green Thing gets real

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. Do The Green Thing has long been urging subscribers to take the lift rather than the stairs, or to turn the lights off early every so often. All good stuff; … Read more

By Tom Crompton on May 6, 2008 with 2 Comments

Yale’s Gus Speth calls for shift from U.S. consumer capitalism to solve environmental problems

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. The story may be familiar, but look who’s saying it. Speth was founder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute. Will shifting from a GDP-driven … Read more

By Tom Crompton on April 23, 2008 with 1 Comment

David Orr on authentic experience

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. David Orr on the extinction of authentic experience, at the hands of the marketing industry. His call is to reclaim authentic experience amongst the young – by which he means … Read more

By Tom Crompton on April 17, 2008 with 1 Comment

New WWF report: ‘Weathercocks and Signposts’

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. A new WWF report, Weathercocks and Signposts: The Environment Movement at a Crossroads, critically reassesses current approaches to motivating environmentally-friendly behaviour change. Current behaviour-change strategies are increasingly built upon analogy … Read more

By Tom Crompton on April 15, 2008 with 9 Comments

Sir Martin Sorrell on deliberate obsolescence

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the global marketing group WPP, recently called for an end to deliberate obsolescence, citing Apple as a prime example of a company that exploits … Read more

By Tom Crompton on April 1, 2008 with 8 Comments

Branson’s coconuts

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. The climate change debate is forever mired in statistics (or what George Bush would call ‘fuzzy math’). But it seems that in the last couple of days one number has … Read more

By Tom Crompton on February 26, 2008 with 3 Comments
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