Five tried and tested ideas to inspire action on environmental problems, informed by our appraisal report ‘Where now for the environment movement?’

A new guide for arts and cultural organizations encouraging and enabling action in promoting positive values and creating community.

Practical introduction to the importance of values and frames, highlighting ways in which charity communications and campaigns can engage and strengthen specific values. Contact us if you'd like a hard copy - it's free, though we ask for a contribution to the costs of postage.

An appraisal of the last decade of environmental communications and campaigns - and ideas to inspire action, from the perspective of an understanding of human values.

A short overview of our work in Greater Manchester - launched in collaboration with the Manchester Museum and Creative Concern.

Outcomes from research conducted jointly by disability charity Scope and environmental charity WWF, suggesting that a values-based approach grounded in intrinsic values could help build a stronger movement for change, even across apparently disconnected causes.

Exploring the values that members of the European Network of Equality Bodies express in their work, this report explores how these could be better aligned with the values that will ensure that people across Europe are motivated to live in acceptance of one another.

How do arts and culture impact on our values, what might that look like in practice, and how might new collaborations between artists, cultural institutions and the third sector create new ideas for development?

Practical recommendations for the conservation sector and others on how to ensure their work strengthens the values that motivate people to protect and enjoy nature.

Through analysis of the external communications of leading conservation organizations, supplemented with interviews, workshops and surveys, this report explores the values the sector promotes in its communications, campaigns and other activities.

Summarizes the results of research into expressions of social and environmental concern by people who attach greater importance to extrinsic values, and explores the effects of priming them with intrinsic values before interviewing them about social and environmental issues.

This report argues that governments, left and right, must lead a shift in values if we are to transition to a sustainable economy, adopting an approach to policy making that taps into the cultural values of people and their communities.

Examines the evidence that advertising could exacerbate social and environmental problems by promoting and normalising a range of behaviours, attitudes and values, many of which are socially and environmentally damaging.

A clear, concise and easily-digestible summary of the relevant research on values and frames and its implications, emphasizing the importance of civil organizations working together to foster more 'intrinsic' values in society.

The author highlights some of the ways in which civil society communications, campaigns, and even government policy, can work to activate and strengthen helpful 'intrinsic' values, while working to diminish the importance of unhelpful 'extrinsic' values.

The authors reveal that some environmental campaigning inadvertently operates to frustrate the very approaches they need to inspire to meet environmental challenges, and points to ways to activate more helpful aspects of identity.

Do "simple and painless" first steps in behavior change "spillover" into ever more ambitious behaviors? The authors conclude that this is an unreliable approach, but highlight some of the conditions under which it’s more likely to work.

With the scale of environmental challenges deepening, the author critically reassesses current approaches to motivating environmentally-friendly behaviour change, and constructs the case for a radically different approach.

We review key findings from a 2017 survey in Greater Manchester which explored people's values and how they voted in the EU referendum; explore possible reasons for the success of the Leave campaign; and share implications for the ongoing Brexit debate.

How does the way we value food link to the social health of our communities, and how do our own choices affect the way the food system works? And how can a values-led approach connect different actors within the food industry?

Do governments shape citizen values? And more than the other way round? Eivind Hoff-Elimari, researcher at the Research Council of Norway, discusses his recent peer-reviewed research suggesting they do.

The results of a small survey of psychologists on the key point of difference between the Common Cause and Value Modes approaches.

A Common Cause briefing on the value-action gap, by Professor Greg Maio from the School of Psychology at Cardiff University.