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Flock Together
New climate campaign aimed at U.S. consumers |
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05 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:30 PM on 05 Jun 2008 A European campaign to raise consumer awareness of climate change has made its U.S. debut. The Together campaign -- not to be confused with the similarly named-and-agendaed "we" campaign -- was initiated by the nonprofit Climate Group and kicked off in the U.S. by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Var ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, consumerism, environmental movement, green living, messaging, news (all these topics) |
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The alternative to fear is not lack of emotion
How best to pitch the climate change message? |
David Roberts |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Mike Hulme of the UK's Tyndall Centre says -- yet again -- that the language of "catastrophe" and "disaster" used by climate-change scientists and advocates is having the opposite of its intended effect: it's making people numb and apathetic. I more or less buy this -- I did, after all, write a five-part series arguing that fear is no friend of greens. But the conclusion Tim Haab draws from it is so spectacularly, diametrically wrong I can only sh ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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No sweat solutions to global warming: a series
A reintroduction |
Gar Lipow |
16 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'm restarting my series on solutions to global warming, both on how to phase out fossil fuels and the best means to sequester carbon, because I consider the topic a critical one. The carbon lobby has mostly (not entirely) given up disputing that global warming is occurring. They know that they won't be able to confuse the public on its human-caused nature much longer. But a final stalling tactic is open to deniers -- to pretend that nothing can be done, or at lea ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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Scientists and social power
They've got it, they shouldn't be ashamed of using it |
David Roberts |
13 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In a previous post, I argued that the public doesn't particularly need a sophisticated scientific understanding of climate change (or evolution, or stem cells) in order to make the right basic policy decisions. A rudimentary understanding, deliverable and understandable by a layman, is perfectly sufficient. We're warming the climate? It's gonna hurt us? Let's stop. Bada-bing, bada-boom. Given this, and given the fact that such rudimentary explanations of the science ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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'Climate change': too big and too little
It's the wrong lever for creating social change |
David Roberts |
03 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| On Saturday night, I was on a panel at the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival on the subject of "communicating about climate change." My co-panelists were KC Golden of Climate Solutions, LeeAnne Beres of Earth Ministry, and Sean Schmidt of the Sustainable Style Foundation. The moderator was Steve Scher of local public radio station KUOW. It was fun. Most of what I said had to do with the following mini-revelation that came to me as I was walking to the ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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TIME's survival guide to global warming
Lots o' good stuff therein |
David Roberts |
02 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This week's TIME has a big package of stories on global warming. Upping the ante on the de rigueur '10 things you can do,' the magazine offers a whopping 51, an odd mix of large structural reforms and consumer tips like drying your clothes on a clothesline. Coming in at No. 1? Ethanol. Oy. Then again, a carbon tax comes in at No. 5, so all is not lost. Also earning the DR thumbs up: geothermal heat, urban living, cutting down on meat, supporting farmers markets, and ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental movement, green living, messaging (all these topics) |
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