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Events
The Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group regularly invites guest speakers from various fields of expertise feeding into the work of SLRG. There are no forthcoming lunchtime seminars scheduled at the moment, but please check at a later time for updates.
Past
Seminar, 07 October 2013
Chris Rapley
This seminar provides an update on the state of the evidence for human-induced climate change and will addresses the issue of climate dismissal: Why is it happening and what can be done to turn around an increasingly unhelpful situation?..Read more
Seminar, 27 June 2013
John Ashton
A rapid transition to a carbon neutral energy system across the major economies - and thus a successful response to climate change - cannot be accomplished within the current growth model. A high degree of intervention will be required but there are no historic analogues for its nature, scale or intensity. In other words we have a broken compass and no map. What is to be done?
The manifold forms of climate change denial in British Civil Society, and what they tell about how we might swiftly change behaviour
Seminar, 19 June 2013
Dr Jonathan Rowson
A forthcoming report from RSA's Social Brain Centre will reveal the full spectrum of climate change denial in the UK. In his talk Dr Rowson will try to integrate some of the findings with a perspective on behaviour change, which includes reflections on the values modes/common cause debate, a fresh perspective on the rebound effect from the adult development literature, and some proposals for action research projects designed to link climate action more directly to the population's concern for family, health and home...Read more
Implications for environmental sustainability
Seminar, 15 May 2013
Sue Venn and Kate Burningham
This presentation is seeking to contribute to the debates on the implications of an ageing population on the environment through an understanding of the everyday, but largely invisible and embedded, consumption practices of grocery shopping by ‘baby boomers’ as they move into and through retirement...Read more
Seminar, 24 April 2013
Trewin Restorick
»What I am glad we did and what I wish we hadn’t!«
Since its creation Global Action Plan has run practical environmental behaviour change programmes engaging over 730,000 people in the UK. In this candid look back over the past two decades, Trewin considers the things that have worked well as well as those that didn’t and pulls out the key learnings that could help inform the development of new behaviour change programmes in the future...Read more
Seminar, 19 March 2013
Dr Rachel Howell
The role of personal values, climate change communications and carbon allowances in processes of change
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with individuals’ lifestyles are a significant proportion of the UK total. This seminar offers an overview of several linked projects that aim to further understanding of how to promote behavioural changes that will reduce those emissions...Read more
