Behaviour Change Solutions to unsustainable consumption

Behaviour Change Solutions to unsustainable consumption

Social incentives as a solution A large section of the population are concerned about the environment and the effects of climate change (Pirani and Secondi, 2011) although environmental knowledge or concern are not sufficient for stimulating eco-friendly behaviour (Sorqvist et al, 2016; Schanes et al, 2018; Taufique et al, 2016). On the production side additional …

Sustainability from the Psychological Perspective

Sustainability from the Psychological Perspective

The human race as a collective group is not acting in its own long-term interest. With each year that passes, we are getting further away from many of the sustainability goals, putting the survival of the species at risk and, contrary to our fundamental programming, reducing the viability of our descendants from continuing out lineage. …

Sustainability in Philosophy

Sustainability in Philosophy

Can the thinkers of the past teach us anything about 21st century existential threat. As the means to significantly degrade our existence has only been in our hands for a relatively short-time, and the problems springing from our genetic programming to consume and innovate are only being discovered incrementally, the great thinkers of the past …