Bruce Paton
Preparedness Project Officer, Australian Red Cross
- Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory
- Australia
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Behaviour Change & EMS
2010-03-20 04:00:36 UTC
Hi all.
I'm doing some research into behaviour change programs in the workplace, and in particular how they can be integrated into formal Environmental Management Systems.
Does anyone know of any examples where this has been done and/or research into this field?
Thanks.
Bruce Paton
GreenHome Project Officer
Australian Conservation Foundation
Australia -
Behaviour Change Experts with Experience in Cycling Safety
2009-11-17 19:55:55 UTC
Hi there.
One of my colleagues is looking for a behaviour change consultant to assist with the design of a campaign that aims to educate cyclists on safe and responsible shared path behaviour. He's based in Sydney so an Australian-based consultant would seem most appropriate (although I'm sure he'd be interested in chatting to anyone who has worked on these sorts of programs elsewhere).
Is there anyone who can help him out with this?
Thanks.
Bruce Paton
GreenHome Project Officer
Australian Conservation Foundation
Australia -
Re: Data on Values and Changing to Sustainable Living Habits
2009-07-05 19:59:20 UTC
Hi Darien (and Lidsay)
Some of my colleagues at the Australian Conservation Foundation have been doing some work on the concept of 'wellbeing', in other words, how sustainable societies are also ones with a better quality of life for the people that live in them. They have done some interesting policy work (which you can see at http://www.acfonline.org.au/default.asp?section_id=302) and my team is currently trying to think of ways in which we can utilise these concepts at an individual level - ie: convincing people to be more sustainable so that that they lead lives that are more in tune with their core values.
One interesting (and inspiring) example of what can happen on a community scale is the Kansas town of Greensburg, which was destroyed in a tornado a couple of years ago and has since been rebuilt along sustainable lines. The most interesting aspect of all this is that the town was not a hotbed of environmentalism prior to the event, but rather the residents decided that a sustainable community would be a better one to live in, and be more likely to bring back the young people that had been leaving for bigger cities. Their webpage - http://www.greensburggreentown.org - has lots of info and some great stories that might inspire people and reinforce the sustainability narrative in a resource.
I hope this helps a bit. If you find out more about how to use people's values to change their behaviour please let me know!
Bruce Paton
GreenHome Project Officer
Australian Conservation Foundation
Australia -
Re: CBSM & Transportation
2009-05-12 19:37:01 UTC
Hi Cathy.
You might like to take a look at the Australian Travelsmart program, which uses CBSM principles to get people to change their mode of travel from cars to public transport, cycling or walking. There is an evaluation report (which also goes into the methods they use) at http://www.travelsmart.gov.au/publications/evaluation-2005.html.
The most heartening thing about the report is the evidence that the methods used actually worked - two of the programs were in Western Australia (South Perth and Cambridge, if you're curious) and included evaluation of participants 2 years and 28 months after the programs finished. In both cases the behavour changes that the participants had made during the programs had stuck. Hurrah!
There is also a list of articles and resources related to Travelsmart at http://www.travelsmart.vic.gov.au/Web4%5Ctsmart.nsf/Web+Pages/171771BA4EA8237ECA256D570083B3E4?OpenDocument&CollapseView
Good luck!
Bruce Paton
Australian Conservation Foundation
Bruce Paton
GreenHome Project Officer
Australian Conservation Foundation
Australia -
Re: Northern or Remote Community Cases: Integrated Waste Management
2009-05-06 03:17:38 UTC
Hi Art.
I do sustainability education in Australia, and while we are neither (a) Northerly , or (b) cold [at least not by your standards], the Outback certainly fits the definition of 'remote', so I've looked up a couple of programs that may be of interest to you:
- Desert Knowledge Australia COOLmob, which is an information hub assisting people living in Alice Springs to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Alice Springs is a town of about 25,000 people in the Red Centre, and while it's reasonably large by remote community standards the nearest place of any size is Port Augusta, 1200km to the south. The website for the hub is at http://www.dkacoolmob.org/, and I did see a reference to the more remote community of Tennant Creek [and by the way, in Australia when we say 'mob' we can be referring to any group of people. You don't have to worry about people smashing things and carrying flaming torches :-)]
- Some programs run by a group called BUSH TV in indigenous communities in Cape York - I'm not familiar with them at the moment (I just discovered them in a web search) but the two I found references to were an indigenous community leadership program on Mornington Island and a program called Waterwise that attempts to achieve sustainable town water usage. I found the info at http://www.myrain.com.au/pdf/rainnewsletter1.pdf
If you want to chat or get in contact you can email me at [email protected].
Good luck!
Bruce Paton
GreenHome Project Officer
Australian Conservation Foundation
Australia
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