Hi everyone,
I’m super excited to be implementing a composting initiative at my local elementary school. I’m using techniques from Doug’s book, but I wanted to know everyone’s initial thoughts on best practices for the following areas.
- promoting social norms, and social diffusion.
- Creating effective messages/communication
- incentives
I have a few ideas, but would love to hear what has worked for others. Thank you for any input you may have.
Meg Martineau
I can offer you two journal articles that may be useful. The first one is a 2015 Open Access article about CBSM and social norms. You will find that article attached. The second one is a well-known and often-cited 2014 article by Wes Schultz about the contexts in which it is best to use certain CBSM tools, such as incentives and education. That article is not open access, but here is the link in case you'd like to purchase it. If purchasing is a barrier for you, please email me at jcook@uwaterloo.ca and I'll see what I can do.
I hope this is helpful.
Kind regards,
Julie