The Waste Game

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Julie Cook Kitchener May 4, 2026 12:33 pm
Hi all, As you develop your programs, you may be looking for online educational tools that impart knowledge on waste prevention and recycling. Waste games are one way to do just t…

How framing behaviors can solve the ecological crisis

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Julie Cook Kitchener Nov 18, 2024 13:58 pm
Hi all,   What if we understood our current ecological crisis as a “Human Behavioral Crisis”? That is how researchers, Merz et al (2023), have described it. In their paper, they a…

Switzerland’s bike to work campaign: Fun, easy, and popular

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Julie Cook Kitchener May 13, 2024 12:41 pm
Hi all,   The social marketing discipline has long held this truism that sustainable behaviours should be fun, easy, and popular. Switzerland’s bike to work campaign is all of tho…
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