Cooking during COVID

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Julie Cook Kitchener Nov 26, 2020 20:23 pm
Hi everyone, For any of you that are working on food-related issues, you may already know that cooking from home has increased significantly since COVID (Statista, 2020; Acosta, …

COP 26 & The Benefits of Climate Action

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Julie Cook Kitchener Nov 18, 2021 18:02 pm
Hi all, As you may know, the latest global climate negotiations at COP 26 in Glasgow have drawn to a close. Though some progress was made, concerns remain about the enormous gap …

Social Marketing for the Environment: Using Information Campaigns to Promote Environmental Awareness and Behavior Change

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Maibach, E. (1993). Social marketing for the environment: Using information campaigns to promote environmental awareness and behavior change. Health Promotion International, 8, 3, 209-224.
Proposes social marketing (SM) as an approach for developing solutions to many environmental problems currently facing the world. The SM approach applies generic marketing and mar…

Do we Know What we Need to Know? Objective and Subjective Knowledge Effects on Pro-Ecological Behaviors. Special Issue: Linking Theory to Policy

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Ellen, P. S. Do we know what we need to know? Objective and subjective knowledge effects on pro-ecological behaviors. Special Issue: Linking theory to policy.. Vol. 30. 1994. 43-52.
307 adults were administered a questionnaire to assess the extent to which Ss possessed the subjective and objective knowledge of the information necessary to choose products with…

Open Access Online Course, "Behaviour Change for Conservation"

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Liz Foote Maui Mar 30, 2021 2:36 am
Just came across this on Twitter via @SMGriffith1; there is an open-access online course available called "Behaviour Change for Conservation." You can find it here. "This open-…

Consumer Concern, Knowledge, Belief, and Attitude toward Renewable Energy: An Application of the Reasoned Action Theory.

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Bang, Hae-Kyong; Ellinger, Alexander E.; Hadjimarcou, John; Traichal, Patrick A. (2000). "Consumer concern, knowledge, belief, and attitude toward renewable energy: An application of the reasoned action theory.". Psychology & Marketing, 17, 6, 449-468.
Using the theory of reasoned action as a theoretical framework, the current research investigates the relationship of concern with the environment, knowledge about renewable e…

Mind the Gap: Why Do People Act Environmentally and What are the Barriers to Pro-Environmental Behavior?

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Kollmuss, A., & Agyeman, J. (2002). Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?. Environmental Education Research, 8(3), 239-260.
Numerous theoretical frameworks have been developed to explain the gap between the possession of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness, and displaying pro-environmen…

Smarter Choices: Assessing the Potential to Achieve Traffic Reduction Using 'Soft Measures'

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Cairns, S., Sloman, L., Newson, C., Anable, J., Kirkbride, A., Goodwin, P. (2008). Smarter choices: Assessing the potential to achieve traffic reduction using 'Soft measures'. Transport Reviews, 28(5), 593-618.
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in a range of transport policy initiatives which are designed to influence people's travel behaviour away from single-occupancy …

Acceptability of Travel Demand Management Measures: The Importance of Problem Awareness, Personal Norm, Freedom, and Fairness

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Eriksson, L., Garvill, J., & Nordlund, A. (2006). Acceptability of travel demand management measures: The importance of problem awareness, personal norm, freedom, and fairness. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 26(1), 15-26. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.05.003.
Acceptability of travel demand management (TDM) with the aim of reducing private car use is modeled following a hierarchical set of beliefs. In a two-part model, pro-environmental…

Evaluating Adult Groundwater Education

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Gerakis, A. (1998). Evaluating adult groundwater education. Journal of Environmental Education, 30, 1, 20-24.
The Michigan Association of Soil Conservation Districts and the Michigan Soil Conservation Service organized a series of 1-day groundwater education workshops throughout Michigan.…

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