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Climate Dialogues: Seattle
The Greater Seattle Climate Dialogues is a campaign of community learning and discussion that begins with small group dialogues (in neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, etc.) and will culminate in a Citizen's Climate Summit.
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Citizen Science and Social Learning
How important is the role of “dialog among diverse participants” in creating social change?
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Happiness Can Spread Like a Contagion, Study Indicates | WaPo
Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses like the flu, according to a large study that for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters of people who may not even know each other.
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Digital Media Come of Age | Media Re:public
The euphoria over the rise of participatory media has been tempered by concerns.
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Community-Based Social Marketing
Articles, cases and listserv threads on fostering sustainable behavior are organized on this new website.
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Behavioral Change | Climate Leadership Initiative
This report highlights some of the relevant research on behavioral change and GHG reductions in three domains: energy use, transportation, and water consumption.
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Bart Wilson: Fair's Fair | The Atlantic
For the past 25 years experimental economists--of which I am one--have been infatuated with a pie-splitting problem known as the Ultimatum Game.
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Capitol Climate Action
This will be a peaceful demonstration, carried out in a spirit of hope and not rancor. We will be there in our dress clothes, and ask the same of you.
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Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges: Israel, Palestine, and the Power of Apology
Absolutists were considerably more inclined to accept deals that involved their enemies making symbolic but difficult gestures.
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Yochai Benkler: The Collaborative Company | McKinsey What Matters
Peer production and other forms of collaboration reverse break down the barrier between the market self and the social self.
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Matthew Nisbet: Communicating Climate Change | Environment
If major policy change is to be achieved, new meanings and messengers for climate change are needed.
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Richard Conniff: Promoting Greener Choices | e360
Behavioral economics is the theory behind a variety of measures now being promoted by environmental groups, power companies, and green businesses.
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Jonathan Haidt on Moral Impulses | Miller-McCune
Haidt identified five foundational moral impulses: harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, in-group loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity.
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Glossary of Climate Adaptation and Decision-Making
Terminology related to climate adapatation, risk, uncertainty and decision-making, adapted from the UK Climate Impacts Programme.
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Glossary of Climate Adaptation and Decision-Making
Terminology related to climate adapatation, risk, uncertainty and decision-making, adapted from the UK Climate Impacts Programme.
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Matthew Nisbet: Framing Climate Change
Nisbet examines research on frames that reoccur across science-related policy debates and applies them to a discussion of climate change.
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Matthew Nisbet: Framing Climate Change
Nisbet examines research on frames that reoccur across science-related policy debates and applies them to a discussion of climate change.
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Climate Crossroads | Social Capital Project and Topos Partnership
What are the "first principles" for any who would seek to communicate with others about climate change?
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Global Warming’s Six Americas
These six audience segments describe a spectrum of concern and action about global warming, ranging from the Alarmed (18% of the population), to the Concerned (33%), Cautious (19%), Disengaged (12%), Doubtful (11%) and Dismissive (7%).
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Global Warming’s Six Americas
These six audience segments describe a spectrum of concern and action about global warming, ranging from the Alarmed (18% of the population), to the Concerned (33%), Cautious (19%), Disengaged (12%), Doubtful (11%) and Dismissive (7%).
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