We Need to Change the Way We Talk about Climate Change
The way we talk about climate change burns and bums people out. Here’s what we should do instead.
Environment
“Urgency and Agency”: Michael Mann on Conquering Climate Despair
The fossil fuel industry has come up with sneaky new tactics to keep us from acting on climate change. Michael Mann shows us how to identify (and overcome) their anticlimate strategies.
To Scale Behavior Change: Target Early Adopters, Then Leverage Social Proof and Social Pressure
How do you change behavior when the stakes are high and rewards uncertain? For a group fostering sustainable farming in Colombia, the key was understanding who was resistant and why, then tapping into social proof and social pressure at the right times.
How Cape Town Used Behavioral Science to Beat Its Water Crisis
Changing behavior was the only choice to address the water shortfall and drought that almost turned the taps off in Cape Town.
If You Care About the Environment, Stop Feeling Guilty. Feel Angry Instead.
After years of trying to contort myself into a sustainable lifestyle and feeling guilt when I failed, I realize that I never had a chance.
Changing Lives to Create A Sustainable World: A Lesson from Selayar Island
Beneath the science of behavior change are real stories and real lives. We must never lose focus of the value changing behavior can have to a community or an individual.