Marketing strategies and product design employed by major tech companies put profit before sustainability.
Marketing, technology and consumerism Liz Lee Reynolds | 26th February 2019 News Marketing Science & Systems 8211477646_5878e4c394_b.jpg Marketing strategies and product design employed by major tech …
Evolutionary psychology demonstrates an innate preference for social learning and 'niche construction' that can help us understand the drive towards direct action and citizen assemblies.
… News Cultural Evolution Extinction Rebellion Psychology Science & Systems … Evolutionary psychology demonstrates an innate preference … every part of the world. As evolutionary psychology has shown over decades, much of our …
If we are to build a regenerative culture, ours is not to only jump at deadlines; we must cast out lifelines.
… to salve our desperate itch for optimism. Psychology and spirituality I first wrestled … published in The Ecologist , it tackled the psychology that drives the consumerism that, …
Wildlife exists by way of an evolved, synergistic machinery of incidental compassion and 'biological optimism' that is thrown off-balance by human intervention.
… | 20th May 2019 News Nature Animals Wildlife Psychology Thought Leaders … The synergism of physiology, behaviour and psychology in nature variously configures to …
Spontaneity and kindness can become part of the 'machinery of care'.
Humanising the machinery of care Charlie Jones Martin Seager | 18th March 2019 | News Care Healthcare Resurgence & Ecologist under_humanising.jpg Spontaneity and kindness can become part of the …
Could 'the bystander effect' explain public inaction on climate change?
… 2nd January 2019 Comment IPCC Climate Justice Psychology Sociology … of the most replicable phenomena in social psychology: “the bystander effect”. The … Petersen has a BSc in Biology, an MSc in Psychology and a Post Graduate Certificate in …
Green solutions to noise reduction could improve our mental and physical wellbeing.
Shout out for peace and quiet James Curran | 7th March 2019 News Noise Pollution Thought Leaders fullsizeoutput_7e.jpeg Green solutions to noise reduction could improve our mental and physical …
The restorative power of laughter Joe Hoare | 14th March 2019 | Comment Laughter Yoga Resurgence & Ecologist web_joe_hoare.jpg How to overcome fear with a special form of yoga. We are living in …
A team of researchers from across Europe are praising the transformative impacts of forests on mental health.
Forest visits and mental health Staff Reporter | 17th May 2019 News Forests Mental Health latvian_forest_tomes_pagasts_keguma_novads_latvia.jpg A team of researchers from across Europe are praising …
How does flooding affect our day-to-day lives, anxieties and imaginations?
Travels through a sodden landscape Edward Platt | 29th August 2019 News Flooding 46576012435_aa72ef261d_o.jpg How does flooding affect our day-to-day lives, anxieties and imaginations? When I started …
The British Ecological Society has published a new book on rewilding.
Rewilding and human nature Brendan Montague | 6th February 2019 News Rewilding Science & Systems forest-972792_960_720.jpg The British Ecological Society has published a new book on rewilding. …
Greta Thunburg, 16, will take over the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme during the Christmas and New Year period.
Radio Greta Sherna Noah | 25th November 2019 News Change Makers Climate Breakdown Radio Greta Greta Thunberg Today Programme BBC 33744056568_9e8eed289c_c.jpg Greta Thunburg, 16, will take over the …
An extract from This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire, and What Lies Beyond.
'Civilisation is finished' Rupert Read Samuel Alexander | 28th June 2019 News Thought Leaders Degrowth Ecological Civilisation Empire Civilisation 34077455041_efecd1dc03_b.jpg An extract from This …
Old and young must unite to form Generation S - a force to combat corporate gigantism and to shape cultural and social revolutions.
Generation symbiocene Glenn Albrecht | 8th March 2019 News Generations Gen Z Symbiosis Science & Systems img_2325_2.jpg Old and young must unite to form Generation S - a force to combat corporate …
Indigenous Sapara people are resisting oil extractivism and building the case for protecting 30 million hectares of the Amazon.
Resistance and rebuilding in the Amazon Ashish Kothari | 17th September 2019 News Amazon Rainforest Sapara Indigenous People Ecuador International Editor’s Picks …
Why do some environmental issues appeal to the popular imagination more than others?
Turning the tide of public opinion Anna Turns | 15th March 2019 | Comment Plastic Pollution Resurgence & Ecologist Activism under_turning.jpg Why do some environmental issues appeal to the popular …
We need a rich and precise vocabulary to articulate the changing relationships between our sense of place and our emotional and biophysical health.
Symbiocene emotions Glenn Albrecht | 28th March 2019 News Symbiocene Emotions picture1.png We need a rich and precise vocabulary to articulate the changing relationships between our sense of place …