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When science goes green
Laboratories are some of the most resource-intensive places within universities. Energy and water use, chemical waste, single-use materials and equipment replacement all have a negative environmental impact. How can behavioral interventions help scientists go greener?
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When science goes green
Laboratories are some of the most resource-intensive places within universities. Energy and water use, chemical waste, single-use materials and equipment replacement all have a negative environmental impact. How can behavioral interventions help scientists go greener?
A fossil-fuel advertising ban is symbolic, and symbols really matter
The proliferation of ads for cheap air holidays and cruises can lull us into thinking that everyone does it, and can leave people who are trying to live more sustainably feeling like their efforts won’t amount to much against that critical mass of high emissions behavior.
Climate action and the coalition: betting on technology without changing demand or getting citizens involved is a missed opportunity
Insights from environmental psychology research can set up the coalition’s plans for greater acceptability and success, and set up The Netherlands for a more sustainable and just future free from fossil fuels.
Public perceptions and acceptability of sustainable transitions depend on who is developing them, how they’re developing and when the public is involved
Professor Goda Perlaviciute shares her research insights on public acceptability of sustainable projects, and how public trust depends on who is the developer is, how it is being developed, and how (and how soon) the general public is involved in the decision-making process.
Values rise to the top in Dutch National Climate Citizens Assembly
Values like the importance of listening to citizens, and to each other, engaging everyone, and ensuring that polluters pay emerged over the months of meetings by the 175 participants in the Dutch National Climate Citizens' Assembly.
