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Turning teenagers on to the benefits of being green. Most teenagers want to be considered "cool". But do they also want to be thought of as green – in the environmental sense of the word, that is? Trying to make greenness equate with cool is the focus of a new three-year research project involving five British universities sharing £1.5m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The scheme has been christened Teddi, which doesn't sound particularly cool, but does condense into a handy acronym the stated aims of Transforming Energy Demand through Digital Innovation. Parents may yet be inadvertent beneficiaries of the scheme – the ones who follow teenage offspring around the house, switching off lights, computers, televisions, mobile chargers and hairdryers, while still receiving electricity bills only slightly lower than the gross national product of Albania. "Most teenagers are non-bill-paying consumers," says the project leader, Dr Janet Read, a computer scientist at the University of Central Lancashire.
Changing Behaviour EU-project. Do environmentalists hold back sustainable lifestyles? | Environment. Who wants a sustainable lifestyle? Well actually quite a lot of people, apparently. Far from being a niche concept, a major new study on sustainability from the UNEP says the idea is 'misunderstood as a rich nation choice'. While the desire to enjoy western living standards is strong, the study picks out a range of sustainable living ideas being developed across the world. It says one of the biggest barriers to more people achieving them may be how we celebrate and communicate these ideas. Most definitions of sustainable lifestyles talk about three key areas; minimal environmental impact, not undermining the carrying capacity of resources (i.e. using only those that are renewable or replaceable over time) and helping people interact with the communities and places in which they live.
But, as the UNEP study points out, 'people will only change their lifestyles in exchange for a better one', so perhaps a fourth point could be just as important: making them desirable. L’étude des comportements peut-elle permettre de les changer ? ( Pour Dan Ariely, celui qui a popularisé la théorie de l’économie comportementale, auteur du best-seller international C’est vraiment moi qui décide (blog), la crise économique de 2008 est la preuve que nos décisions, même en matière d’argent, ne sont pas toutes rationnelles, comme il le clame depuis longtemps. Mais si l’approche rationnelle des marchés ne peut pas nous protéger de nous-mêmes, quel modèle devons-nous utiliser, lui demande Karen Christensen pour in Business ? Errare humanum est : le progrès à besoin d’être mieux géré « Le modèle rationnel est malléable. Il n’est pas parfait, mais c’est le meilleur modèle que nous ayons », reconnait le chercheur. « Cependant, que seraient nos autoroutes s’ils avaient été conçus par des économistes rationnels ?
Pour le directeur du Groupe de recherche sur l’e-rationalité du MIT, nous ne savons pas ce que nous voulons tant que nous ne le voyons pas en contexte. Identifier nos travers pour les limiter Autre exemple. Earthly Sins Confessional Booth. Presentations of the Behavior, Energy and. Presentations are now available of last month’s Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference, which took place in Washington, DC.
The BECC conference focused on understanding the behavior and decision making of individuals and organizations and using that knowledge to accelerate our transition to an energy-efficient and low-carbon future. The conference brought together people from the US and around the world to share the latest insights, research, and experiences pertaining to behavior, energy and climate change. The 2009 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference was the 3rd annual conference to focus on accelerating our transition to an energy-efficient and low carbon economy through an improved understanding and application of social and behavioral mechanisms of change.
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