Category Archive for "Communicating sustainability"

11
January

GRI convenes Technology Consortium to unlock power of sustainability data

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21 December 2015: GRI, architect of the world’s sustainability data is convening a new technology consortium to spur on innovations that will foster more inclusive and sustainable economies and businesses. Over the course of next year and beyond, GRI will convene a conversation, among prominent representatives.

14
August

Constructively framing a low-carbon future: ‘Scary science and happy economics: making sense of climate change’

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Julia Thornton discusses constructively framing a low-carbon future and climate change in conversations, business, policy and the media. Reproduced with permission from Dissent Magazine (Australia), Summer 2009/2010 1: What is going on? Climate change is complex. Taking the idea of climate change and making it into a clear picture of how you and I will live.

3
February

Overcoming the social barriers to climate consensus

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By Ana-Maria Bliuc, Monash University and Craig McGarty, University of Western Sydney

It can be tempting to think that people who disagree with you are mad, bad or simply stupid. However, not only are such judgements usually wrong, but telling people that they are stupid is unlikely to convince them of the.

20
August

From the Reef to the RET: the politicisation of environmental science in Australia

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By David Holmes, Monash University The future of Australia’s climate and respect for environmental science stand to be the biggest losers in all of the forms of class-mobilised politicisation that are impacting Australia currently. Somewhere between the vocation of politics and the vocation of science, Australia has lost its way – to the point where.

30
July

What really annoys scientists about the state of the climate change debate?

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Here, Graham Readfearn reports back on interviews with climate scientists who reveal their bugbears about policy decisions, the media and climate sceptics. “Don’t shoot the messenger,” so the saying goes. But what if that message warns we might want to rethink that whole fossil fuel burning thing pretty quick because it could seriously alter.

5
August

Engaging the unengaged in science? Try a little harder

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Craig Cormick of CSIRO reflects on understanding science communication in this story from The Conversation. Like many Australians, you may have recoiled in horror or laughed heartily when the results of the Australian Academy of Science’s science literacy survey surfaced last month. You may have had a similar reaction – although hopefully not – to last week’s Read more

25
June

Australian media failures promote climate policy inaction

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By Brad Farrant, University of Western Australia; David Holmes, Monash University, and Mark G Edwards, University of Western Australia

Four months ago, the big media proprietors were fighting proposed federal government press reforms, arguing that “the press” needs freedom if it is to defend the public interest. But these arguments were raised.

7
June

Common sense won’t help you understand climate

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By Hamish McCallum, Griffith University

Most of us understand the world by using common sense and intuition. To a large extent, this means assuming that most things behave in a roughly linear way: small changes in inputs lead to small changes in outputs, and if increasing an input variable leads to an increase in response,.

21
May

How to succeed with ‘green’ changes at facilities

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There are many operational and behavioural changes that can be made to reduce the carbon footprint of facilities at a minimal cost, according to Dan Hoffman, one of the international keynote speakers at the upcoming Total Facilities expo. He says one of the keys to implementing these changes is a good communication plan, and it.

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