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Towards sustainable consumption: start by reframing the questions

Daniel WelchNicola Spurling By and Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted:

Sustainable consumption is all too often framed in terms of individuals’ choices. The social practice perspective offers an alternative model, argue Dr Daniel Welch and Dr Nicola Spurling. “Do you find it easy to follow a sustainable lifestyle? Do you switch off every light? Plan each meal to avoid food waste? Why is behaviour change […]

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Unsustainable practices: Why electric cars are a failure of ambition

Nicola SpurlingDaniel Welch By and Filed Under: Science and Technology Posted:

A focus on ‘techno-fix’ solutions to climate change like electric cars simply perpetuate current unsustainable practices and represent a failure of ambition, argue Nicola Spurling and Dan Welch. In January David Cameron announced that his cabinet might trade in their limousines for electric cars. It was the latest in a stream of initiatives to promote the […]

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