Category Archives: Communications
How making a game of climate change could help save the planet
This guest post is by energy and climate change consultant Paula Owen. It first appeared on GreenBiz.com Behaviour change interventions have so far had surprisingly limited success in motivating wider society into taking positive environmental action. Despite constant bombardment of messages regarding … Continue reading
What’s the link between the rising tide of populist politics and climate denial?
This post is by Matthew Lockwood, senior research fellow at the University of Exeter. Last week I blogged on how UKIP’s rise has been mirrored by a rise in the proportion of people saying that they do not think the world … Continue reading
Reasons to be cheerful
Unlike most people working on environmental issues, I spend most of my time finding and telling good news stories. When not editing the Green Alliance blog, I work on earthrise, an environmental TV show on Al Jazeera English that features … Continue reading
Are fuel prices the nation’s greatest concern?
This post by Federica Cocco first appeared on Full Fact on March 4th 2013. In today’s politics roundup, the Sun reports that three quarters of the British public are concerned about one big national issue. If you think it’s the economy or … Continue reading
Sceptics, climate change and the media
This is a guest post by James Painter of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism It’s nearly Christmas, so it must be the end of another round of UN climate talks. One of the less reported aspects of this … Continue reading
How creating pop-up cafes and homework clubs can encourage people to save energy
This post is by Green Alliance policy assistant Jonny Hazell, who worked on Waste Watch’s Our Common Place project, which has recently published a report on its first year. Waste Watch’s Our Common Place programme emerged from the simple idea … Continue reading
Three things we can learn from video games
This is a guest post by Olly Lawder of sustainability communications agency Futerra. Nothing is more engaging, distracting, entertaining or compulsive than video games. Don’t believe me? Then you either haven’t played them or you simply haven’t found the right one … Continue reading
Four top communications campaigns that DECC could learn from
Tucked away at the back of Green Alliance’s recent report Neither sermons nor silence are some great examples of how government communication can be done well. The report argues that to get quick, widespread take up of consumer-facing energy policies such as the Green … Continue reading
Why a low carbon transition can’t be brought about by stealth
This post is by Green Alliance’s director, Matthew Spencer. A version of this article first appeared in the ENDS report. When Clement Atlee was asked how Churchill won the war he said ‘talking about it’. He imbued confidence in a … Continue reading
The Green Deal explained
This is a guest post by energy and climate change consultant Paula Owen Update: Our embedded version has now expired, but you can still watch the video here. The government’s Green Deal for energy efficiency is a bit of a tricky one to … Continue reading
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