Category Archives: Water
World water day: 5 top facts
To mark world water day, here are 5 water-related facts, courtesy of Waterwise. 1. In the UK we flush 2 billion litres of water down the toilet every day. 2. In Abu Dhabi, average per capita household water consumption is … Continue reading
Don’t be fooled by the rain – the UK needs water metering
This is a guest post by Nicci Russell, Policy Director at Waterwise After the wettest ever June, the average total rainfall for July had already fallen by the middle of last month. And the drought earlier this year was dubbed the wettest … Continue reading
Why valuing nature should not be part of a green economy
This is a guest post by Hannah Griffiths, head of policy and campaigns at the World Development Movement. She argues that measures to value nature and ecosystem services will only serve to undermine progress. The battle for the meaning … Continue reading
Green is normal
This is a guest post by Paul Kelly, Director of External Affairs, ASDA on the results of a sustainability survey ASDA have conducted over the last ten months with their customers. For a simple idea, sustainability can often be made to … Continue reading
Safeguarding the resources that underpin daily life
Over in Green Alliance’s Designing Out Waste theme, we’ve recently launched a new report on the growing challenge of resource security. It focuses on certain raw materials – phosphorus, metals and water – that are inextricably linked to economic growth. … Continue reading
What happened when Asda challenged its employees to go green?
This is a guest post by Sarah Belmont, Corporate Sustainability Manager at Asda. Inspired by Asda’s involvement in the Green Living Consortium, and in particular by the ethnographic research in Bringing it Home, this spring Asda devised a Sustainability Challenge, … Continue reading
Nudge debate – turning fine words into action
At the end of March Green Alliance held its annual debate on a question we’ve talked about a lot on this blog: does government need to do more than nudge us towards sustainable living? The answer from panellists was a … Continue reading
Bringing it home film – web edit
Featuring six ordinary households from around the country, this film argues that understanding human behaviour is crucial to improving policies on green living. This is the newly edited web version (5mins). (See here for more on our Bringing it home project.)
Bringing it home film & report
Our report is online now. And, after premiering at our annual debate last night, here’s our final Bringing it home film! As well as featuring six ordinary households from around the country, the film tells the story of our research, and … Continue reading
Green living links 24.4.11
From now on we’ll be posting a weekly round-up on the politics, policy and psychology of green living. So, to kick off… The budget gets a green thumbs down, and government hits an all-time low on the Guardian’s greenometer. The Zero-carbon homes plan is ’watered … Continue reading
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