Tag Archives: Green Deal
How to make City Deals greener
This is a guest post by Andy Nolan, Director of Sustainable Development at Sheffield City Council. Eight core English cities including my own have now signed City Deals to boost their economies[1]. Work is already underway on putting the deals into practice, … Continue reading
High ambitions for high rise sustainable living
This post is by policy adviser Hannah Kyrke-Smith. On Monday 25 June 2012, we brought together the residents from an inner London high rise estate and three of their local councillors to take part in the first of three workshops … 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
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
The case for an energy ‘mega-brand’
This is a guest post by Solitaire Townsend, co-founder of sustainability communications agency Futerra When Clement Atlee was asked how Churchill won the war, the answer was “He talked about it”. This quote opened last Monday’s launch of Green Alliance’s … Continue reading
Government needs a national communications plan for energy efficiency
“[Consumers will] want a joined up experience of the government’s energy policies, regardless of the individual policy mechanisms and their origin.” This quote could so easily have come from the report that Faye Scott and I wrote for Green Alliance … Continue reading
Should the government advertise the “green switchover”?
This article is by James Murray and first appeared on BusinessGreen. It covers today’s launch of our new report Neither sermons nor silence: the case for national communications on energy use. The government will today be called on to relax its ban on … Continue reading
How acceptable is government intervention on green behaviour?
This guest post, by Matthew Evans of Ipsos MORI, is based on recent international research conducted by Ipsos MORI. Delivering behaviour change is essential if we are to have a more sustainable society. Meeting the UK’s climate change targets will … Continue reading
Austerity hasn’t made people care less about the environment
This article, by Green Alliance’s Alastair Harper, about our new report What do people really think about the environment? first appeared on guardian.co.uk on 10 April. A few days ago, in a stuffy, closed-windowed meeting, I stared at a projection of Powerpoint slides, … Continue reading
The energy debate must consider demand – not just supply
This is a guest post by Rebecca Willis, a Green Alliance associate. It was first published on guardian.co.uk. It is based on Demanding Less: Why we need a new politics of energy, by Rebecca Willis and Nick Eyre, which was launched at … Continue reading
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