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Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce is reviewed by Professor Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Southampton.
Research shows that climate change had a significant effect on voting choices in the 2016 and 2020 elections – and could also influence the 2024 presidential race.
Though progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s national parks, it did so for the enjoyment of white people.
Spoof advertising, rooted in environmental concerns, use humour and poetry to grab attention.
Today, as in the past, pro-car sentiment is a backlash against nascent environmental protest.
Founded in 1959, the membership group Trout Unlimited has changed the culture of fly-fishing and mobilized members to support conservation. Could its approach work for other social problems?
US study shows environmental messages can put conservative consumers off trying and buying plant-based products.
Boreal plants produce molecules that are valued by traditional medicines and inspire the development of medicinal products by contemporary chemists.
By including five extinct species in its Bird of the Year competition, Forest & Bird provides a way to mourn what we’ve lost – and also strive to save what remains.
20 years ago, solar and wind were expensive enough to make nuclear seem like an option for Australia. With cheap renewables a reality, there’s simply no point to domestic nuclear.
The group has eschewed disruptive protest in the pursuit of ‘building relationships’.
Australia’s environmental movement is not united. The reasons for that go deep.
Communal meals to break fast can mean lots of single-use plastics. A switch to environmentally friendly principles is in line with Islamic principles through the ages.
Tu BiShvat has religious roots, but early Zionists embraced the day in new, more secular ways.
It was in the 1990s that the idea of Christian environmental stewardship disappeared from the rhetoric of the religious right, paving the way for the anti-environmental position it holds today.
The majority of the world’s population identifies with a religion – could their faith be used to save the planet?
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Poor communities of color have spent decades battling US industrial and agricultural pollution. A new EPA office is designed to support their struggle, but history suggests reason for caution.
The green movement has more to thank workers in polluting industries than you might expect.
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Manchester
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Professor of History, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Earth Science, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Sustainability Sciences and Director, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington
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Michael Howes is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Professor of Political Science and Founding Director, Center for Environmental Politics, University of Washington
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Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford
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Masters Candidate in Environmental Finance and Sustainability Management, University of Waterloo
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Professorial Fellow, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
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Senior Lecturer, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor, York St John University
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Professor and Associate Dean (Education), University of Nottingham
