Foraging for sustainability amongst capitalist ruins

by Sustainable Consumption Institute | Sep 20, 2024 | Sustainable transitions

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Image credit: Mark Shtanov Caroline Cornier, Tetyana Solovey, Tim Siew and Mark Shtanov on sustainability through interdisciplinary lenses This blog is the result of an interdisciplinary group of...

Spectres of the plastics consumer and the need to challenge problematic demands

by Sustainable Consumption Institute | Sep 9, 2024 | All posts, Circular economy

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Featured image copyright: gettyimages Torik Holmes and Christina Picken discuss the troubling role played by powerful ideas of the consumer and demand with regard to tackling plastic problems.  ...

Energy consumption behaviour change: is the UK strategy of ‘leaving it to the market’ a busted flush?

by Sustainable Consumption Institute | Apr 23, 2024 | All posts, Circular economy, Sustainable cities

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Noel Cass discusses the shortcomings of the UK Government’s approach to climate policy. An invitation from an old colleague from the DEMAND Centre allowed me to come and present to the SCI about the...

We all have to become better economists

by Sustainable Consumption Institute | Apr 22, 2024 | All posts, Circular economy

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Caroline Cornier reflects on the International Conference on Land Grabbing 2024 in Bogotá, Colombia. From the 19th to the 21st of March 2024, Colombia’s prestigious Los Andes University in Bogotá,...

Anti-Net Zero Populism and the future of British climate policy

by Sustainable Consumption Institute | Aug 30, 2023 | All posts, Climate education

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Matthew Paterson, Stanley Wilshire, and Paul Tobin discuss the types of ANZP rhetoric and important lessons to learn from its (modest) successes.   In the last couple of months, the Conservative...