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Education for sustainability, action-oriented research and the value of building bridges

by SCI Admin | Apr 24, 2019 | All posts, Climate education

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website In March 2019 the Sustainable Consumption Institute held a series of activities around sustainability education. The SCI hosted Rachel Trajber, education lead of the Brazilian government research...

Why the meat industry could win big from the switch to veggie lifestyles

by SCI Admin | Mar 27, 2019 | All posts, Veganism and 'more-than-human' relations

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website One of the largest meat processors in the UK, supplying supermarkets across the country with beef, pork, and lamb, has launched a plant-based meat alternative. ABP is the first UK meat producer to...

Everyday thriftiness: Austerity and sustainability

by SCI Admin | Mar 5, 2019 | All posts, Circular economy

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website With 12.4 million people living in absolute low income poverty in the UK in 2016/17, continued uncertainty from Brexit, and persistent issues with the new benefits system, Universal Credit, life...

School climate strikes: What next for the latest generation of activists?

by SCI Admin | Feb 22, 2019 | All posts, Collective action and social movements

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Students took to the streets across the UK. In Manchester, there were fine speeches. In London, there were several arrests, with messages of support from various politicians and commentators,  who...

Victims, saviours or villains? Children in popular climate imaginaries

by SCI Admin | Feb 15, 2019 | All posts, Climate education

Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Fifteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg pulls no punches in calling out the world’s leaders on their inaction on climate change. “You say you love your children above all else, yet you are...
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