I'm not into nature
Or how to cut 50% CO2 from 1997 levels and still have a life?
- we're all dependent on power - you can get used to not having power a few hours a day
- car free days
- when you travel you get used to inconvenience
- fluctuations of the environment part of “nature” not nature (like nature)
- back-up system
- everyday practices: cycling, baths, internet/computer, bottled vs tap water
- economic determination (by state, bottom line $)
Assimilation
- planned power shutdowns and water breaks in Bangalore, India (physically and emotionally)
- how do we handle these shifts in our environment?
Cause → Effect
- creating a direct correlation between our actions and their effect in order to facilitate investment in meaningful change
- Dirk Fleischmann's 'Empire' project (a field of solar panels)
young people
- mixed messages, consciousness vs consumption - how to make the link?
- unclear messages
- too busy
- convincing sceptics
- no fundamental conviction - behaviouralism
- weatherchanging
- does recycling work?
- what is garbage (add lifestyle waste)?
- eco-digi-art - high consumption form - to express the opposite
- what is a sustainable bra ('uplifting project')?
- Ingrid Bachmann: The Institute of Everyday Life
- city schools / schools without walls / exploding schools (canberra)
- wizer - recycling
- Heather Roger's film
- bamboo
- environmental economics