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Totally agree with you Richard. Being that I work on energy efficiency, lighting is indeed a small piece of the total and moving to CFLs or LEDs will not solve climate change. Nevertheless, it is a start... and remember that it is a good way to make people realize that there are options when using any energy-device... people talk about the lights going out, never about the electricity went out... so getting them to adopt a CFL is in my view a way to change their cognitive map and hopefully when they go to buy a refrigerator or car, they will think about how much energy it uses... WE definitely need to do much MORE and NOW - before the health of this Planet is compromised beyond our ability to survive the changes that will ensue... and I'm frankly much more worried about humans propensity to violence especially over resources, than Climate Change.. To be blunt, a nuclear winter is something I worry about more... Thus it is in all our interests to redouble our efforts, to bring as many people as we can, of all ages, to join us to change how humans are abusing the planet. Have a great day Rafael -Original Message- From: Wallace, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: rldavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Global Environmental Education Sent: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 6:08 am Subject: RE: Green Living Tips I am looking forward to seeing the FSB list, but I think the debate is still open as to whether the savings from changing light bulbs is or is not=2 0trivial. I find the ongoing discussion of CFLs and similar prescriptions for change increasingly distracting from what is going to be needed to address the problems at hand. Lighting accounts for 5-10% of energy usage in the U.S (though nearly 25% of our electricity usage). The number of CFLs in use accounts for some small percentage of that 5-10%. It's not a small amount of energy in kilowatts, perhaps, but in terms of overall impact on energy usage in the U.S., switching to CFLs is small change. This is probably a good time to recall the Thanksgiving piece that our esteemed GEP-Ed founder, Mike Maniates, had published almost exactly a year ago in the Washington Post, entitled "Going Green? Easy Doesn't Do it". The link is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/21/AR2007112101856.html. It just scratches the surface, but is an excellent editorial on the question of "on what scale do we need to be considering change?" This past year has seen a lot of talk and paper devoted to this issue of scale - books by Thomas Friedman, Van Jones, and others, the policy proposals Al Gore has been making. The N.Y. Times' editorial board ran a piece _yesterday_ (again, Happy Thanksgiving!) about the need for higher-level thinking - specifically, marrying economic and environmental policy RIGHT NOW, in this critical time for both (it's here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/opinion/27thu1.html?_r=1). It's food for thought as we (in the U.S.) dig into our holiday leftovers. Cheers,=0 A Rich -- Richard L. Wallace Associate Professor and Chair Environmental Studies Program Ursinus College Collegeville, PA From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of rldavis Sent: Thu 11/27/2008 4:25 PM To: Global Environmental Education Subject: Green Living Tips Rado-there is a listserve run by an Environmental Psychologist in New Brunswick called “fostering sustainable behavior” (spelled the US way): [EMAIL PROTECTED] You do have to be approved to join the list. I think that the archives, located at http://www.cbsm.com/forums/search.lasso are open. It is loaded with tips, has great (but fairly low volume discussion and the guy who runs it (but whose name I’ve forgotten) is very interesting. I heard him speak at a Climate Project “reunion” in Boston (that’s the group of Al Gore trained climate change presenters). By the way, he spoke specifically to idling your car and the savings are not trivial, nor are the savings from changing light bulbs. There are dollar savings too. He differentiated between easy things to do that individually were small (such as changing light bulbs) but, because so many bulbs were being change collectively, had a huge impact, and those mega things that saved a lot of carbon through a single action, but were very, very hard to achieve both technically and socially. Larry Davis -- * R. Laurence Davis, Ph.D. Professor of E arth and Environmental Sciences University Research Scholar Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences University of New Haven 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, Connecticut 06516 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Office: 203-932-7108 Fax: 203-931-6097 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN- A Leader in Experiential Education *
Re: Green Living Tips
ON the energy efficiency/conservation front there are tons of websites including likely your local electric/gas utility. Same with water use from the water utility... I work at PG&E and we have lots of options for customers (pge.com). The California PUC is in the process of developing a website with tips as well. Enviro NGOs of course have tons - nrdc, sierra club, union of concerned scientists, WWF, on and on... most of it can be summarized by being careful in how you live your life, what you eat (yes--meat does imply more resources - as you go up one trophic level and it typically takes about 10 lbs of veggies to make 1 lb of meat), how much you drive when you could walk/bike; how far you live from work and access to all the products and services you think you need (rethink those as well), what resources are used to bring you energy, and of course much you can do to reduce your energy use by also paying attention to how your abode is built, what appliances you purchase and if you don't have CFLs or LED lights--what are you waiting for? Finally, behaviors matter... having the heating or AC system on with windows open... yes--lots of people and schools do this... why? Or insisting on having the huge TV work as a radio... if what you want is music, turn on a radio or use an iPod... not the 60 inch TV! (yes, I see this happen all the time as well)... could go on and on MOst of it could be avoided by paying more attention to how you use energy (yup--trying to go 0 -60 mph in 4 secs is usually wasteful), how much you consume (do you really need 200 pairs of shoes, 30 suits, or for that matter more than 300 ft2/person--as in why do you want/need/worse, purchase a 5000 ft2 (or larger) home? Do you need 2 acres of grass around the house and 40 miles from work? Do you need to fly to attend meetings in person that could perhaps be done electronically? Tips there are aplenty... what seems to be lacking is an awareness at how "entitled" we live our lives... using resources that could improve others livelihoods very significantly, yet provide minimal extra comfort (if any at all) to us... and lets not even get started with how much healthier this planet would be. We need to figure out ways to get people to care more about the Planet and the other inhabitants in it... that is the crux... the tips--they're all around us. And give thanks on this day after thanksgiving, that we can even be worrying about this rather than access to water (clean would be even better), fuel, food, a roof over our heads, Rafael -Original Message- From: rldavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Global Environmental Education Sent: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 1:25 pm Subject: Green Living Tips Rado-there is a listserve run by an Environmental Psychologist in New Brunswick called “fostering sustainable behavior” (spelled the US way): [EMAIL PROTECTED] You do have to be approved to join the list. I think that the archives, located at ht tp://www.cbsm.com/forums/search.lasso are open. It is loaded with tips, has great (but fairly low volume discussion and the guy who runs it (but whose name I’ve forgotten) is very interesting. I heard him speak at a Climate Project “reunion” in Boston (that’s the group of Al Gore trained climate change presenters). By the way, he spoke specifically to idling your car and the savings are not trivial, nor are the savings from changing light bulbs. There are dollar savings too. He differentiated between easy things to do that individually were small (such as changing light bulbs) but, because so many bulbs were being change collectively, had a huge impact, and those mega things that saved a lot of carbon through a single action, but were very, very hard to achieve both technically and socially. Larry Davis -- * R. Laurence Davis, Ph.D. Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences University Research Scholar Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences University of New Haven 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, Connecticut 06516 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Office: 203-932-7108 Fax: 203-931-6097 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN- A Leader in Experiential Education *
RE: Green Living Tips
I am looking forward to seeing the FSB list, but I think the debate is still open as to whether the savings from changing light bulbs is or is not trivial. I find the ongoing discussion of CFLs and similar prescriptions for change increasingly distracting from what is going to be needed to address the problems at hand. Lighting accounts for 5-10% of energy usage in the U.S (though nearly 25% of our electricity usage). The number of CFLs in use accounts for some small percentage of that 5-10%. It's not a small amount of energy in kilowatts, perhaps, but in terms of overall impact on energy usage in the U.S., switching to CFLs is small change. This is probably a good time to recall the Thanksgiving piece that our esteemed GEP-Ed founder, Mike Maniates, had published almost exactly a year ago in the Washington Post, entitled "Going Green? Easy Doesn't Do it". The link is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/21/AR2007112101856.html. It just scratches the surface, but is an excellent editorial on the question of "on what scale do we need to be considering change?" This past year has seen a lot of talk and paper devoted to this issue of scale - books by Thomas Friedman, Van Jones, and others, the policy proposals Al Gore has been making. The N.Y. Times' editorial board ran a piece _yesterday_ (again, Happy Thanksgiving!) about the need for higher-level thinking - specifically, marrying economic and environmental policy RIGHT NOW, in this critical time for both (it's here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/opinion/27thu1.html?_r=1). It's food for thought as we (in the U.S.) dig into our holiday leftovers. Cheers, Rich -- Richard L. Wallace Associate Professor and Chair Environmental Studies Program Ursinus College Collegeville, PA From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of rldavis Sent: Thu 11/27/2008 4:25 PM To: Global Environmental Education Subject: Green Living Tips Rado-there is a listserve run by an Environmental Psychologist in New Brunswick called "fostering sustainable behavior" (spelled the US way): [EMAIL PROTECTED] You do have to be approved to join the list. I think that the archives, located at http://www.cbsm.com/forums/search.lasso are open. It is loaded with tips, has great (but fairly low volume discussion and the guy who runs it (but whose name I've forgotten) is very interesting. I heard him speak at a Climate Project "reunion" in Boston (that's the group of Al Gore trained climate change presenters). By the way, he spoke specifically to idling your car and the savings are not trivial, nor are the savings from changing light bulbs. There are dollar savings too. He differentiated between easy things to do that individually were small (such as changing light bulbs) but, because so many bulbs were being change collectively, had a huge impact, and those mega things that saved a lot of carbon through a single action, but were very, very hard to achieve both technically and socially. Larry Davis -- * R. Laurence Davis, Ph.D. Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences University Research Scholar Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences University of New Haven 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, Connecticut 06516 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Office: 203-932-7108Fax: 203-931-6097 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN- A Leader in Experiential Education *
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Rado et al. Found the name of the Environmental Psychologist mentioned in my last post. It is Doug McKenzie-Mohr and his web site is www.cbsm.com. Good luck Larry -- * R. Laurence Davis, Ph.D. Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences University Research Scholar Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences University of New Haven 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, Connecticut 06516 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Office: 203-932-7108Fax: 203-931-6097 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN- A Leader in Experiential Education *
Green Living Tips
Rado-there is a listserve run by an Environmental Psychologist in New Brunswick called ³fostering sustainable behavior² (spelled the US way): [EMAIL PROTECTED] You do have to be approved to join the list. I think that the archives, located at http://www.cbsm.com/forums/search.lasso are open. It is loaded with tips, has great (but fairly low volume discussion and the guy who runs it (but whose name I¹ve forgotten) is very interesting. I heard him speak at a Climate Project ³reunion² in Boston (that¹s the group of Al Gore trained climate change presenters). By the way, he spoke specifically to idling your car and the savings are not trivial, nor are the savings from changing light bulbs. There are dollar savings too. He differentiated between easy things to do that individually were small (such as changing light bulbs) but, because so many bulbs were being change collectively, had a huge impact, and those mega things that saved a lot of carbon through a single action, but were very, very hard to achieve both technically and socially. Larry Davis -- * R. Laurence Davis, Ph.D. Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences University Research Scholar Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences University of New Haven 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, Connecticut 06516 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Office: 203-932-7108Fax: 203-931-6097 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN- A Leader in Experiential Education *
RE: Green living tips
Rado, There is an interesting website - www.greenyour.com - that offers ideas on greening anything you want - your home, office, body, lifestyle, etc. Maria Maria Ivanova, PhD Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy The College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 phone: +1-203-606-4640 fax: +1-757-221-1868 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mivanova.com Director, Global Environmental Governance Project Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy New Haven, CT 06511 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.environmentalgovernance.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Radoslav Dimitrov Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:06 PM To: Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe Subject: Green living tips Does anyone know a good source of ideas for daily living that helps the environment? Not idling, changing lightbulbs, buying silly things with the word "green" on them, things like that :) Something you could point your students to. Cheers, Rado Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario Social Science Centre London, Ontario Canada N6A 5C2 Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023 Fax +1(519) 661-3904 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 27-Nov-08, at 3:45 PM, Dr. Wil Burns wrote: > Hi Raul, > > I'm going to send you about 10 pieces that critique the WSSD to > your email > address. If anyone else would like to see these pieces, send me a > message. > wil > > > Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief > Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy > 1702 Arlington Blvd. > El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA > Ph: 650.281.9126 > Fax: 510.779.5361 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.jiwlp.com > SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=240348 > Skype ID: Wil.Burns > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raul > Pacheco > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:15 AM > To: Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe > Subject: Evaluations of World Summit on Sustainable Development > (Johannesburg 2002) > > Dear all, > > Further to my original request, anybody know of any academic (journal > articles/book chapters) assessments of WSSD Johannesburg 2002? I > seem to > recall a paper by Paul Wapner in GEP, but haven't been able to find > anything > more recent. I've tried everything from Google Scholar to Social > Science > Citation Index, but not a lot emerges. Pointers much appreciated. > > Best, > Raul > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raul > Pacheco > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:33 PM > To: Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe > Subject: Request for data on number of ENGOs in UN sustainable > development conferences > > > Dear all, > > I'm looking for the exact numbers of ENGOs that participated in > Stockholm, > Rio, Johannesburg. In an ideal world, I would love to see data on > growth of > small NGOs and large NGOs. I am aware of the data provided in > Betsill and > Corell's 2008 NGO diplomacy book, but I want the exact numbers. If > I don't > get the data I am looking for, I'm happy to use Willet's data as a > proxy to > reflect growth in NGO participation in UN-sponsored sustainable > development > conferences, but it won't be the same. > > Along the way, I seem to recall that about a couple of years ago > someone > asked for data on increasing membership in ENGOs. Does anybody > recall that > discussion and do you know where could I find data on that other > topic? > > Thanks! > Raul > > -- > - > Raul Pacheco-Vega > Institute for Resources, Environment and > Sustainability > The University of British Columbia > 413.26-2202 Main Mall > Vancouver, British Columbia > Canada V6T 1Z4 > -- > > >
Green living tips
Does anyone know a good source of ideas for daily living that helps the environment? Not idling, changing lightbulbs, buying silly things with the word "green" on them, things like that :) Something you could point your students to. Cheers, Rado Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario Social Science Centre London, Ontario Canada N6A 5C2 Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023 Fax +1(519) 661-3904 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 27-Nov-08, at 3:45 PM, Dr. Wil Burns wrote: Hi Raul, I'm going to send you about 10 pieces that critique the WSSD to your email address. If anyone else would like to see these pieces, send me a message. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jiwlp.com SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=240348 Skype ID: Wil.Burns -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raul Pacheco Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:15 AM To: Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe Subject: Evaluations of World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002) Dear all, Further to my original request, anybody know of any academic (journal articles/book chapters) assessments of WSSD Johannesburg 2002? I seem to recall a paper by Paul Wapner in GEP, but haven't been able to find anything more recent. I've tried everything from Google Scholar to Social Science Citation Index, but not a lot emerges. Pointers much appreciated. Best, Raul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raul Pacheco Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:33 PM To: Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe Subject: Request for data on number of ENGOs in UN sustainable development conferences Dear all, I'm looking for the exact numbers of ENGOs that participated in Stockholm, Rio, Johannesburg. In an ideal world, I would love to see data on growth of small NGOs and large NGOs. I am aware of the data provided in Betsill and Corell's 2008 NGO diplomacy book, but I want the exact numbers. If I don't get the data I am looking for, I'm happy to use Willet's data as a proxy to reflect growth in NGO participation in UN-sponsored sustainable development conferences, but it won't be the same. Along the way, I seem to recall that about a couple of years ago someone asked for data on increasing membership in ENGOs. Does anybody recall that discussion and do you know where could I find data on that other topic? Thanks! Raul -- - Raul Pacheco-Vega Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability The University of British Columbia 413.26-2202 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6T 1Z4 --
