Below you will find a list of recommended readings that discuss issues related to the workshop topic of “Better & New NGO Strategies to Tackle the Sustainable Consumption and Production Challenge”. Most of these texts form the literature review that resulted in the workshop Discussion Paper. Some are also contributions from participants and collaborators, seeing the workshop challenges and solutions from their personal viewpoint or from their professional specialization area.

Readings that are marked with a “*” are those whose author/organization is a participant or collaborator of the workshop.

We will add further readings to this page up to the workshop date, and we therefore welcome you to revisit this page ahead of our encounter.

Core readings

The following documents discuss thoroughly the workshop topics and we recommend that the workshop participants have a glance at them ahead of the workshop for inspiring and highly relevant thoughts and ideas.

* A Time for Strategy. – C. Rose

Leverage Points. Places to Intervene in a System. – D. Meadows 

* Loss and Climate Change: the Cost of Parallel Narratives. – R. Randall

* Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity. – T. Crompton and T. Kasser (especially ch.4)

Mindspace, Influencing Behaviour through Public Policy. – UK Cabinet Office/ Institute for Government, P.Dolan, M.Hallsworth, D.Halpern, D.King, I.Vlaev

* Simple & Painless? The Limitations of Spillover in Environmental Campaigning. – T. Crompton and J. Thögersen

* Sociological Theory and Evaluation Research. An Application and its Usability for Evaluating Sustainable Development – W. Meyer

* State of the World 2010, Transforming Cultures, From Consumerism to Sustainability, Preview Version. – E. Assadourian

* The Development Dictionary, Preface to the 2010 Edition. – W. Sachs

* The End of the World as We Know It. – C. Leggewie (German version only)

* The Great Transition, A Tale of How It Turned Out Right, – A. Simms, S. Pratt, E. Neitzert, J. Ryan-Collins

* Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. – Yale University/ A.A. Leiserowitz, L.O. Fernandez and J.G. Speth

* Weathercocks & Signposts. The Environment Movement at a Crossroads. – T. Crompton

* Where the Green Grants Went. Patterns of UK Funding for Environmental and Conservation Work. J. Cracknell, H. Godwin, H. Williams

Why It Matters How We Frame the Environment, G. Lakoff

Complimentary readings

The following texts shed more light on one or more of the workshop topics and are recommended for going more in-depth on these issues. 

A Sustainable Economy for London – Preliminary Considerations for a Vision

Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change. – E. Shove

* Blueprint for European Sustainable Consumption and Production. Finding the Path of Transition to a Sustainable Society. – European Environmental Bureau /SCORE Network

* Church of England’s Seven-Year Plan on Climate Change and the Environment, – I. Christie

* Collective Intelligence and Collective Leadership, – G. Pór

* Cool Down, 50 Irrtümer Über Unsere Klima-Zukunft-Klimaschutz Neudenken. – F. Ekhardt (German version only)

Don’t Think of an Elephant / the George Lakoff Manifesto. – G. Lakoff

Everybody’s Movement. Environmental Justice and Climate Change. – A. Park

From Hot Air to Happy Endings, How to Inspire Public Support for a Low Carbon Society, Green Alliance

* Sustainable Development in Times of Crisis. – K. Brand (German version only)

* New Rules, New Game. Communication Tactics for Climate Change. The Game is Changing Behaviours, the Rules Will Help Us Win It – Futerra Sustainability Communications

* Overconsumption, Our Use of the World’s Resources, – Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) and Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI)

Painting the Town Green. How to Persuade People to be Environmentally Friendly, a Report for Everyone Involved in Promoting Greener Lifestyles to the Public. – S. Hounsham

* SIZZLE the New Climate Message. – Futerra Sustainability Communications

* The Death of Environmentalism. Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World. – M. Schnellenberger and T. Nordhaus

The U.S. Environmental Movement: Crisis or Transition? – R.J. Bruille and J.C. Jenkins

Warm Words; How Are We Telling the Climate Story and How Can We Tell It Better? – G. Ereaut and N. Segnit

Warm Words II, How the Climate Story Is Evolving and The Lessons We Can Learn for Encouraging Public Action – G. Ereaut / N. Segnit

Links

A Good Week for Science – and Insights into Politics. – G. Lakoff

Never Mind What People Think, How Can We Change What They Do? Interview with Robert Cialidini

* The end of Magical Climate Thinking – T. Nordhaus and M. Schnellenberger

 The Fallacy of Climate Activism . A. Sachs