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Evidences of lay peopleâs reasoning related to climate change: per country and cross country results
This deliverable is about lay citizensâ reasoning about sustainability, in particular environmental protection and climate change, in various consumption domains, and the relation of this reasoning to the day-to-day lives of the participants. It presents country and cross-country findings from all 18 STAVE trials conducted between May 2011 and February 2012 in all six PACHELBEL partner countries. Analyses demonstrate that participants in the STAVE trials predominantly display a clear awareness that citizen consumption as demonstrated in their everyday practices of energy use, mobility, waste etc. are strongly connected with issues of environmental sustainablility. The STAVE trials also demonstrated that to live sustainably is a daily challenge, and people are often not able to organize their everyday routines in an environmental-friendly manner. Frequently there is a gap between participantsâ aspirations and their practical behaviours. Significantly, the group conversations enabled participants to become aware that the self-assessed soundness of their everyday lives in terms of sustainability was at variance from the actual impact of e.g. their energy use or or mobility practices
Communicating, Networking: Interacting: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU
Communication Studies; Sustainable Development; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Network
Communicating, Networking: Interacting: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU
Communication Studies; Sustainable Development; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Network
Innovate to Mitigate: Science Learning in an Open-Innovation Challenge for High School Students
In this exploratory study, we report results from hosting two rounds of an open innovation competition challenging young people age 13-18 to develop a method for carbon mitigation. In both challenges, teams worked within the classroom and extensively on their own time out-of-school. The challenges were structured to engage participants to work collaboratively and independently in an open-ended, goal-oriented way, yet constrained their work by the parameters of the challenge, and supported it by a suite of tools, and resources. Evidence of learning science concepts and practices, student persistence, and the enthusiasm of participants, teachers and coaches, convince us that the Challenge structure and format is highly worthy of further development and investigation. Our findings indicate that Challenges such as this have the potential to enlarge the âecosystemâ of learning environments in the formal education system
Sustainability in design: now! Challenges and opportunities for design research, education and practice in the XXI century
Copyright @ 2010 Greenleaf PublicationsLeNS project funded by the Asia Link Programme, EuropeAid, European Commission
Toward Sustainable Households: Passive Context-Aware Intervention to Promote Reduction in Food Waste
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