Jane's Walk USA is a project celebrating 50 years since the publication of Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The project encourages the exploration of where you live and provides some ideas for things to do.
Social license to operate
BP is definitely splashing around the cultural sponsorship - there has been press coverage of the £10 million to cultural majors in London, and now they are also sponsoring the Cultural Olympiad. Art Not Oil want artworks for an online exhibition. Send them before the end of February.
Values and Climate Change Behaviours Conference
The Scottish Government's conference on values and behaviours focused on the ways psychology could inform work to address climate change. Prof Tim Kasser, Knox College, Illinois; Dr Anat Bardi, Royal Holloway, University of London and Prof Greg Maio, University of Cardiff, introduced current thinking in psychology of values. For those interested in this approach, check... Continue Reading →
What are the key aspects of well-being?
The UK Office of National Statistics is currently consulting on a framework and headline indicators for measuring well-being. This is an incredibly important development, intended in the long run to provide alternatives to simplistic measures such as GDP. The consultation tests the assumption that the following domains add up to a sense of well-being (quoted... Continue Reading →
Tree species maps for European forests
European Forest Institute - Tree species maps for European forests: useful resource on major tree species down to the 1km level accessible as GIS data. The UK's Forestry Commission makes their datasets available (thanks Tim).
How do you illustrate complexity?
Artist Rachel Schragis created the Flow Chart of the Declaration of the Occupation. The media keep criticising the occupation movement for not having a clear message. That's the media's problem (always wanting to simplify everything, one message). What Schragis has done is capture the complexity of issues underpinning questions of social and environmental justice. She... Continue Reading →
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