Latest from the Green Living theme
Party conferences are coming up!
Can the Big Society become a Big Green Society? We're excited to be at all three party conferences this year, holding debates with ministers, business leaders and charity chief executives on the topic of a big green society. Here's the line up so far:
Liberal Democrats: The Big Green Society? 21 September, 6.15 to 7.30pm, Hilton Liverpool
Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Tony Hawkhead, chief executive, Groundwork
Raymond Jack, director of energy retail, Scottish Power
Matthew Spencer, director, Green Alliance
Labour: Holding the Big Green Society to Account. 28 September, 6.15 to 7.30pm, Hilton Manchester Deansgate
- Tom Burke CBE, founder-director, E3G, and Green Alliance trustee
- Tony Hawkhead, chief executive, Groundwork
- Matthew Spencer, director, Green Alliance
Conservatives: The Big Green Society? 5 October, 12.30 to 1.30pm, Malmaison, Birmingham
- Greg Barker MP, Minister of State for Climate Change
- Zac Goldsmith MP, Conservative MP for Richmond Park
- Tony Hawkhead, chief executive, Groundwork
- Paul Kelly, corporate affairs director, ASDA
- Matthew Spencer, director, Green Alliance
We hope to see you there!
Behaviour change workshops
Throughout July we ran a series of small, expert behaviour change workshops looking at home energy efficiency, recycling and domestic water use. We looked at how behavioural theory can help us improve the design and uptake of some of the new government's flagship initiatives in these areas. Attended by a mixture of policy experts and behaviour change experts, the focus of the workshops was on how we can use insights from behavioural economics and behaviour change research to develop policy ideas that have a maximim chance of working.
The three seminars were as follows: