December 2008

Community Action on Climate Change: Encouraging Sustainable Energy use and Practical Carbon Reduction. A One Day Interactive Workshop Event for Local Authorities and Sustainability Decision Makers, Thursday 11 December 2008, 9:30am – 5pm, Oak Suite, University of Surrey.

Click here to view the programme.

If you would like to attend this event please email Dr. Michael Peters at M.Peters@surrey.ac.uk requesting a place and advising on any dietary/special requirements and if you will need a parking permit for the day.

 

December 2008

Forthcoming RESOLVE seminar, Sustainable Living: working towards attractive alternatives? click to read more.

October 2008

Dr Michael Peters recently participated in and presented a paper at the 10th Conference on Environmental Education in Europe, held at the University of Malta 15th – 18th October 2008. It was organised by the European Foundation for Education & Sustainable Development (European ESD-net) and was entitled ‘Thinking and acting outside the box – a European contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development’. Michael presented his paper entitled ‘Educational community-based climate change initiatives in the UK: the role of local government and the experience of participants’ and contributed to the development of a manifesto for environmental education in Europe, presented to the Maltese Government’s Minister of Resources and Rural Affairs, the Hon George Pullicino, during the final day of the conference. Click to read more.

October 2008

Dr Michael Peters, Senior Research Fellow, Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and the Environment (RESOLVE): - Invited to give a one-hour lecture to ~100 school pupils age 11-13 on climate change and lifestyles, Wednesday 8th October, 6:30-7:30pm Edgeborough Co-educational Preparatory School, Farnham, Surrey. Click to read more.

October 2008

Professor Tim Jackson's recently published article, "Special report: Why politicians dare not limit economic growth".

SCRATCH the surface of free-market capitalism and you discover something close to visceral fear. Recent events provide a good example: the US treasury's extraordinary $800 billion rescue package was an enormous comfort blanket designed to restore confidence in the ailing financial markets. By forcing the taxpayer to pick up the "toxic debts" that plunged the system into crisis, it aims to protect our ability to go on behaving similarly in the future. This is a short-term and deeply regressive solution, but economic growth must be protected at all costs.

As economics commissioner on the UK's Sustainable Development Commission, I found this response depressingly familiar, click to read more.

October 2008

Oxford Ecological Economics Lecture Series, click to read more.

August 2008

Resolve's Second Year Annual Report released – Click for PDF.

April 2008

Newly published RESOLVE Working Paper 'Motivating Individual Carbon Reduction Through Local Government-Led Community Initiatives in the UK: The Role of Local Government as an Agent of Social Change' - Click for PDF or click on Publications (above) to be taken to the Publications page.