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Pro-Environmentalism: Environmentalist Social Identity, Environmentalist Stereotypes, and Green Consumerism Engagement
Pro-environmentalism: Environmentalist Social Identity, Environmentalist Stereotypes, and Green Consumerism Engagement by Annamaria Klas B.A. (Psych, Media) (Psych, Hons) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) Deakin University October, 2016 iv Acknowledgements Although this PhD is a culmination of my hard work and dedication, I could not have achieved this milestone without the help and guidance of many others. Therefore it is with great pleasure I offer a number of people with much deserved gratitude and thanks. First and foremost I begin by thanking my current supervision team of Dr Lucy Zinkiewicz and Dr Jin Zhou who although came on to this project late in the game, still treated me like I was with them from the beginning. Thanks especially to Lucy for her guidance and assistance, for her infinite enthusiasm and support, and for her extremely detailed feedback (which only helped me become a better writer). Thanks also to Jin for being so welcoming and friendly, for offering much emotional support and practical advice, and for reading multiple drafts at once (which is a feat in itself). Special thanks also goes to Dr Gery Karantzas who may have not been an ‘official’ supervisor still took me under his wing from the start, and provided me with much support, wisdom, and honesty. Thanks also to Professor Ben Richardson for always making time to provide me with statistical, professional, and common sense advice, even when he moved on to greener pastures. Further thanks to Dr Janine McGuinness, who originally begun this project with me, and to all the academics I have met through SASP. -
The Polysemy of Environmentalist Terms and Correlated Environmental Actions
Journal of Ecological Anthropology Volume 8 Issue 1 Volume 8, Issue 1 (2004) Article 4 2004 Who is an Environmentalist? The Polysemy of Environmentalist Terms and Correlated Environmental Actions Danielle Tesch University of Delaware Willett Kempton University of Delaware Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jea Recommended Citation Tesch, Danielle and Kempton, Willett. "Who is an Environmentalist? The Polysemy of Environmentalist Terms and Correlated Environmental Actions." Journal of Ecological Anthropology 8, no. 1 (2004): 67-83. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jea/vol8/iss1/4 This Research Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Anthropology at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Ecological Anthropology by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 8 2004 Tesch and Kempton / Who is an Environmentalist? 67 Who is an Environmentalist? The Polysemy of Environmentalist Terms and Correlated Environmental Actions DANIELLE TESCH WILLETT KEMPTON Abstract Conducting and interpreting an interview is more problematic when informants use a word that has multiple meanings and interpretations. In this case, the problematic word, “environmentalist,” labeled several socially- defined identities that were central to the study. The analysis is based on interviews with 156 members of 20 diverse environmental groups (and two comparison groups) in the Eastern United States, including their views on -
Fiscal Year 2018 Audited Financial Statements
350.ORG FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 350.ORG TABLE OF CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 Pages Independent Auditors’ Report ................................................................................................ 3-4 Financial Statements Statement of Financial Position ......................................................................................... 5 Statement of Activities ...................................................................................................... 6 Statement of Cash Flows ................................................................................................... 7 Notes to Financial Statements ............................................................................................ 8-13 7910 WOODMONT AVENUE 1150 18TH STREET, NW SUITE 500 SUITE 550 BETHESDA, MD 20814 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 (T) 301.986.0600 (T) 202.822.0717 Independent Auditors’ Report Board of Directors 350.Org Washington, D.C. We have audited the accompanying financial statements of 350.Org (the Organization) (a nonprofit organization), which comprise the statement of financial position as of September 30, 2018, and the related statements of activities and cash flows for the year then ended, and the related notes to the financial statements. Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, -
Frank Zelko Research Fellow, GHI
“MAKE IT A GREEN PEACE”: THE HISTORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION Frank Zelko Research Fellow, GHI In the early 1970s, the United States Congress’s House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation held a series of hearings on the sub- ject of marine mammal protection. Among those who testified were rep- resentatives of America’s oldest and most established wilderness protec- tion groups, such as the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, and the National Wildlife Federation. Although it was important to ensure that the world’s populations of whales and seals remained as healthy as pos- sible, these organizations argued, they did not support a policy of abso- lute protection. As long as the survival of the species was ensured, they believed, it was legitimate to use its “surplus” members for the benefit of people. In his testimony before the subcommittee, Thomas Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation employed phrases such as “renewable re- sources,” “stewardship,” and “professional wildlife management.” The “harvesting of surplus wildlife populations,” his organization felt, wasan “important management tool if the continuing long-range well-being of an animal population is the ultimate objective.”1 A few years later, a group of environmental protesters off the coast of California came across a fleet of Soviet whaling boats. Using motorized inflatable dinghies, the activists positioned themselves between a whal- er’s harpoon and a fleeing pod of sperm whales, acting as human shields to protect the defenseless giants. Whaling, these activists insisted, was not merely an issue of wildlife preservation or resource stewardship. Rather, it was an unconscionable act of violence perpetrated against a species whose intelligence and sensitivity put them in the same biological cat- egory as human beings. -
Rainbow Warrior Case
1 Rainbow Warrior Case Rainbow Warrior (NEW ZEALAND v. FRANCE) France-New Zealand Arbitration Tribunal. 30 April 1990 (Jiménez de Aréchaga, Chairman; Sir Kenneth Keith and Professor Bredin, Members) SUMMARY: The facts: - In July 1985 a team of French agents sabotaged and sank the Rainbow Warrior, a vessel belonging to Greenpeace International, while it lay in harbour in New Zealand. One member of the crew was killed. Two of the agents, Major Mafart and Captain Prieur, were subsequently arrested in New Zealand and, having pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter and criminal damage, were sentenced by a New Zealand court to ten years' imprisonment.1 A dispute arose between France, which demanded the release of the two agents, and New Zealand, which claimed compensation for the incident. New Zealand also complained that France was threatening to disrupt New Zealand trade with the European Communities unless the two agents were released. The two countries requested the Secretary-General of the United Nations to mediate and to propose a solution in the form of a ruling, which both Parties agreed in advance to accept. The Secretary-General's ruling, which was given in 1986, required France to pay US $7 million to New Zealand and to undertake not to take certain defined measures injurious to New Zealand trade with the European Communities.2 The ruling also provided that Major Mafart and Captain Prieur were to be released into French custody but were to spend the next three years on an isolated French military base in the Pacific. The two States concluded an agreement in the form of an exchange of letters on 9 July 1986 ("the First Agreement"),3 which provided for the implementation of the ruling. -
Eco-Anxiety: a Discourse Analysis of Media Representations of the School Strike for Climate
Running head: YOUTH CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENT 1 Eco-Anxiety: A Discourse Analysis of Media Representations of the School Strike for Climate Movement Brittany Smith This thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the Honours degree of Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) School of Psychology Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences The University of Adelaide Submission Date: 29 September 2020 Word count: 9,083 YOUTH CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENT 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents .........................................................................................................................2, 3 List of Tables ....................................................................................................................................4 Abstract ............................................................................................................................................5 Declaration .......................................................................................................................................6 Contribution Statement ....................................................................................................................7 Acknowledgements ..........................................................................................................................8 Chapter 1: Introduction ....................................................................................................................9 1.1. Overview ...................................................................................................................9 -
Columbia University Task Force on Climate: Report
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TASK FORCE ON CLIMATE: REPORT Delivered to President Bollinger December 1, 2019 UNIVERSITY TASK FORCE ON CLIMATE FALL 2019 Contents Preface—University Task Force Process of Engagement ....................................................................................................................... 3 Executive Summary: Principles of a Climate School .............................................................................................................................. 4 Introduction: The Climate Challenge ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 The Columbia University Response ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 Columbia’s Strengths ........................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Columbia’s Limitations ...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Why a School? ................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 A Columbia Climate School ................................................................................................................................................................. -
Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: the Making of a Sensible Environmentalist
An Excerpt from Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist ou could call me a Greenpeace dropout, but that is not an entirely accurate Ydescription of how or why I left the organization 15 years after I helped create it. I’d like to think Greenpeace left me, rather than the other way around, by but that too is not entirely correct. Patrick The truth is Greenpeace and I underwent divergent evolutions. I became Moore a sensible environmentalist; Greenpeace became increasingly senseless as it adopted an agenda that is antiscience, antibusiness, and downright antihuman. This is the story of our transformations. The last half of the 20th century was marked by a revulsion for war and a new awareness of the environment. Beatniks, hippies, eco-freaks, and greens in their turn fashioned a new philosophy that embraced peace and ecology as the overarching principles of a civilized world. Spurred by more than 30 years of ever-present fear that global nuclear holocaust would wipe out humanity and much of the living world, we led a new war—a war to save the earth. I’ve had the good fortune to be a general in that war. My boot camp had no screaming sergeant or rifle drills. Still, the sense of duty and purpose of mission we had at the beginning was as acute as any assault on a common enemy. We campaigned against the bomb-makers, whale-killers, polluters, and anyone else who threatened civilization or the environment. In the process we won the hearts and minds of people around the world. -
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1 LEXINGTON LAW GROUP Howard Hirsch, State Bar No. 213209 2 Ryan Berghoff, State Bar No. 308812 Meredyth Merrow, State Bar No. 328337 3 503 Divisadero Street San Francisco, CA 94117 4 Telephone: (415) 913-7800 Facsimile: (415) 759-4112 5 [email protected] [email protected] 6 [email protected] 7 LAW OFFICE OF GIDEON KRACOV Gideon Kracov, State Bar No. 179815 8 801 S. Grand Ave., 11th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 9 Telephone: (213) 629-2071 Facsimile: (213) 623-7755 10 [email protected] 11 Attorneys for Plaintiff GREENPEACE, INC. 12 13 14 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 15 COUNTY OF ALAMEDA 16 17 GREENPEACE, INC., Case No. 18 Plaintiff, COMPLAINT 19 v. 20 WALMART, INC.; and DOES 1 through 100, 21 inclusive, 22 Defendants. 23 24 25 26 27 28 DOCUMENT PREPARED ON RECYCLED PAPER COMPLAINT 1 Plaintiff Greenpeace, Inc. (“Plaintiff” or“Greenpeace”), based on information, belief, and 2 investigation of its counsel, except for information based on knowledge, hereby alleges: 3 INTRODUCTION 4 1. The problems associated with plastic pollution are increasing on a local, national, 5 and global scale. This affects the amount of plastic in the ocean, in freshwater lakes and streams, 6 on land, and in landfills. Nearly 90% of plastic waste is not recycled, with billions of tons of 7 plastic becoming trash and litter.1 According to a new study, at least 1.2 to 2.5 million tons of 8 plastic trash from the United States was dopped on lands, rivers, lakes and oceans as litter, were 9 illegally dumped, or shipped abroad and then not properly disposed of.2 As consumers become 10 increasingly aware of the problems associated with plastic pollution, they are increasingly 11 susceptible to marketing claims reassuring them that the plastic used to make and package the 12 products that they purchase are recyclable. -
Fascist Ecology: the Gr" Een Wing" of the Nazi Party and Its Historical Antecedents Peter Staudenmaier Marquette University, [email protected]
Marquette University e-Publications@Marquette History Faculty Research and Publications History, Department of 1-1-2011 Fascist Ecology: The Gr" een Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents Peter Staudenmaier Marquette University, [email protected] Published version. "Fascist Ecology: The Gr" een Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents," in Ecofascism Revisited: Lessons from the German Experience. Eds. Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier. Porsgrunn: New Compass Press, 2011: 13-42. Permalink. © 2011 New Compass Press. PETER STAUDENMAIER FASCIST ECOLOGY: THE uGREEN WING" OF THE NAZI PARTY AND ITS HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS "We recognize that separating humanity from nature, from the whole of life, leads to humankind's own destruction and to the death of nations. Only through a re-integration of humanity into the whole of nature can our people be made stronger. That is the fundamental point of the biological tasks of our age. Humankind alone is no longer the focus of thought, but rather life as a whole . This striving toward connectedness with the totality of life, with nature itself, a nature into which we are born, this is the deepest meaning and the true essence of National Socialist thought:' 1 In our zeal to condemn the status quo, radicals often carelessly toss about epithets like "fascist" and "ecofascist;' thus contributing to a sort of conceptual inflation that in no way furthers effective social critique. In such a situation, 13 ECOFASCISM REVISITED it is easy to overlook the fact that there are still virulent strains of fascism in our political culture which, however marginal, demand our attention. -
Environmental Organizations Treaties
74 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Headquarters: Parkring 8, POB 995, A-1011 Vienna, Austria. flagship, Rainbow Warrior, while it was in Auckland Harbour, Website: http://www.ofid.org New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Mission. Greenpeace is an independent global environmental Director-General: Suleiman Jasir al-Herbish (Saudi Arabia). organization that aims to secure a planet ‘that is ecologically healthy and able to nurture life in all its diversity’. It campaigns to: prevent pollution and abuse of the Earth’sland,oceans,air and fresh water; end all nuclear threats; and promote peace, global Environmental Organizations disarmament and non-violence. Organization. Greenpeace International has its headquarters in Friends of the Earth International Amsterdam in the Netherlands, from where it co-ordinates worldwide campaigns and monitors and advises 28 national and Origin. Friends of the Earth was founded in 1971 by a network of regional offices. These provide a presence in over 40 countries. environmental activists from France, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Financial contributions from governments, political parties and Mission. The organization aims to ‘collectively ensure environ- commercial organizations are not accepted. Funding is provided mental and social justice, human dignity, and respect for human by individual supporters and foundation grants. In the 18 months rights and peoples’ rights so as to ensure sustainable societies’. to Jan. 2009, 2·9m. people took out or renewed financial membership. Organization. Friends of the Earth International comprises 74 Headquarters: Ottho Heldringstraat 5, 1066 AZ Amsterdam, national member groups, with a combined membership of Netherlands. individuals exceeding 2m. around the world in some 5,000 local Website: http://www.greenpeace.org activist groups. -
Focus on Change: a Closer Look at Climate Change Impacts in the Northeast
Focus on Change: A Closer Look at Climate Change Impacts in the Northeast A synthesis of the June 27, 2012 conference held at Pace’s Schimmel Theater in downtown Manhattan This synthesis has been drafted by the staff of the Pace Energy and Climate Center and is not a word-for-word transcript of the event. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of Pace and the text should not be used for quotations or direct attribution to speakers without the speaker's permission. What’s at Stake? Bill McKibben & 350.org The sprawling nature of the environmental movement is a bright light to emphasize before focusing on the grimmer stuff. People of all kinds are trying to do something about climate change, the greatest problem that we have ever faced. CNN has called the climate movement the “most widespread political activity in the history of the planet.” 350.org has organized 20,000 rallies in 192 countries, every nation save North Korea. Still, the fight against climate change is being lost. The level of carbon in the atmosphere is increasing, and worse, the temperature is increasing. Just this spring, researchers in the Arctic recorded CO2 concentrations of more than 400 parts per million (ppm), which is well above the 350 ppm that scientists have determined is the highest safe CO2 concentration and from which 350.org takes its name. Within 18 months, the rest of the world will catch up to the Arctic CO2 concentration, which is the highest level recorded in 800,000 years. From these sobering statistics we take renewed determination.