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- 16th Oct 2019
Don’t tell me what to eat!
The prospect of the state meddling with our diets is not welcomed by everyone – our food preferences are so deeply personal, aren’t they?
- Blog
- 27th Sep 2019
Designing emissions markets carefully
Professor Marty Weitzman, a giant in the field of environmental economics, passed away exactly one month ago. On his ‘month’s mind’, we reflect on Marty’s work on pricing carbon emissions.
- Blog
- 25th Sep 2019
Diets in flux
Here we take a look at some examples to see how our diets have always been in flux – and often deliberately influenced.
- Blog
- 19th Sep 2019
The meat of the problem
In our new series of blog posts, our experts explore how behavioural science can encourage us to have more sustainable diets.
- Blog
- 16th Sep 2019
The behavioural science community gathers in London
It’s nearly ten years since BIT was set up in No10 with the seemingly simple (but in reality daunting) aim of incorporating a better understanding of human behaviour into public policy, while also saving the government ten times our running costs.
- Blog
- 19th Aug 2019
Reducing household power usage during the hottest days of the year
On hot summer days, power usage in Australia skyrockets as households and businesses turn on their air conditioners. Energy usage can increase by over 45% on these days, particularly between 3pm and 6pm when both households and offices are running their air conditioning. The traditional approach to these peak-demand events…
- Blog
- 9th May 2019
Can we be more ambitious on sustainable diets?
Last week, a few doors down from where the Extinction Rebellion protests took place in Parliament Square, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) released its report on how the UK should transition to ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The key recommendation of the report is to up the…
- Report
- 4th Apr 2019
Behavior Change For Nature: A Behavioral Science Toolkit for Practitioners
We are fortunate to live in a world filled with both an abundance and diversity of life. Yet the growing scale and impact of human behaviour pose a grave risk to the natural world in irreversible ways. Deforestation, overfishing, ocean plastics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are increasingly threatening the…
Also available in: Español
- Report
- 4th Apr 2019
Cambio de comportamiento para la naturaleza: Una caja de herramientas de las ciencias del comportamiento para agentes de cambio
Somos afortunados de vivir en un mundo lleno de abundancia y diversidad de vida. Sin embargo, la escala y el impacto crecientes del comportamiento humano representan un grave riesgo para el mundo natural de manera irreversible. La deforestación, la sobrepesca, los plásticos en los océanos, la2019-Behavior-Change-for-Nature-Spanish.pdf pérdida de biodiversidad y…
Also available in: English
- Blog
- 22nd Mar 2019
Applying behavioural science to manage England’s water resources
The world is running out of water, but surely not ‘rainy Britain’, right?