Consumption
Wasted Opportunity: Decoupling Social Mobility from Resource Consumption
Author / Creator: Kate Chambers
Media type: Policy Paper
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If Scotland is serious about reducing resource consumption, then we must wrestle with our materialistic culture, which is directly linked to aspiration and social mobility.
The Common Home Plan – Technical Report
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
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This Technical Report is an annex to The Common Home Plan, a part of Our Common Home – A Green New Deal for Scotland. The fact that this book represents the broadest and most detailed Green New Deal blueprint yet published for any country means that it covers a great many of topics in detail and thus draws upon a vast body of literature and other previously published work.
The Common Home Plan
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
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There are a number of policy tools which can be used to encourage transformative changes to our lifestyles. However, it should be noted that most of these policy tools are designed to enact structural change rather than individual change and, again, it must not be read that these can simply be introduced into a free market economy as if they will succeed in shifting those markets. They won't, at least not as a result of individual behaviours. The Plan details the the changes needed.