Consumption
Wasted Opportunity: Decoupling Social Mobility from Resource Consumption
Author / Creator: Kate Chambers
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
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.
From ‘I’ to ‘We’: Changing the narrative in Scotland’s relationship with consumption
Author / Creator: Iain Black
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: December 2015
Studies have shown that having a positive relationship with our families, friends and community, as well as having good health, are the things that matter most to us. The job of government is to re-establish the link between that narrative and our idea of what prosperity is.
The Common Home Plan – Technical Report
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
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.