Sustainable Action Matters
Sustainable Action Matters is the place to meet the people who are impacting sustainability behaviors on scales that matter. We’ll explore the most effective actions for creating a greener future, and how behavioral science is applied to scale them up.
Episodes
9 episodes
Are We All On Board for Electrification? - Part 2, The Challenge of Electrifying Large Buildings - One State’s Efforts to Transform the Market
Even with the existing power mix in America’s grid, we make significant environmental gains by electrifying our buildings. Part 2 will discuss the technical and financial barriers that large building owners face in making the choice...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:23
Are We All On Board for Electrification? - Part 1, The Basics
In Part One, our experts give us the basics on the technologies and motivational challenges we face and discuss programmatic responses that could increase consumer uptake of heat pumps and other electrification strategies.Chances are tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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22:47
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Are we “Messaging” or Having a Conversation? - Reaching Communities of Color
What are we in the energy and sustainability fields getting wrong when it comes to reaching communities of color? Is it the actual message or is it something deeper? It’s an important question for a field that is overwhelmingly whit...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:46
Emotional Charge – An Artist’s Urgent Response to the Climate Emergency
In 2007, Brooklyn-based artist Eve Mosher started drawing a line. But unlike most lines that artists make, this one was drawn through neighborhoods, along streets and sidewalks, through playing fields and bus stops. Her line was dra...
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Episode 6
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29:06
Scaling (Way) Up: Changing the Energy Behaviors of a Million Service Members
Eileen Westervelt is not thinking small. Working with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, she has embarked on an effort to promote and increase energy-saving behaviors across the entirety of the U.S. Army.To this effort she brings ove...
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31:12
Just Follow the Steps: An Accessible and Proven Approach to Behavior Change
Let’s say you want your community to adopt new behaviors that lead to Increased recycling rates, or decreased energy use, or increased use of public transit…. How do you figure out where to start? How do you know what behaviors to t...
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Episode 4
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34:57
Opening Green Careers to People of Color
Sustainability has been likened to a 3 -legged stool, with legs for environmental quality, social equity and economic prosperity. Few organizations have addressed all three legs as thoroughly as the HOPE Program in New York City.
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33:32
Making the Sustainable Choice the Easy Choice
Our guest today has consistently been working on the leading edge of sustainability policy implementation and behavior change, as part of one of the most forward-acting public agencies in the U.S. Her experience has taught her the importa...
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Episode 2
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29:08
How Can We Make Recycling Simpler? (you might not like the answers)
How did recycling get so complicated? With so many categories of materials, special dropoff events and wide variation from one community to another, consumers are often unsure of how to correctly recycle the items they dispose of every day. &nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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