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Video: David Fell speaking at the Abergavenny Food Conference

March 23, 2012 – 9:17 pm

We’ve recently come across this video of David’s speech at the 5th Annual Abergavenny Food Conference on 16th September, 2011. David spoke on topics including sustainable consumption and shopping behaviours, and explored some of the reasons why gaps between values and action on buying local food exist. Below is the video, courtesy of Miller Research [...]

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Do consumers hold the key to a low carbon economy?

October 26, 2009 – 6:39 pm

On Friday I went to the launch of the Sustainable Consumption Institute’s report, ‘Consumers, business and climate change’. The conference had an impressive line up of speakers, including the CEOs of Tesco, Coca Cola, Unilever, SC Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser, as well as the chief executive of WWF, Robert Putnam (the academic who brought the [...]

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