Exploring catalyst behaviours
Brook Lyndhurst’s ‘Exploring catalyst behaviours’ project, commissioned as part of Defra’s ongoing programme of research into pro-environmental behaviours, explores the idea that certain pro-environmental behaviours may have a knock-on effect and cause wider behaviour change.
The reports became available in December 2011, click here for more information and to access the reports.
About Brook Lyndhurst
Brook Lyndhurst is an independent research and strategy consultancy. We work on projects that are concerned with understanding, promoting and delivering sustainable development.
RECENT PROJECTS
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The animal welfare provenance of food - communicating and engaging with consumers
A rapid review of the evidence on existing interventions to engage with consumers on the animal welfare provenance of food and other related issues.
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Evaluation of the Reward and Recognition Fund (RRF)
Brook Lyndhurst are providing monitoring and evaluation support to 16 local authorities and community organisations funded through the Household Reward and Recognition Fund for Recycling and Reuse (RRF), and to carry out a programme-level evaluation. We are assisting the pilots in designing methods to gather robust quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate their impacts, both in terms of waste behaviours changes and waste tonnage reductions.
Brook Lyndhurst Blog
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Brook Lyndhurst in action: Coppicing for London Wetland Centre
The main activity for this year’s corporate volunteer day was coppicing. For those who don’t know – which at the time included a couple of us, who met the news of our activity with blank faces - coppicing is to “cut back (a tree or shrub) to ground level periodically to stimulate growth.” On the morning of [...]
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How to get ‘generation snooze’ to use fewer resources
This was originally a guest post from Brook Lyndhurst on the Green Alliance’s Green Living Blog: http://greenlivingblog.org.uk/ To use our resources more sustainably, do we ‘just need to wake up’? This is the suggestion from Generation Awake, an EU campaign fronted by three singing shopping bags, which was launched last month with the aim of making [...]
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Brook Lyndhurst success at CIWM awards
It is not often that we at Brook Lyndhurst leave our spreadsheets behind and dress up for an awards ceremony, but we were proud and honoured to be informed that our Household Waste Prevention – A Review Of Evidence paper was to be awarded the James Jackson medal at the CIWM Professional Awards 2011. The [...]