Projects

Browse the project list below or filter based on the following criteria

 

We carry out our work in six main areas, listed below. We sometimes conduct research outside of these core specialisms, and these projects can be found using the keyword search facility above.

Behaviour change

Behaviour change, lifestyles and wellbeing

Our research into behaviour change (theory and implementation) and consumer lifestyles...

Business and sustainability

Our work on behaviour change and resource use in partnership with commercial organisations...

Climate change

From carbon footprinting to exploring consumer attitudes to pro-environmental behaviours...

Communities

From evaluations of community projects and funds to investigations into social capital, diffusion and social networks...

Food

Everything from the climate impacts of food, to food labelling, retail and food waste...

Waste and resources

Recycling, waste minimisation and consumer engagement...

Brook Lyndhurst Blog

  • 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 [...] 

  • 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 [...] 

  • 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 [...]