Or how to cut 50% CO2 from 1997 levels and still have a life?

• we're all dependent on power - you can get used to not having power a few hours a day
• car free days
• when you travel you get used to inconvenience
• fluctuations of the environment part of “nature” not nature (like nature)
• back-up system
• everyday practices: cycling, baths, internet/computer, bottled vs tap water
• economic determination (by state, bottom line $)

Assimilation

• planned power shutdowns and water breaks in Bangalore, India (physically and emotionally)
• how do we handle these shifts in our environment?

Cause → Effect

• creating a direct correlation between our actions and their effect in order to facilitate investment in meaningful change

• Dirk Fleischmann's 'Empire' project (a field of solar panels)

young people

• mixed messages, consciousness vs consumption - how to make the link?
• unclear messages
• too busy
• convincing sceptics
• no fundamental conviction - behaviouralism
• weatherchanging
• does recycling work?
• what is garbage (add lifestyle waste)?
• eco-digi-art - high consumption form - to express the opposite
• what is a sustainable bra ('uplifting project')?
• Ingrid Bachmann: The Institute of Everyday Life
• city schools / schools without walls / exploding schools (canberra)
• wizer - recycling
• Heather Roger's film
• bamboo
• environmental economics