Environmental variables of well being

Environment has potential policy relevance in government’s efforts to sustain wellbeing of the society. Measures should be taken to incorporate environmental variables along with unemployment, health and education as powerful indicator for wellbeing. A personal experience confirms that while my condition regarding employment, health and education did not change a different environmental condition had strong impact on my feeling happy and on more hopes and wellbeing.

Mainstreaming Environment

Addressing global warming has potential demographic implications. Mainstreaming environment consciousness and educating changes of climate has to recognize the target population for conveying its message. The message is for the society to instigate support and learning for novel way of life.

The implication is regarded from two different angels:

1- One is addressing young population in the community, that is to say entrepreneurs in the context of enhancing economic growth by creating business incentives, to embark on technological progress. This is crucial to increase efficiency and reduce excess resource depletion as well as strategic approach to export technological expertise to developing countries to avoid green taxes that hit the poor hardest.

2- At the other end there are older people in the community perhaps less engaged with recent important environmental findings. The elderly groups exited from the workforce have the potential to represent the society’s collective environmental consciousness and get involve in advocacy initiatives. By meaningful engagement we restore traditional role of wise oldmen/women to spell the word and boost everyone's consciousness. If this role is socially encouraged and becomes media-friendly then, we thrive not only to raise awareness on environmental issues and global warming but also make productive use of human resources that would otherwise hesitate involvement to tackle social issues.






Oxfordshire Climate-X-Change

A campaign to engage with Oxfordshire’s 620,000 citizens and take climate change into the community.

Climate-X-Change is about

your questions, your ideas, your solutions

pub quizzes, art competitions, the world's largest public participation climate model, and many other ways of getting involved

why thousands of people were inspired to buy shares in the UK's largest community-owned windfarm in Oxfordshire

why creating a world-leading multi-million-pound climate company in Oxford became a reality

inspiring the guy at the next table to beat climate change

the amazing amount of climate change talent in Oxfordshire: in the universities, businesses, environmental and civic groups

The Oxfordshire Climate-X-Change is led by Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute with partners from all over Oxfordshire. Climate-X-Change will run through 2007, Oxfordshire’s 1000th anniversary.

www.climatex.org