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Footpaths: studying a small-group intervention
Jill FisherInstitute of Energy and Sustainable Development
De Montfort University
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• Do participants in Footpaths adopt more sustainable lifestyles?
• Why?
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Method
• First round of groups
– 5 groups– 27 people
• Second round
– 4 groups– 30 people
• Questionnaire• Carbon FootprintPre-group
Post-group
During groups
One year anniversary of group start
Observation
• Questionnaire• Carbon Footprint• Home energy use• Transport energy use• Interview
• Questionaire• Carbon Footprint• Home energy use• Transport energy use
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Does behaviour change?
• Carbon footprint
• Frequency of pro-environmental behaviours
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UK Average - 6.7 tonnes
4.1 - Neighbourhood4.0 - Quaker4.2 - Church4.4 - LGBT 3.9 - Ad hoc
Partial Carbon Footprint
Post group reduction
10% - Neighbourhood10% - Quaker 9% - Church 4% - LGBT10% - Ad hoc
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Frequency of pro-environmental behaviours
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Actions being taken as a result of participating in Footpaths
150 actions in total
• Average of 6 per participant
• 89% are changes in behaviour
• 9% are changes to insulation
• 2% other minor or major
purchases
5 most popular
• Turning heating down
• Reduce car travel
• More local food/in season
food
• Monitoring of home energy
use
• Less meat and dairy
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Future actions planned as a result of participating in Footpaths
84 actions in total
• Average of 3.5 per participant
• 54% are changes in behaviour
• 24% are changes in insulation
• 23% other minor or major
purchases
5 most popular
• Grow more food
• Install PV
• Insulate house walls
• Other insulation
• Water Butts
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Why?
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Who are the participants
• Demographics• Age
• Gender
• Income
• Education
• Car ownership
• Measures of greeness• New Ecological Paradigm
• DEFRA segments
• Initial carbon footprints
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What participants say
During the course of the interviews participants expressed a prior concern with sustainable living:
“I’d been interested in the whole kind of sustainable living thing for quite a long time.”
“Right, well I’ve been in interested in environmental things for a long time. I’ve been a member of FoE since 1973.”
“I’ve always been interested in things green, I’ve never been particularly focused on the carbon footprint reduction side of things so I thought that was interesting.”
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What may have facilitated behaviour change
• Changes in measures
– Pre-group to post-group changes in
• Understanding
• Attention and awareness
• Self-efficacy
• Competence (perceived ease)
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What participants say
It helped them to look at what they were actually doing:
“I mean the original carbon footprint quite amazed me because I didn’t think originally we were that far away from the average and yet I wouldn’t say that our lifestyle as I saw it was that consumerist”
“Some of the exercises were definitely quite telling, you know, what I thought I did and what I actually did were not necessarily tallying”
“Probably the sharp bringing up with a few things and it’s made me far more aware,… whereas I would have thought about surface level things, it has made me aware of underlying stuff”
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What participants say
It encouraged them to pay attention to the issue:
“Again it just brings it to the forefront of your mind so you are thinking about it because I think that’s the problem”
“I don’t feel it was a huge learning curve for me, the actual information, I think it just brought it more to the fore”
“ For a long time it’s been in the background of my head and just talking about it brings it to the forefront maybe”
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What participants say
It helped them to make changes:
“It was a chance to think about the different subjects really, to break down the whole issue into different subjects.”
“I’ve got a more positive feeling about my own ability to do something about my carbon footprint.”
“I think it pushed it up the priority agenda for me. I am quite busy so it would be something I’m thinking I really want to do that, I really want to do that, but actually not creating the space and time to do it whereas attending this has actually made me think you are calling it a priority so why aren’t you doing something about it”
“It gave me thinking space and ideas about how to live a greener life”
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• Do participants in Footpaths adopt more sustainable lifestyles?
• Do they make changes in their lives
• Why?
• Who are the participants• What changes in participants• What do participants identify as important to them in
changing their behaviour
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Thank you
Any questions?
This research is supported by De Montfort University. I am grateful to the Footpaths Project and the group participants for their co-operation. I would also like to thank
my supervisors Katherine N Irvine, Richard Bull and Andrew Reeves
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