Christian Aid: Making Extrinsic Frames History
How is it, Finding Frames asks, that while financial support for international development NGOs is increasing, public concern about global poverty is decreasing? Even after the massive Make Poverty History campaign, the report finds that public understanding of the issues is poor, and in the current climate of cuts, even support for overseas aid spending is diminishing. Finding Frames suggests that the ‘successful’ […]
Finding Common Cause in Australia
“I am already amazed at how I now hear people differently and think about what they say and how I contribute in regard to ideas. It’s been a very fundamental shift for me.” Common Cause Workshop participant after reflecting on the session Last month we held a full day Common Cause workshop with 40 people […]
Michael Sandel on “the corrosive effect of money”
We’ve drawn attention to the strong synergies between Common Cause and the work of Michael Sandel before. He’s in the UK (speaking at LSE) tomorrow, and I’ve just read his latest book – “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”. The arguments that Sandel develops in the book revolve importantly around the way […]
Are the values we instill in our children leading us towards a sustainable future?
In 2009, the children’s marketing sector was worth £100bn – and it’s still growing. A significant portion of this total is spent on food marketing, predominantly promoting energy dense, low-nutrient food and beverages – typically unhealthy for children, but marketed to exaggerate health claims – and messaging (often with the help of celebrities) to suggest […]
Talks on carbon emissions not enough: governments must lead a shift in values, says new report
The 56-page report is being launched to coincide with soul-searching in the aftermath of the Durban Climate Change Conference. It addresses the crucial question: how can governments work to create greater political space for proportional responses to environmental problems? Supported by WWF-UK and Oxfam, the report argues that past and present political objectives have not […]
Don’t mind the gap between values and action
Professor Greg Maio of Cardiff University has written a short and helpful briefing on the value-action gap. He concludes: The upshot of all this is that, in working to tackle environmental and social problems, we overlook the importance of values at our peril. It is true that we may be able to overlook values in […]
Launching the Common Cause Handbook
Tomorrow sees the launch of The Common Cause Handbook at Action for Children in London, along with the Values and Frames website. We hope you find them both useful resources. The Common Cause Handbook was basically designed to be a slimmer, lighter version of the original Common Cause report published by WWF. In it we […]
Common Cause report launched
Over the course of the last year, the Common Cause Working Group has been overseeing the production of a major new contribution to debate within the third sector. Common Cause: The Case for Working with our Cultural Values is published today, coinciding with the launch of this website. The report, published in partnership between Climate […]