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Pat each other on the back! You’ve just finished your first session! If you’ve prepared a fun activity as part of
your first session, then you’re just a few minutes away from enjoying it together! Congratulations!

Before Your Next Session
Your next session is on waste and consumer power. Between now and then try and do the following things:

• Before you go today, decide as a group what date and time you’ll meet up again for your next session
and where you’ll meet (same place? Or maybe another group member’s house?)
• Agree to have a quick squiz at the waste and consumer power chapter before you meet up (it’s only
take a few minutes to scan) and make mental notes of any changes you want to make in your home

• Between now and the next workshop, try to objectively observe your shopping habits and how much
single-use stuff like tissues, paper towels, coffee cups and plastic bags and bottles you have to chuck
out, and how many times you have to empty the trash bins around your house.

FINAL TIP The way we form habits has a lot to do with belief and our sense of self-efficacy – so if we think to
ourselves ‘I can do this, and I will do it’ – we’re more likely to carry out our desired action.

Start your fun activity!

1 D. Ivanova et al (2015), ‘Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption’, 20:3 Journal of Industrial
Ecology.

2 Australia’s annual carbon dioxide emissions from consumption is 17 tonnes per person, the global average is 5
tonnes: Global Carbon Atlas (2013), ‘CO2 Emissions’. For rankings on per capita greenhouse gas emissions see Next
10 (2015), California Green Innovation Index.

3 See for example, B. Bollinger and K. Gillingham (2012), ‘Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels’
31:6 Marketing Science.

4 For more information on socially contagious behaviour, see, for example, T Rosenberg (2011) Join the Club: How
Peer Pressure Can Transform the World and K Ball et al (2010), ‘Is healthy behavior contagious: associations of social
norms with physical activity and healthy eating’, 7:86 International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical
Activity.

5 The information and suggested activities in this booklet are based on scientific research on sustainable behaviour
change from the academic disciplines of behavioural economics and psychology. For more information, see, for
example, Douglas McKenzie-Mohr (2011), Fostering Sustainable Behaviour and Dan Ariely et al (2014), Hacking
Human Nature for Good: A Practical Guide to Changing Human Behavior.

6 See e.g. L. Evans et al (2012), ‘Self-interest and pro-environmental behaviour’, 3:122-125 Nature Climate Change.
Research into positive spillover for environmentally sustainable behaviours is relatively new - it appears positive
spillover only occurs some of the time and is shaped by the individual’s sense of identity and values, and the
perceived similarity of the behaviours being adopted. See J. Thøgersen (2012), Pro-Environmental Spillover: Review
of Research on the Different Pathways Through Which Performing One Pro-Environmental Behaviour Can Influence
the Likelihood of Performing Another, BehaviourWorks Australia.

7 Just kidding.

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