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Guility or Empowered? New Greendex Study Reveals the Role of Culture in Consumer Behavior

by Shannon Arvizu August 1, 2012 Framer Reads the News

A new Greendex study reveals an apparent contradiction in international attitudes and behavior towards the environment. On the one hand, countries that rank high on green consumer behavior also “feel guilty” for not doing more. On the other hand, countries that rank low on green consumer behavior (the U.S. included) also “feel empowered” that they [...]

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How to Connect Extreme Weather to Climate Change? Use Social Math

by Shannon Arvizu June 21, 2012 Framer Reads the News

“No longer is global warming an abstract concept, affecting faraway species, distant lands or generations far in the future. Instead, climate change becomes personal. Its hand can be seen in the corn crop of a Maryland farmer ruined when soaring temperatures shut down pollination or the $13 billion in damage in Nashville, with the Grand [...]

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How to Frame Climate Change to the Tea Party?

by Shannon Arvizu September 9, 2011 Framing in the Field

While this may come as not much of a surprise, a new study by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication finds that the 12% of voters who identify as members of the Tea Party mostly dismiss global warming. The report entitled,  ”Politics & Global Warming: Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and the Tea Party,” reports how members [...]

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Framer Reads the News: Complicating Issues of Budgets and Taxes

by Robert Shore April 12, 2011 Framer Reads the News

FrameWorks senior researcher Eric Lindland recently stumbled upon this advertisement in a local DC newspaper. What’s the problem we want to solve? The imminent destruction of the planet. As strategic framers, we know that using crisis to get the public interested in your issue will generally backfire. Crisis as a frame can encourage a sense of helplessness. In [...]

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