{"id":2828,"date":"2020-12-10T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:43:16","slug":"behaviour-change-with-environmental-friendly-habits-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/behaviour-change-with-environmental-friendly-habits-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Behaviour change with environmental-friendly habits at home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This post originally appeared on the <\/em>Medium<\/em><\/a>, and is republished here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has prompted many organisations and individuals to re-think how they practice daily activities and adapt to a virtual environment.<\/p>\n

For conservationists and also nature lovers, being mostly confined at home limits active involvement in biodiversity conservation and options to be outdoors in nature.<\/p>\n

Along this line, a regional leg of the\u00a0IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)<\/a>\u00a0recently held a webinar for members from the Eastern and Southern African region to discuss behaviour change and the adoption of environmental-friendly habits. The discussions and tips shared provided an opportunity to reflect on our own behaviour and to aspire to be better advocates for nature. These are also no doubt relevant beyond lockdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The ABC of behaviour change<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first part of the webinar was led by Peter Paul van Kempen, psychologist and co-founder of frogleaps.org, \u201can expertise platform on<\/p>\n

communication and human behaviour change for conservation and sustainable development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter advised that the best initial approach is to focus on small behaviours first as these have greater chances of being successful and transformative in the long term. And he proposed a three-step way to start with (1) an anchor, (2) a specific behaviour and (3) a celebration (ABC):<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Anchor:<\/em>\u00a0this can be any routine in our daily activity which will be linked to any new behaviour that we wish to adopt. This for example can be opening the window, brushing teeth, eating etc.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0Behaviour<\/em>: this is the behaviour that we select to change or adopt during our anchor<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Celebration:<\/em>\u00a0this involve finding a celebration to gift ourselves with a positive emotion after putting our selected behaviour in practice. This for example can be a short dance.<\/p>\n

As explained by Peter, emotion is an important component of behaviour change.\u00a0Researchers from Stanford University<\/a>\u00a0have indeed found that emotions create habit. Associating a specific behaviour with a positive feeling indeed makes it easier for us to repeat said behaviour.<\/p>\n

Tiny habits and projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Plastic bottles can also be re-used in the garden for growing plants. \u00a9 Fabiola Monty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Linking up with Peter\u2019s suggestions, Margaret Otieno (Regional Vice Chair, Eastern and Southern Africa) proposed some concrete tiny habits that one can adopt as well as small projects to help maintain a connection with nature:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Individual water audit: to make small changes in our water use to reduce water wastage e.g. by taking shorter showers, turning off taps when not in use e.g. when brushing teeth etc.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Creating a list of birds that visit your home<\/p>\n

\u00b7 DIY and upcycling: for example, using plastic bottles to create\u00a0bird feeders<\/a><\/p>\n

Now how about starting with one small habit at a time and inspire others around us to follow?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has prompted many organisations and individuals to re-think how they practice daily activities and adapt to a virtual environment. Fabiola Monty, a writer from the Medium, explores the behaviour change and the adoption of environmental-friendly habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureforall.global\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}