CBSM Strategy for Phosphorous Reduction

There was quite a bit of interest in the report that I posted last month on Backyard Composting CBSM in Langley, BC. In order to help facilitate sharing of information, I am going to try to make more of our reports available, with the permission of our clients. We undertook the Rondeau Bay Community-Based Social […]

Backyard Composting CBSM report

Thumbs Up!

I have had several requests for the report Lura Consulting (http://www NULL.lura NULL.ca) wrote for the Community-based Social Marketing (http://cbsm NULL.com) backyard composting project we did with the Township of Langley (http://www NULL.tol NULL.ca). In order to make it more readily accessible, I am posting it here (http://www NULL.beyondattitude NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/LangleyBYC_CBSM_FinalReport NULL.pdf). The report will be […]

RCBC Conference 2011 – Proceedings Posted

Backyard Composter image

I had a wonderful time at the Recycling Council of British Columbia (http://rcbc NULL.bc NULL.ca)‘s annual waste management conference in Whistler, BC. The presentations were great, I connected with a bunch of friends I had not seen in quite a while, and made lots of new ones. It really was an excellent and well-run conference, […]

Another Kind of Commitment

Vegetables growing on farm

Community-based Social Marketing strategies rely heavily on securing commitment. The idea is to get someone to make a verbal, written or public commitment to undertake a preferred behaviour. Behavioural science tells us, and our own experience proves it, that someone who makes a commitment to adopt a behaviour is much more likely to do so […]

New CBSM book available

What Works

Doug McKenzie-Mohr’s new book is now available at Amazon (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.ca/Social-Marketing-Protect-Environment-Works/dp/1412991293/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303181436&sr=8-1). I don’t have my copy yet, but I did have a chance to review 4 chapters before it was published, and on that basis I heartily recommend it. (http://www NULL.beyondattitude NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DMM_book_what_works1 NULL.jpg) The well-organized text explores different Community-based Social Marketing Campaigns in a […]