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"Growing up green" study findings by Rebecca Collins
Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 9:44AM Last year, Rebecca Collins of the University of Chester examined how the Going Carbon Neutral Project influenced young people and if their behaviours went beyond the village. Rebecca has prouced this short summary of her findings...
“I think the impact that it has on the young people in those towns you know, one to many and then one to many again if you can inspire a group of individuals who will become more involved in politics and move to another city and start to try and replicate those things and spreading it.” (Project Participant 4)
In 2018 I was awarded a Small Research Grant by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) to investigate the extent to which the individual and household behaviours associated with carbon neutral living, promoted through Ashton Hayes’s ‘Going Carbon Neutral’ (GCN) project, travelled beyond the village. Given my research interest in the ways that young people engage with climate change/sustainability initiatives, my project specifically explored whether young adults who had ‘grown up green’ in the village during Ashton’s push towards carbon neutrality were able to carry that ‘greening’ with them – both in terms of aspiration and practice – as they moved on from the village to form independent households elsewhere.
