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Sherilyn MacGregor In spring 2013, amid growing public discontent with energy companies, news broke that British retailer Marks and Spencer [...]

Jessica Paddock and Alan Warde The challenges associated with mitigating climate change make us ever more aware of the need [...]

Luke Yates Household sizes are diminishing over most of the world, and the number of people living alone has increased massively [...]

Margit Keller and Bente Halkier   Browsing the news on a smartphone app before dozing off at midnight (even though the [...]

Mike Hodson and Andrew McMeekin The current organisation of transport systems in the UK, as in many other Western countries, [...]

Victoria Johnson and Frank Geels In 1979, an Austrian sawmill owner installed the country’s first biomass district heating (BMDH) plant, [...]

Alison Browne, Leonie Dendler, Zhu Di, and Dunfu Zhang China has rapidly developed a notion of the consumer and of domestic [...]

Harold Wilhite Consumption in India has been growing rapidly for three decades, putting enormous pressure on local environments as well [...]

Dale Southerton and Jo Mylan As preparation for the UK Government’s ‘Green Deal’ programme a series of trials were undertaken [...]

Jennifer Whillans In the UK around 15 million tonnes of food is wasted annually, equivalent to around a third of [...]