Instances of direct and noticeable action, usually by members of a social movement, to achieve a result, usually a political or social one. Can include, amongst others, direct-action protest, judicial, internet, literary, economic, and academic activism.
The use of creative practices and artistic experiences as a means to engage people with energy and climate-related issues.
Programmes and initiatives put in place in an attempt to change the perspectives and behaviours of individuals believed to be rational yet information-deficient.
Involves people coming together in groups to define and explore an issue, problem, or question in a participatory and egalitarian way. This typically involves initiatives that seek to open up processes of innovation, including technological innovation, to wider society by actively involving all interested and affected parties in the design process to help ensure a product or service meets their different needs.
Community-based activities that increase the understanding, engagement and/or empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of local services. Typically involves innovative collectives that develop bottom-up solutions to problems of energy and climate change (e.g. community energy groups).
Individuals acting as sovereign consumers who are able to freely choose from a range of products and services, exercise their legal consumer rights, and/or exercise some controlling power over the market by punishing or a rewarding a business for their behaviours and practices.
A prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention where actors take up different – often conflicting or adversarial – positions.
Processes where small groups of citizens – often called ‘mini publics’ – are brought together in an extended period of deliberation or dialogue to learn about an issue, deliberate with each other, and come to a collective view on how to address it.
Various social data collection techniques that seek to elicit knowledge, information or opinions from individuals (e.g. surveys, interviews, focus groups).
Instrumental, routine and often mundane activities of everyday living (such as cooking, washing, mobility, entertainment) that consume energy and/or have a carbon commitment.
Economic incentives that seek to either encourage individuals to change their behaviour or support the uptake of new green energy solutions.
The formal process of government and public policy administration where publics and social groups engage through voting or campaigning on behalf of different political parties.
Projects involving the testing, trialling. and demonstration of new energy technologies in a real-world environment.
A geographical or virtual space in which people with shared interests, especially in computing or technology, can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge.
Any form of public engagement with energy or climate-related issues in the digital sphere.
Sets of ideas, concepts, metaphors, discourses, and/or storylines about energy or climate-related issues – typically revolving around past experiences or future change.
The flow of information about a product, service, or issue offered from a marketer or other authority to the public to overcome their information deficiency and, ultimately, inform “better” behaviours.
Processes of introducing new energy or low carbon technologies into domestic settings and everyday life that might include the renovation and retrofitting of energy- inefficient households.
Citizens who take an active role in addressing energy and climate change-related issues on their own terms.
A community that takes an active role in addressing energy and climate change-related issues on their own terms – typically engaged in so called bottom-up or grassroots innovation processes.
People with a strong belief in desired social, political, economic, or environmental change that take part in activities and events, such as public protests, to try to make this happen.
A community directly affected by a decision and/or development – often in a shared local area or place.
A sample of individuals selected to be statistically representative of a wider population.
Relatively passive recipients, listeners, and/or spectators of energy or climate-related communications.
Members of the public taking part in a consultation process organised by a decision authority.
Individuals, often assumed to be rational actors, that consume energy or products with a carbon footprint. Located ‘downstream’ in the energy system, with a set range of choices available, including the option of self-producing part of their electricity needs.
Citizens who actively introduce new ideas, systems, or practices through original and creative thinking.
Individuals interested in specific energy issues or technologies who are actively involved in discussions around these issues.
Members of the public with no pre-defined interest in or specialist knowledge of the issue under discussion.
A group with a special interest in energy or climate-related issues because of special demographic or other characteristic that distinguish them from the general population.
Actors with an interest or active stake in an issue who represent the views of others in groups to which they belong. Usually specialists or practitioners in a field.
Individuals enrolled into using a specific energy or climate-related technology, service or system.
Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Removal is a broad family of technologies and approaches used to capture, use, or permanently store or remove carbon dioxide (CO2) resulting from human activity.
A change in climate patterns apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards attributed largely to the increased levels of carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels, with a series of regional and global impacts posing increasing threats to humanity and the planet, and prompting increasing calls for aggressive climate change mitigation.
Concerns around achieving and maintaining socially desirable levels of comfort and wellbeing through the use of energy to create healthy indoor living environments conducive of conducting routine everyday practices in an unthinking manner.
Community energy covers aspects of collective action to reduce, purchase, manage and generate energy. Community energy projects have an emphasis on local engagement, local leadership and control, and the local community benefiting collectively from the outcome
The transition to an economic system that sustainably reduces and compensates the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂). The long-term goal is to create a CO₂-free (net zero) global economy.
Instrumental and routine activities and behaviours of everyday living (e.g. laundering, cooking, cleaning, etc.) that involve the use of energy-consuming devices and appliances.
A process whereby a domestic consumer takes over some of the activities previously performed by an energy producer/ provider, usually by directly involving themselves in the production of energy through domestic renewable sources.
Marketplaces through which regulated entities or individuals either: (a) buy and sell energy, or (b) trade emissions permits (allowances) or offsets in order to meet predetermined regulatory targets.
Concerns and visions around the future production, distribution and use of energy and its associated climatic impacts.
The consumption of energy for human activities, and associated attempts to reduce energy use in everyday life through the adoption of novel and efficient technologies.
Concerns around or efforts to democratize the production and management of energy resources – including the social ownership of energy infrastructure, decentralization of energy systems, and expansion of public participation in energy-related policymaking.
Energy generation, transmission, distribution, and management systems that are essential to all infrastructures and every aspect of the economy given high levels of interconnection.
Energy justice is a concept that tries to combat injustices within energy systems. It is based upon the idea that justice principles should be applied to anything energy-related, whether it be extraction, production, consumption, activism, security, or climate change.
Concerns around the broader environmental and landscape impacts of energy – including concerns over the impacts of energy infrastructures on local landscapes and ecosystems, and of unsustainable energy use.
Any of a class of hydrocarbon-containing materials of biological origin occurring within Earth’s crust (e.g. coal, petroleum, natural gas, oil shales, bitumens, tar sands, and heavy oils) that are extracted using a variety of techniques (e.g. fracking, offshore drilling, mining, etc.) and are subsequently used as a source of energy.
A state where individuals struggle to meet the required fuel/energy costs of their household. Extreme cases of energy poverty are defined as those where household energy costs are well above the national median level, and where householders would be left with a residual income below the official poverty line if they were to spend that amount of money on energy and fuel.
The deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental process that affects the earth’s climate, in an attempt to counteract the effects of climate change. Can include Solar Radiation Management and Greenhouse Gas Removal.
Use of equipment or devices (e.g. central heating, air-conditioning, etc.) to mechanically adjust the temperatures in a building.
The process of upgrading, improving or retrofitting outdated homes that typically involves both aesthetic updates, as well as employing one or more energy-efficiency measures to maximize occupant comfort and reduce energy use.
Homes with reduced greenhouse gas emissions following significant investement in smart, low carbon, or energy efficiency technologies.
The energy released during nuclear fission or fusion, especially when used to generate electricity.
Energy from a source that is not depleted when used, such as wind, solar, wave, tidal, or geothermal power.
Devices or systems using information and communication technology (ICT) and controls to enable optimal network control, optimal use of energy or equipment, increased quality and reliability of power supply, facilitation of the integration of renewable energy sources, optimal planning of the transmission and distribution systems, and the development of the use of distributed generation.
Drawing on ideas from a diverse range of lines of thought such as environmental sciences, political ecology, ecological economics, feminist political ecology, and environmental justice, proponents of social and economic change point to the social and ecological harm caused by the pursuit of infinite economic growth in fossil-fuel dominated economy, and put forth radically alternative visions of society.
Concerns around the state of the environment, principally in relation to the depletion of natural resources, and the decline in the number, genetic variability, and variety of species, and the biological communities in a given area.
Sustainable living is the practice of making conscious lifestyle choices that reduce a person’s impact on the environment. Individuals who embrace sustainable living philosophies aim to reduce their everyday carbon footprint and conserve Earth’s resources.
The movement of people or goods using a diverse array of means (e.g. private car, public transport, shipping, aviation, cycling, road transport, etc.) that are variably sustainable.
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