These new technologies and the services that support them enable new highly energy intensive behaviours.
Using in-depth interview data collected from 20 households in 2006, this paper explores these energy intensive behaviours, using the example of the use of televisions.
In doing so, it illustrates how the design and marketing of consumer electronics, and the services which support them, actively encourage energy intensive behaviours and how householders are reconfiguring their homes and lifestyles to fit these behaviours.
Lifestyle diabetes programmes with proven effectiveness have used resource-intensive behaviour change strategies involving multiple one-to-one patient contacts which are incompatible with routine healthcare settings given competing health care needs and resource and infrastructure limitations [ 10].
Clean cities are clean in part because they have clean alternatives (like, say, transit), which means that residents can easily substitute away from carbon-intensive behaviours.
Our results suggest that intensive travel behaviour is, at least partly, explained by the perception of travel time and its cost.
It is foreseen that in the future most young adults will attend university where, our study shows, they will be exposed to frequent and intensive drinking behaviour.
This latter point is significant because, as householders change their homes and daily lives to fit energy intensive consuming behaviours, it will become increasingly difficult to encourage people to reduce their household energy consumption.
Based on these two contradictory observations, this paper sets out to explore intensive daily travel behaviour and to draw conclusions about what drives intensive travellers to accept such extreme travel time budgets if travel time is, indeed, useless and perceived as negative.
Subjects from workplaces assigned to the intervention group received three intensive workshops targeting behaviour change.
