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Our ‘Behavior Change for the Environment’ Community

The BE. Center incubates and supports behavior change for the environment. This platform is a learning network of advocates, researchers, practitioners and students. Or simply, doers and thinkers tackling human behavior as a key element of conservation solutions. Join us.

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Check out these great ways to get involved:

LEARN

We build practitioners’ abilities to integrate behavioral science and behavior-centered design into their work.

We translate cutting edge research in the behavioral sciences and make it accessible. Our partnerships with scholars create better field-based learning opportunities.

We source, highlight and promote innovative behavioral solutions to environmental challenges. Since 2010, the BE. Center has run Solution Search, a global contest to identify existing solutions harnessing behavioral science to solve pressing environmental challenges.
DESIGN

Request specialized advice from our in-house experts. The BE.Center offers training solutions to your programming challenges across the globe.

Co-develop tools and resources for sharing with the wider conservation community. What works? How can we scale better?

Get customized in-person behavior centered design training for your organization or attend one of ours.
CONNECT

Attend one of our events or webinars.

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Explore our member directory of behavioral science experts, researchers and changemakers in the environmental field. Share insights from your programming, brainstorm, rinse, repeat.

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I’m working out how to use what I learned—from the gifted teachers and the fabulous participants—in my own life and activities. I encourage those of you who want your efforts to preserve the natural world to have meaningful outcomes to participate in the BE. Center's next workshop.

Marilyn Kupetz

Curator & Editor, MITRE's Knowledge-driven Enterprise blog

The BE.Center is producing useful, sharp, and illuminating guidance that can really make a difference in solving big challenges for people and the planet.

Cass Sunstein

Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and Co-author of "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" (2009)

Learning how students from different universities use different tactics to tackle sustainability was fascinating. It reminded me that society is diverse, and to make real change, we have to be cognizant of our and others’ biases and behaviors.

Nora van Horn

Sophomore, Penn State University