Going green
APA is fostering environmental sustainability on several fronts.
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ast year’s unrelenting heat in Texas, severe hurricanes in Vermont, and October snow storms are a reminder of the seriousness of global climate change and how our current decisions will affect future generations.
Recognizing this, APA and its members are working to apply psychology’s knowledge on
human behavior to help protect the environment and to prepare people to cope with changes already taking place. Those efforts include collaborating with other scientific societies to better teach undergraduates about the environmental, economic and social dimensions of
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - February 2012