September 2011

A thoughtful piece in today's Telegraph from the RSPB's acting head of sustainable development, Simon Marsh, who was one of 4 individuals asked by government to create a draft of the new proposed planning bill.  His insights into that process,...

To Bradford for an Ellen MacArthur Foundation session at the British Science Festival.  One refreshing thing about the EMF is its steadfast refusal to use words and concepts like eco / sustainable / green – largely on the grounds that...

I have been reading Environmental Education: principles and practice, published by Edward Arnold in 1978, and edited by Sean McBirney Carson.  Odd, you might think, given its venerable 33 years ageing on my bookshelves, but I delved into it for...

Yesterday found me reading about the Hadow report after a goodly few years.  I remember it was an important part of my teacher training in the heady early 1970s, and then had a prominent mention in the PGCE programme I...

I wasn't going to go to the 2012 UN Jamboree in Rio anyway, as my personal carbon budget will not bear the cost.  However, had I been looking for an additional reason (other than avoiding the existential horror of yet...

Last Sunday, The Observer asked how can we make our schools fit for the 21st Century, which is a question that many of those of us who are interested in sustainability are asking all the time.  It did this by...

I had to go to Sweden in the 1980s to hear the phrase "cultural landscape" and to listen to discussions about its evolution through time and human social and economic practice.  Then, the concept seemed almost second nature to my...

When even English Heritage is moved to dump on you from its rarified height, even this government must recongise something's up.  EH has joined the NT in rubbishing the draft national planning policy framework.  Although its website remains silent on...

Deep Green Resistance (an equally deep ambiguity there) is a book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith & Aric McBay.  Derrick is [the] leading voice of uncompromising dissent, Lierre is a radical feminist activist from California who has been arrested six...