January 2017

At the end (page 122) of WWF's 2016 Living Planet report we find this: The Path Ahead The facts and figures in this report tend to paint a challenging picture, yet there is still considerable room for optimism.  If we manage to...

There was a report very late last year (ie, 31st December) that the government plans to give Britain’s natural assets monetary value and include them in the national accounts.  This is, it's said, to be part of the 25-year plan...

The venerable ENSI programme seems to have taken on the role of cheerleader (in the nicest way) for the SDGs.  Its latest newsletter shows the range of its new focus.  There's a first Report on the SDG’s 2016 with a quote...

Thanks to Steve Martin for his post to SHED-SHARE just before Christmas about the EAC's comments on UK efforts at sustainable development.  Here it is: "You might like to read the recent, highly critical report from the Environment Audit Committee,...

As I've long held the view that the BBC's flagship nature documentaries, particularly those coming out of the Natural History unit in Bristol, were uninterested in the relationship between humans and the rest of nature, it's good to see that...

Just before Christmas, I was asked if I'd write 400 words on "the link between education for sustainable development and behavior" for an "an international education for sustainable development project".  This is not the sort of invitation I get all that...

Animality was an exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho that might be seen as a complement to the Wellcome exhibition which I mentioned recently.  You can see a slideshow of the images here.  This is how their press release about the...

Alas, this is one of the many unknowns about UNESCO – but at least it's a known unknown.  Perhaps it's a Stack.  One known known about it all is that those who don't know are precisely matched by those who...

There was an almost plangent tone to the message to the EE Mailbase back in December about WEEC 2017, an event, I readily confess, I'd been trying to ignore.  The message title was: Perspectives, Challenges and Innovation in Research – WEEC2017...

The lone cheetah we saw at Longleat over Christmas looked in better fettle than the Rhinos that were relentlessly pacing round their enclosure, but it wasn't exactly behaving like a cheetah.  It wasn't, for example, travelling at 29m / second chasing...