February 2017

  • Sobering thoughts about renewable electricity

    I have a stake, as you know, in a renewable energy future.  As one of the co-owners of Semington A which contributes in a modest way to the grid's attempts to keep the lights on, I keep an eye on prices...

  • Fox news – Fake news

    Deep in the night, a conversation about the bad press that foxes tend to get about what is claimed to be their habit of killing for the hell of it – think corpse-strewn hen houses across the land, bereft small-holders, curtailed egg...

  • Thinking about Tbilisi

    I've just written an article for NAEE's latest journal which will shortly appear – Vol 114.  It looks back to 1979 and the impact of the Tbilisi declaration on environmental education in England.  Here it is: 40 Years on from...

  • The name's Bond, SDG Bond

    Bond says it is the "civil society network for global change [that] brings people together to make the international development sector more effective". Bond hosts the Bond SDGs Group, which it says brings together 150 organisations in the UK who focus...

  • Lies, damned lies, post-lies and mere untruths

    If there are half-truths, as there are, there must be half-lies as well.  So when is a lie not a lie?  When is it, for example, merely an untruth?  The Economist's Johnson column [ A taxonomy of dishonesty ] looked...

  • If you were an elephant ...

    I've written about Charles Foster before – and shall do so again when I've slowly come to the end of his magisterial Being a Beast.  However, at the rate I'm going, I may never finish it as it's one of those books...

  • A Green Light in the South-west for a lot of presentation

    I'm told that Green Light South-west will be holding an ESD Teachmeet next month.  I've never been to one of those (sheltered life, etc), and so I'm going along on March 2nd.  I do wonder, though, whether I'll (or anyone else) will...

  • Wolves, Wolverhampton Trump and The Wanderers

    Now that the Trump administration has banned Wolves from entering the USA because of their plans to lay waste to native American sheep, there has been a flurry of protest on social media from #wolfactive, #letsre-wildthewolf, #wolvesagogo, #friendsofthewolf, #wolvesRus, #lawyers4wolves, etc,...

  • Are we as disconnected from nature as some would have us believe?

    Thanks to the NAEE blog for alerting me to a piece by Rob Bushby in The Scotsman. Bushy is the awards manager for the John Muir Trust and he was writing about whether children are really as disconnected from nature as we're...

  • Building bridges, not walls in London

    This was the slogan of an event in London on Sunday which I missed.  It was billed as a national summit and had the title: TRUMP BREXIT & BEYOND It was organised by NUS, SOAS student union and LIBER8 Education....