July 2018

  • When UKSSD meets DfID ...

    I am mildly encouraged that UKSSD has been invited by DfID to discuss its report, Measuring up, on the Sustainable Development Goals in the UK and how this might contribute to the UK’s contribution (it's a Voluntary National Review) to the...

  • Those optional NSS questions

    Thanks to the NUS, there is now an optional bank of questions on sustainability in the UK's National Student Survey [NSS].  It has taken five years or so to get them there, and they have changed a bit on their...

  • New Ofscoff battle against rogue cucumbers

    I have written about the malign influence of Ofscoff [1], the independent government Office for Strictures and Control on Fodder and Food, before.  Yesterday, it was forced to issue an abject apology to supermarkets. Offscoff's Director of Diminishing Expectations, Dr Cuddie Headrigg,...

  • Sufficiency Economy Philosophy

    I've been reading Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century: The State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia which is available here. The fact that there are two pages of acronyms tells you it's going to be heavy...

  • 71 percent of housewives in East Lancashire ...

    I was struck by two things in a recent report by RenewableUK (a trade body) which said this: "66% of respondents to a new poll of 3,609 adults said they would like to see onshore wind farms built where it has local support;...

  • New Thinking in Sustainability and EE

    NAAEE is hosting a webinar on New Thinking in Sustainability and EE in which Marc Stern and I are introducing our respective books – although it would have been more instructive, perhaps, had we been invited to introduce each other's books; much...

  • Diesel death

    Irony indeed that the country almost ran out of CO2 the other week, just as the demand for gassy beer was rising.  If only there were a simple way of getting the stuff out of the air.  If only ......

  • The UN swoons at the feet of EAUC

    I hear there were ecstatic scenes in New York with much whooping 'n' hollering when EAUC's finest presented their SDG Accord to last week's UN Low Level Political Forum (LLPF).  UN spokesperson, Prof Dr Dr Fatima O'Gui-Gbahou, said the following...

  • For the love of the Earth

    I was reminded a few days ago of a John Race poem, Gaia, which I first read more than 10 years ago.  What follows is from memory and may not be quite as Race wrote it as I've lost sight...

  • Blowing bubbles with Mrs M

    I’ve done lots of enjoyable things these last few days, but by far the most fulfilling was blowing bubbles with my granddaughter and Mrs M.  The Chancellor was only with us in spirit but we launched a joyous stream of bubbles in...