Bill Scott
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Bill Scott20 May 2015
The Forestry Commission misses an opportunity
Superworm is super-long. Superworm is super-strong. Watch him wiggle! See him squirm! Hip, hip, hooray for SUPERWORM! "Have a forest adventure with Superworm in 2015" – says the Forestry Commission's website. To aid this, the Commission has published a book by Julia...
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Bill Scott19 May 2015
What happened when Dave asked Gareth "a corker of a question"
EAUC 's Food for Thought last Friday afternoon was about a question posed to blogger Gareth Kane ( Ask Gareth ...) by Dave Moreman, a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. Moreman asked: How can I teach sustainability when I live unsustainably? The first thing Kane did...
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Bill Scott18 May 2015
Polli:Nation – nice title
The University of Stirling has for a full-time PhD studentship that will involve evaluating and researching aspects of a school-based citizen science and environmental education project: Polli:Nation – Citizen Science and Environmental Education in the School Grounds . This involves schools...
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Bill Scott15 May 2015
New Standards in Australian HE
There are new national standards for Environment and Sustainability in higher education across Australia whose role is to "support the design and delivery of innovative higher education in the Environment and Sustainability field". They are included in the newly published Learning and...
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Bill Scott14 May 2015
Costing the Earth whilst wasting an opportunity
I listened to last week's Costing the Earth with mounting frustration as it failed to live up to its normal high standards. The podcast is here. The show came from a foodie event in Green Bristol. It was billed as a debate,...
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Bill Scott13 May 2015
Plymouth comes of age
It was good to see Plymouth doing so well in the THE Under 50s league table published recently. I hope all that sustainability stuff they focus on so well has been part of this. The THE says: This is a ranking of...
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Bill Scott12 May 2015
Has your child had its SMSC today?
SMSC? What's that, you might be saying. If you are, you're as out of touch as I am (or was). It's the thing in schools, it seems. Although it looks rather as if it might be a food supplement [ Take SMSC everyday for...
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Bill Scott11 May 2015
ecotricity goes into the manifesto business
ecotricity has launched its 2030 vision/manifesto for the Green Britain it thinks we should be living in. Using research and modelling from Cambridge Econometrics, a consultancy, ecotricity sets out what Britain would be like in 2030 if we adopt ambitious targets for emissions reduction, renewables...
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Bill Scott8 May 2015
A poor election campaign for environmental consciousness
In Wednesday's Guardian, Tom Burke commented on the contrast between the large membership of environment-focused organisations in the UK (4.5 million members, 13% of the population: 10 times as many supporters as all the political parties combined) and the near silence...
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Bill Scott7 May 2015
More manifesto reading
Thanks to the SDRN for pointing out that Carbon Brief has produced an interactive online tracker that captures information from UK party manifestos on energy and climate change. This allows us to see comparisons of energy and climate change policy, including key...