Bill Scott
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Bill Scott1 October 2013
Why is no one in government worried about climate change anymore?
My favoured explanation for now is that they think there's no particular urgency, compared, say, to deficit reduction, unemployment, sorting out the EU, reforming the banks, the need to keep the lights on, and the threat from Ukip [that is,...
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Bill Scott30 September 2013
Nobody sings about prawns
They never did, and never will. But herrings are a different matter, as those of you familiar with Ewan McColl's "silver darlings", know. A recent Bagehot article in the Economist about fishing in the river Clyde (well, actually about no longer...
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Bill Scott29 September 2013
From the fens to Friends of the Earth with bells on
My week began in Cambridge at EESD-13 about which I've probably said enough – except that the positive memory of it lingers. And it ended at the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust [WWT] AGM which turned out (well, almost) to be a...
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Bill Scott27 September 2013
A man with his brains caught in the mangle
I guess only a man (or perhaps a 'new man') could have written the claptrap that appeared in the Daly News the other day. I can hardly bear to copy it. He's describing going back to hand washing laundry using...
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Bill Scott25 September 2013
EESD – a couple of good questions
The highlight of Tuesday morning at EESD was not the Keynote by BP's Ellen Williams, provocative though that was (as well as being welcome in a post-Browne sense). Rather, it was the pre-presentations questions posed by the Chair of parallel...
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Bill Scott25 September 2013
EESD – a revisionist view of UBC
I've long had the view that it was the University of British Columbia [UBC] that you should look to in order to see the intersection of higher education and sustainability at its best; that is, for an integration across research,...
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Bill Scott24 September 2013
EESD: Lord Browne, and half a speech
The second keynote on day one of the conference was given by Lord Browne of Maddingley. It hadn't a title, which may have been because it didn't have much of a focus. This was a keynote that could have been...
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Bill Scott23 September 2013
EESD-13 an international affair
The number of countries represented here is impressive. They include: USA Canada Mexico Colombia Chile Virgin Islands Ghana South Africa Malaysia China Australia ...
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Bill Scott22 September 2013
Going to EESD 13 – still rethinking the engineer
I'm off to EESD 13 this week – just to listen, and to represent ELSA ; the English Learning and Sustainability Alliance. This is the conference blurb: Much progress has been made over the last decade in introducing concepts...
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Bill Scott20 September 2013
Schools meals for all – probably not
Well, we shall see whether the government's new policy of free school meals for all under 7s will deliver its desired outcomes in terms of increased pupil concentration in the afternoon, and greater attainment – well, in the narrow sense...