News and Updates

This is my last post about the Natural Connections event in Plymouth last week. The most telling point came at the end of the day when someone asked: "What about the DfE?” What indeed, I thought.  The response was that the...

This is my third post about the Natural Connections event in Plymouth last week. When the audience was eventually allowed to have a say, here are the "questions" and responses I heard, together with my comments ... A. "Can you separate...

What follows is Steve Martin's recent posting to the SHED-SHARE network: Al Gore poses a crucial question: Is David Cameron really willing and able to lead on climate change? Al Gore is puzzled by David Cameron and the UK political scene,...

It's always good to spend endless time on Last Great Western (which I must now refer to as GWR, it seems; what a travesty!) and pootle slowly down to Plymouth (via Dawlish) to see a real sustainable university in action....

Recently, the late night news programmes on both main TV channels had features about COP21.  These both drew heavily on what Christiana Figueres, the UN climate chief, has been saying. Noting that 155 countries have already put forward detailed plans covering 88% of global CO2...

Drill or Drop is a website publishing "independent, evidence-based" journalism about the onshore oil and gas business in the UK and the campaign against it.  It is named after the “drill or drop” clause in a petroleum exploration and development licence that requires...

Time for some relief from all the angst that usually fills these columns.  Here are the heroes I've come across this week (some rather belatedly): beacons of sense and sanity to us all ... Bertie Pollock, who set fire to his father's...

Why Australia wants Paris to fail - a coal exporting country's perspective on plans to cut global emissions, is the title of next week's I-SEE seminar in Bath by Dr Richard Denniss, the chief economist of the Australia Institute.  This is...

FEE – the Foundation for Environmental Education – is the international group that manages (amongst other things) the Eco-schools franchise, and which therefore, one way or another, determines and/or limits what national Eco-schools teams can do and achieve.  This is what FEE says:...

As catchy titles go, you have to say that this is down there with "M4 closed by accident" which my local newspapers seem to feature every week. The report in question, is on sustainability in UK tertiary education, and it...