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A recent Free Exchange column in the Economist was a feature on helping the world's most poor people to help themselves.  It begins: "THE poor do not just lack money. They are also often short of basic know-how, the support of...

For all those who've still got withdrawal symptoms from WEEC 15, along comes WSSD-U-2016.  I know it sounds like a WW2 submarine, but it's another conference (as if the poor Earth hadn't had enough already).  So, if you're anywhere Boston next September,...

A (kind) colleague in the US sent this to me wondering about the state of our education system.  As a mix of credulity and ignorance, it is almost beyond comment.

... have written to No. 10 to complain about government policy on the environment.  The NAEE website has the detail. The signatories style themselves: "the leaders of ten leading UK charities concerned with protection of the environment", which made me wonder why...

Did you know it was the EYD? I didn't either.  I still didn't, when someone explained that EYD stood for the European Year of Development.  This, it seems, is an EU gambit that's setting out to increase our understanding of the...

Last week's THE has this headline: World’s university ‘oligopoly’ accused of blocking OECD bid to judge learning quality ... with a great image of great animals blocking a US highway (that is, the economy and implied progress).  There were no pictures of...

As I noted earlier, the UN 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development took place in July in Addis Ababa.  The UN says it was a success: Countries reach historic agreement to generate financing for new sustainable development agenda. Countries today...

If you are of a particular frame of mind, it is fashionable these days to call for renewable energy subsidies to be cut / phased out / stopped (according to taste).  They are, after all, inflating our tax and electricity...

The Ramblers are encouraging us all, through its big path watch, to adopt a local grid square, walk all the rights of way within it, and report back to them on any problems found, and more generally, on how it...

I've not written about ELSA recently as there has not been anything to say.  For example, its development group has not met for over a year, and it has not made any recent contribution to national debate about sustainability and...