News and Updates

Yesterday, I wrote about some of the positives of renewable energy, including the large strides that China is making.  The latest Economist adds some perspective to those figures with a story of dubious financial activity in Beijing and Hong Kong, leading...

Here are a few factoids: Rooftop solar is growing worldwide by 50% per year. In 1985 solar cost $12 per watt, but today’s prices are closer to 36 cents per watt. Every five hours the world adds 23 MW of...

The RSPB says that Cetti's warbler is a small nondescript bird which skulks around, keeping out of sight.  This may be a sound survival strategy.  It has bred here since 1973.  Gary Mantle mentioned it in one of his recent blog posts.  It has...

Have you come across Guy McPherson?  He's an academic interested in climate science / change.  I only know about him because Dave Moreman mentioned him in his encounter with "Ask Gareth" the other day. If you decide you'd like to...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...