News and Updates

  • They do it differently; they do it better; …

    … and they’re doing it now.  Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability implementation group is up and running; its membership and terms of reference are here Learning for Sustainability – the report of the One Planet Schools working group was published in...

  • The blog's on enforced vacation ...

    … and Bath's digital team promise it will be even better when they've finished the upgrade.  I hope that applies to the content as well.

  • When Quality meets the common (wo)man

    Two great stories this week about Quality meeting representatives of the common (wo)man. One such was the Federation of Cumbria Commoners which was holding its AGM at Newton Rigg agricultural college near Penrith, where they encountered environmentalist George Monbiot (Stowe, Brasenose...

  • Confusion in the BBC about balance

    The issue of the BBC and its search for balance on coverage of climate change was explored recently in the Guardian, with this owing at least some debt to skepticalscience.  It seems to me that the BBC’s problem lies in its...

  • School censors science exam papers to remove offensive questions on evolution

    A video report on the BBC, reports extraordinary goings-on in North London, where the tax-payer funded Yesodey Hatorah Girls' School has been removing questions on evolution from GCSE science papers before their students could answer them. The examination board in question,...

  • A 20 20 20 Vision for Solar PV

    I've written before about our own domestic solar pv generation (most recently here), which is now some 33 months into its life.  To put our modest production (an average of around 11 units / day) into perspective, the UK's installed...

  • Well done Jamie Agombar – Inspiring Leader

    I'm writing this on the last train from London (last night).  Just been to the Guardian University Awards evening (celebrating excellence, creativity and innovation). Jamie Agombar, the NUS's ethical and environmental manager (and all round sustainability champion), was nominated in...

  • A cool look at global warming

    Reserve your seats now.  The Lord Lawson of Blaby is coming to Bath to bad mouth the idea of climate change.  Here is his "cool" Abstract: The long-known scientific fact that there is a greenhouse effect and that carbon dioxide...

  • English Heritage unearths neolithic health and safety manual

    When English Heritage was drawing up plans for its new Stonehenge visitor centre, authenticity was a key value.  It was fortunate, then, that an exhaustive search of the archives from its digs at Durrington Walls revealed Neolithic stone carvings which...

  • Update from chesil beach

    From The Guardian, March 1st 2008 James Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and epidemics.  Britain...