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  • Waiting to be mobilised

    The Guardian reports that groups including the RSPB, National Trust and the RSPCA have written to the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, who has signalled his willingness to back away from green policies should the Conservatives stand to benefit from it...

  • Remembering Walter Marshall

    Walter Marshall was sometime Chair of the CEGB – the Central Electricity Generating Board – which was an organisation which did simply what its name implied.  Not only that, it was clearly seen being responsible for keeping the UK's lights...

  • An Andy Stables Sort of Sky

    I miss Andy Stables' wit, wisdom and insightfulness, and I thought of him last month as grandoffspring and I went pond dipping in the Cotswold Water Park.  In particular, I thought of this paper: Stables, A 2001, 'Who drew the...

  • Lacy Phalecia

    Walking above Warminster on the edge of the military land that stretches away to Imber, a flash of mauve caught my eye. We were heading from the Battlesbury Hill fort to Scratchbury and maybe on to Heytesbury, walking on the...

  • The Poor and Net Zero

    If you are an 'Unthinking Green' you're likely to subscribe to the notion that sustainability brings universal benefits; if you're a little less credulous, you'll be wont to acknowledge that there might be a few – a very few perhaps...

  • Vandalism or Public Spirit

    An anonymous 'rock artist', known it seems as The Borrowdale Banksy, has created a new slate structure in the Lake District.  The Times noted that previous sculptures have been knocked down by what it terms "vandals". Hardly a Banksy, I'd...

  • Quoting Mae West again

    Something happened the other week which makes me think I may have come of age.  EER received a paper with a made-up citation which claimed that Annette Gough and I had published this: Gough, A., & Scott, W. (2017). Reviewing...

  • The balance of nature in crisis

    Nature in the Balance ?  Balance of Nature?  Balance in Nature?   Balance in teaching about Nature? Writing in a recent Times, Jenni Russel said this: "Nature is in crisis. Soils are being depleted faster than they can regenerate, wildlife populations...

  • Sense and Sustainability?

    "I hate tree huggers.* This isn't what I think; I've hugged quite a few trees in my time and will do so again.  No.  It's reported to come from the leader of the Labour Party. The Sunday Times reports that...

  • Who's afraid of the FED?

    You can't have missed the publicity around the launch of the FED's National Education Consultation Report 2023 - Towards a long-term plan for education at the House of Lords last week.  As the FED itself modestly noted: "What a significant week...