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In almost perfect harmony
That's now the Economist titled its recent Erasmus blog on Islam and Ecology. It ends: "... the very nature of environmental challenges gives a certain integrity to eco-religious discussions. Rising sea levels, melting glaciers and expanding deserts will affect everybody, regardless...
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EU climate (change) chef calls for legally binding COP21 deal
The €ureaucrat responsible for climate change within the EU, Miguel Arias Canete [ surely, it cannot all be his fault ], says that the forthcoming (or so optimists think) United Nations’ climate deal (which is supposed to be a triomphe pour President Hollande) should be...
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More on the BBC, the Met, and August rain
No, not the police, but the Office, which I wrote about last week. Here are a couple of other perspectives: from Christopher Booker, and from The Conversation, which a colleague in New Zealand alerted me to. Oddly, I did not...
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Pandanomics and Pandamonium
This video about the birth of giant panda twins in Washington is X-rated stuff, and almost beyond satire. Surely any species that needs sperm donors, artificial insemination, and multiple midwives is beyond saving.
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Wind and Air and Earth and Rain
The BBC is about to dispense with the services of the Met Office for its weather forecasting. This high profile divorce has money, maths and technology at its heart. The BBC says that the Met couldn't come up with a...
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Outdoor learning in [school] gardens
The USA's National Wildlife Federation encourages outdoor learning in school gardens and habitat areas and is active in 8,400 schools. As such, it is interested in the academic and broader learning effects of school garden programs, and has recently tried to summarise what the...
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A storm in a G and T
There was a piece in the G last week about a recent article in the T which had gone out of its way to praise England's tax-funded schools in the great pre-university [A-level] qualifications race, comparing them favourably with 'independent' schools – that is,...
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Outdoor Learning in 1915
This is from The Spectator on August 21st, 1915: "War is a time in which a shortage of labourers can least be borne with. The land must not go untilled, the seed must not remain unsown, or the crops unharvested....
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Why it matters how we frame “education” in ESD
This is the title of a new paper by Kerry Shephard and Pete Dulgar in Applied Environmental Education & Communication [2015, 14:3, 137-148, DOI: 10.1080/1533015X.2015.1067577] You can access it here. For those who cannot, a limited number of copies are also...
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Graduating from Destitution
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...
