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What’s a badger worth?
This was the question posed on Tuesday at a University of Bath I-SEE seminar by Gordon McGlone, an ecologist who spent his career working with the Wildlife Trusts and now runs a consultancy ‘Thinking Naturally’. Gordon was CEO of Gloucestershire...
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Building the neo-Neolithic
I've written before about English Heritage's interest in having some "authentic" Neolithic – neo-Neolithic, that is – houses at the new Stonehenge visitor centre. Well, here they are, emergent ... The new centre is the building in the background...
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An education in a lunchbox
An English school suspended a 6-year old boy for 4 days recently. What was his crime do you suppose? Was he abusive? Was he violent? Was he a bully? Did he have Class A drugs down his trousers? Pornography up...
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Levelling Somerset
If you live where I do, it's currently hard to avoid local and national media stories about the recurrent flooding of the Somerset Levels, and the hardships of entire villages now marooned in the floods for weeks. The Army was...
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Hefce Redux
After the excitement of Thursday's consultation meeting in London, Hefce will be sifting through all those tweets, emails, comments, questions, videos, and post-it notes – and waiting for the deadline (on Friday) of its formal consultation period about its proposals. I've...
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Hefce off-line
The Hefce consultation meeting is over. As for, my question ... In 2009, Hefce said this: “It remains our view that the greatest contribution that universities and colleges can make to sustainable development is through the values, skills and knowledge...
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Hefce on-line
I have joined Hefce’s London consultation on line, and was impressed by the ease of the technology. Just a click. If it runs out of tax-payer cash, HEFCE could sell this expertise. I joined just in time to see the...
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The continuing development of preferences over what preferences to have
The title of this blog is Amartya Sen's view of rational behaviour. I was reminded of it – and the text at the foot of the post, which Stephen Gough and I wrote in 2007 [1. 4], as I took...
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Circular update from Davos
No. I’m not there! Hardly. I’m not even sure where it is. But the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is – launching another report with McKinsey, and a new initiative: Project Mainstream. I can remember when ESD experts were sniffy about the...
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Another day; another sustainability literacy test
The problem is: whenever some dodgy concept – like sustainability literacy – emerges out of the many febrile imaginations tired of day-time TV, inevitably someone decides it has to be measured. I was alerted to the latest example today by...
