January 2010
-
What must a conscientious teacher of climate change do?
I ask this because I've a session coming up on our PGCE course with climate change as its focus. One answer, of course, is to keep an eye on what the IPCC is itself saying – as opposed, perhaps, to...
-
A great dilemma as Australian fireworks lead the way
The Sydney New Year Celebrations were as colourful (and over-the-top fabulous) as ever this (ie, last) year, and their bridge always seems to outdo our wheel as a framing for activity. If you missed them, you can have a look...
-
If pester power is good enough for McDonald's, then it's ...
I overheard a conversation a while back about the use of young people to persuade their parents through targeted pester power to change their bad social-living habits. It struck me as odd to invoke McDonald's values to justify this rather...
-
All together now children, let's frighten everybody...
Here's the opening video for the Copenhagen summit. Comment seems superfluous.