November 2011

  • Philip Neal

    It's with sadness that I note the death of Philip Neal last Tuesday night; November 15th.  Anyone who knows anything about the development of environmental education in the UK will understand the contribution that Philip made over many years, and in...

  • Video contrasts

    I watched two videos yesterday.  The first was the latest communications output from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation; the second a promotional video from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust in anticipation of its 50th year celebrations in 2012.  Regular readers will know...

  • Listening to Architects

    I had the rare privilege on Friday of listening to UK and US architects talking together about school design with sustainability in mind – not that the US folk talk about sustainability or carbon reduction all that much, not when...

  • The Cat in the Mach

    With apologies to Dr Seuss who probably never went to either Machynlleth (Mach) or the Centre for Alternative Technology (the Cat) even when its technology was actually alternative as opposed to pretty mainstream. I enjoyed my visit to the Cat...

  • The Welsh Marches

    It took six and a half hours to reach Machynlleth and the CAT, and part of this journey was through a gloriously autumnal landscape from Y Fenni to beyond Ludlow where Caer Caradoc slipped into the darkness.  This is the...

  • Visiting the CAT

    At long last, I am about to visit the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth – I town I can pronounce (sort of), but not yet spell.  As you know, CAT is ... concerned with the search for globally sustainable,...

  • Don't be nice. Be effective

    This was the rather puzzling sub-heading to the First Biennial Lecture on Sustainability at the University last night, given by Atkins' Director of Sustainability and former CEO, Keith Clarke.  The actual title was: Sustainability and Climate Change. What attracted me,...

  • All those Andy Dobsons

    Looking for Andrew (Andy) Dobson on the web, as I did yesterday in preparation for chairing his I-SEE seminar, illustrates the need to choose your name carefully.  If it's an Andy Dobson you want, then you have plenty of choice....

  • Incentives, nudges, citizenship and right actions

    There was a good turn out for Andy Dobson last night and his talk stimulated wide-ranging comment and questions.  He compared (dis)incentives and nudges with what he has called sustainability citizenship in his recent Green House paper.  The former are...

  • Andy Dobson on Citizenship – and Green Houses

    To Bath today to listen to Keele University's Andy Dobson talk on Environmental Behaviour Change: incentives, 'nudge', and citizenship as part of the I-SEE seminar series.  This will be based on his recent publication Sustainability Citizenship for Green House, the (relatively)...