August 2015

... have written to No. 10 to complain about government policy on the environment.  The NAEE website has the detail. The signatories style themselves: "the leaders of ten leading UK charities concerned with protection of the environment", which made me wonder why...

I've been reading Steven Weinberg's 'Lake Views: this world and the universe'.  It's a lucid collection of essays and other writings.  In the chapter, Without God, Weinberg discusses the 12th century Sufi philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali [1058-1111 CE] who wrote The Incoherence of...

Did you know it was the EYD? I didn't either.  I still didn't, when someone explained that EYD stood for the European Year of Development.  This, it seems, is an EU gambit that's setting out to increase our understanding of the...

Why do meetings to discuss the importance of learning outside the classroom tend to take place indoors?

Last week's THE has this headline: World’s university ‘oligopoly’ accused of blocking OECD bid to judge learning quality ... with a great image of great animals blocking a US highway (that is, the economy and implied progress).  There were no pictures of...

Following my recent news about the re-birth of the English Learning and Sustainability Alliance [ELSA] – which could yet be premature – I've been thinking about the name problem.  Here's my suggestion for removing the confusion between ELSA, the organisation, and Elsa,...

As I noted earlier, the UN 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development took place in July in Addis Ababa.  The UN says it was a success: Countries reach historic agreement to generate financing for new sustainable development agenda. Countries today...

If you are of a particular frame of mind, it is fashionable these days to call for renewable energy subsidies to be cut / phased out / stopped (according to taste).  They are, after all, inflating our tax and electricity...

The Ramblers are encouraging us all, through its big path watch, to adopt a local grid square, walk all the rights of way within it, and report back to them on any problems found, and more generally, on how it...

I've not written about ELSA recently as there has not been anything to say.  For example, its development group has not met for over a year, and it has not made any recent contribution to national debate about sustainability and...