May 2016
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World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the SDGs
The World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be held in Manchester from the 5th to 7th of April, 2017. It is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and the...
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How the west was lost – and why we need it back
There are some journalists whose work I always try to read, and Timothy Garton Ash is one of them. I find his civilised, liberal, historically-grounded analysis of contemporary issues valuable in my own sense-making. He wrote at the end of last...
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Princeton academic publishes his alternative CV
The Guardian reports that Johannes Haushofer, who is assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, has published an alternative CV of his career failures up to now. Publishing an anti-cv like this might, of course, just result in his adding...
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Derby Day – overcrowding is now the norm
The 2016 Nature Connections conference in Derby in June has the theme of Getting Connected to Nature. Whilst I quite fancy going because of the theme and topics to be discussed, looking at how stuffed full of brief inputs the programme is, suggests that I'd only get...
