February 2022

There have been a number of campaigns of late to persuade investment funds to disinvest from oil, gas and coal industries.  The motivation, as I understand it, was to reduce the flow capital to these industries and hence to speed...

The EE Maillist had news the other day that the World List of Sustainability Researchers and the World Ranking of Sustainability Researchers are being updated for 2022.  We're invited to put ourselves forward for inclusion.  The deadline is 25th February...

These are the points made about curriculum in the National Education Union's response to the DfE's draft strategy which says: Within schools, the science, geography and citizenship programmes in the National Curriculum at both primary (KS1-2) and secondary (KS3-4) cover...

What is a climatarian diet, and can it save the world? – Pebble magazine (essential reading) has been looking into this idea.  In a nutshell, it says (no pun surely intended) the diet involves eating with the planet in mind....

This post is an appreciation of Andy Stables the researcher and the man.  It is written by Dr Alin Olteanu, a member of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research at RWTH Aachen University.  Alin gave this as an oration at Andy's...

I am just returned from Andy Stables' funeral in the parish church in Bulkington in Wiltshire.  It was a fitting tribute to a great man.  There is more to be said, but for now, the following extract from Wordsworth's Lines...

We are always getting reminders of how much our screen time has gone up or down.  I don't over-worry as I'm making up for all those years when the only screen was a box in the corner whose vertical hold...

In the middle of its consultation about its Sustainability and Climate Change draft strategy, the DfE has decided to run a survey.  This asks us which actions set out in the strategy are the most important to us, and seeks our our opinions...