July 2023

I miss Andy Stables' wit, wisdom and insightfulness, and I thought of him last month as grandoffspring and I went pond dipping in the Cotswold Water Park.  In particular, I thought of this paper: Stables, A 2001, 'Who drew the...

Walking above Warminster on the edge of the military land that stretches away to Imber, a flash of mauve caught my eye. We were heading from the Battlesbury Hill fort to Scratchbury and maybe on to Heytesbury, walking on the...

If you are an 'Unthinking Green' you're likely to subscribe to the notion that sustainability brings universal benefits; if you're a little less credulous, you'll be wont to acknowledge that there might be a few – a very few perhaps...

An anonymous 'rock artist', known it seems as The Borrowdale Banksy, has created a new slate structure in the Lake District.  The Times noted that previous sculptures have been knocked down by what it terms "vandals". Hardly a Banksy, I'd...

Something happened the other week which makes me think I may have come of age.  EER received a paper with a made-up citation which claimed that Annette Gough and I had published this: Gough, A., & Scott, W. (2017). Reviewing...

Nature in the Balance ?  Balance of Nature?  Balance in Nature?   Balance in teaching about Nature? Writing in a recent Times, Jenni Russel said this: "Nature is in crisis. Soils are being depleted faster than they can regenerate, wildlife populations...

"I hate tree huggers.* This isn't what I think; I've hugged quite a few trees in my time and will do so again.  No.  It's reported to come from the leader of the Labour Party. The Sunday Times reports that...

You can't have missed the publicity around the launch of the FED's National Education Consultation Report 2023 - Towards a long-term plan for education at the House of Lords last week.  As the FED itself modestly noted: "What a significant week...

I see that the Government has launched a £25m Species Survival Fund to boost restoration of natural habitats.  It says that this will help to drive action to reduce habitat loss and safeguard the UK’s fragile ecosystems and create nature-rich landscapes.  This comes c/o the Heritage...

Following my posts about the inadequacy of the Royal Meteorological Society's definition of climate literacy, I received the following comment: "My big problem with all this is that climate education is being deliberately narrowed, and climate change is being framed...