Bill Scott
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                                    Bill Scott8 March 2017Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-beingOECD had a workshop in Paris the other week on Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-being. Here's the webpage. The workshop "discussed the foundations to measuring business impacts on well-being through the creation of new measurement standards in close collaboration with the... 
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                                    Bill Scott7 March 2017Blencathra on the BBCI watched a BBC film about Blencathra (a year in the life of) the other week. In my younger life, I spent considerable time on that mountain and the film did justice to its fine sculpture: think blooming heather, time-lapse scudding... 
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                                    Bill Scott6 March 2017Meeting teachers at the TeachMeetI was rather uncharitable (quite uncharacteristically, so, I thought) about the Bristol TeachMeet last Thursday evening. I'm happy to report that some 9 teachers did turn up. I'm less happy to note that hardly any of them had heard of... 
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                                    Bill Scott3 March 2017From Atoms to Devices: materials design for new energy technologiesThe I-SEE seminar on Tuesday 7 March is: From atoms to devices: materials design for new energy technologies and is given by Aron Walsh, Professor of Materials Design in the Department of Materials at Imperial. Here's the Abstract The discovery of functional... 
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                                    Bill Scott2 March 2017But will there be any teachers?I'm off to SWLfSC's Teachmeet today. I wrote about this 10 days ago and wondered whether I'd be talked at for the whole 2 hours It turns out that there are even more presentations than I thought: Big Picture stuff ESD... 
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                                    Bill Scott1 March 2017WEEC by WEECWEEC 2017 has posted a list of three of its plenary speakers, and (whisper it those who dare) two of them might actually be worth listening to. The three are: Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in... 
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                                    Bill Scott28 February 2017Sobering thoughts about renewable electricityI have a stake, as you know, in a renewable energy future. As one of the co-owners of Semington A which contributes in a modest way to the grid's attempts to keep the lights on, I keep an eye on prices... 
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                                    Bill Scott27 February 2017Fox news – Fake newsDeep in the night, a conversation about the bad press that foxes tend to get about what is claimed to be their habit of killing for the hell of it – think corpse-strewn hen houses across the land, bereft small-holders, curtailed egg... 
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                                    Bill Scott24 February 2017Thinking about TbilisiI've just written an article for NAEE's latest journal which will shortly appear – Vol 114. It looks back to 1979 and the impact of the Tbilisi declaration on environmental education in England. Here it is: 40 Years on from... 
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                                    Bill Scott23 February 2017The name's Bond, SDG BondBond says it is the "civil society network for global change [that] brings people together to make the international development sector more effective". Bond hosts the Bond SDGs Group, which it says brings together 150 organisations in the UK who focus...