Now that Hetan Shah has moved on (and up) to the Royal Statistical Society – and I do wonder what odds you could have got against that a year ago – Think Global has acquired a new CEO: Tom Franklin who has...

The Co-op has been researching children's and parents' views on environmental issues and concludes that "pupils want lessons on green issues".  This is good news for them as it fits nicely with their Green Schools Revolution programme. The Press Association...

If you'd like to experience a hapless simulation, waste your time, and be frustrated into the bargain, you need look no further than the Met Office's new game, advising Brad the ice cream man on the weather.   As the...

This is the fate of the LSE's Satoshi Kanazawa, reader in the university's department of management, who has been barred from publishing "in non-peer-reviewed outlets", as the LSE puts it.  Wow.  For the lurid details of his malfeasance, see the...

UnTidy Britain is looking for additional judges for its Eco-schools top award – the green flag – because of the expansion of the scheme.   Its website says: Judges ensure that the standards the Award sets are high, but fair....

Even if you're not particularly interested in journalistic ethics (even if you know you should be), if you're a jobbing academic who does a bit of interviewing, the recent Bagehot column in the Economist is well worth a read (as are...

A thoughtful piece in today's Telegraph from the RSPB's acting head of sustainable development, Simon Marsh, who was one of 4 individuals asked by government to create a draft of the new proposed planning bill.  His insights into that process,...

To Bradford for an Ellen MacArthur Foundation session at the British Science Festival.  One refreshing thing about the EMF is its steadfast refusal to use words and concepts like eco / sustainable / green – largely on the grounds that...

I have been reading Environmental Education: principles and practice, published by Edward Arnold in 1978, and edited by Sean McBirney Carson.  Odd, you might think, given its venerable 33 years ageing on my bookshelves, but I delved into it for...

Yesterday found me reading about the Hadow report after a goodly few years.  I remember it was an important part of my teacher training in the heady early 1970s, and then had a prominent mention in the PGCE programme I...