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Bond 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...

If there are half-truths, as there are, there must be half-lies as well.  So when is a lie not a lie?  When is it, for example, merely an untruth?  The Economist's Johnson column [ A taxonomy of dishonesty ] looked...

I've written about Charles Foster before – and shall do so again when I've slowly come to the end of his magisterial Being a Beast.  However, at the rate I'm going, I may never finish it as it's one of those books...

I'm told that Green Light South-west will be holding an ESD Teachmeet next month.  I've never been to one of those (sheltered life, etc), and so I'm going along on March 2nd.  I do wonder, though, whether I'll (or anyone else) will...

Now that the Trump administration has banned Wolves from entering the USA because of their plans to lay waste to native American sheep, there has been a flurry of protest on social media from #wolfactive, #letsre-wildthewolf, #wolvesagogo, #friendsofthewolf, #wolvesRus, #lawyers4wolves, etc,...

Thanks to the NAEE blog for alerting me to a piece by Rob Bushby in The Scotsman. Bushy is the awards manager for the John Muir Trust and he was writing about whether children are really as disconnected from nature as we're...

This was the slogan of an event in London on Sunday which I missed.  It was billed as a national summit and had the title: TRUMP BREXIT & BEYOND It was organised by NUS, SOAS student union and LIBER8 Education....

The Global Conference on Education and Research (GLOCER) has been quick off the mark announcing that its May 22-25 event at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee is inviting researchers to submit abstracts for white papers, research papers, roundtable discussions, symposium...

The Economist is hosting a sustainability summit on March 23rd / 24th.  Details here.  Its blurb says: Over the past two centuries, global economic development has often come at the expense of our environment.  Ice caps have melted, forests have been flattened,...

I am reading (slowly) Charles Foster's Being a Beast published by Profile Books 2016, ISBN 978-1781255346 It's a book where the being (as opposed to being with has to be taken seriously.  I suppose a more apt title might have been Trying to be a...