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In memory of murdered bloggers everywhere
Avijit Roy, the blogger, knew he had to write; But al-Qaida's thugs (who killed him) knew might was right. ………..................... After Pale Ebenezer ...
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Postcard from NAAEE's Research Symposium
It is some while since I have been at NAAEE's research symposium, but coming back is like visiting old family friends, with so many familiar faces – and ideas. I was touched by the warm 'welcome-back' reception that I received. What...
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GEEP 7 – last words and Donald Trump
We met for the last time yesterday morning to think about where & what next. The aim was to take some of the residual fuzziness out of the GEEP concept, and to allow development to continue. Someone had the idea that GEEP should...
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GEEP – 6 – Tag Lines
It's Thursday morning in San Diego. The sun has risen over Downtown, and another warm day looms. Just the sort of day to spend in air conditioned frigidity indoors – whilst all the time saying how important it is to...
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GEEP – 5 – what's it all about?
The first GEEP day ended with delegates still searching for some illusive final clarity about goals, objectives and strategies. It's still not clear whether GEEP does things, or (just) enables others to do things. Rather inevitably, with so many people from...
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GEEP – 4 – and so it begins
I'm about to go down for a GEEP (pronounced Jeep it seems) working breakfast, which – at 0830 – is far too late for me, as I saw the sun rise over the Downtown skyline quite a while back. People...
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Postcard to COP21
The following text is doing the rounds of those interested in ESD, etc, etc, to ask them to get on board to put pressure on governments attending the COP21. Basically, it's saying, in a very long-winded way, that higher education...
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COP-out 21
The UN has published a much reduced draft document for the COP21 meeting in Paris. It is now reduced (from ~90) to 20 pages, plus 3 supplementary ones on ways to increase countries’ emissions-cutting targets before 2020. The text would commits governments...
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GEEP – 3 – a country needs survey
As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation. The first I published yesterday. This is the second of them: a country needs survey....
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GEEP – 2 – an overview of issues facing the UK
As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation. This is the first of them: an overview of environmental education [EE] issues in...
