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The BBC is about to dispense with the services of the Met Office for its weather forecasting.  This high profile divorce has money, maths and technology at its heart.  The BBC says that the Met couldn't come up with a...

The USA's National Wildlife Federation encourages outdoor learning in school gardens and habitat areas and is active in 8,400 schools. As such, it is interested in the academic and broader learning effects of school garden programs, and has recently tried to summarise what the...

There was a piece in the G last week about a recent article in the T which had gone out of its way to praise England's tax-funded schools in the great pre-university [A-level] qualifications race, comparing them favourably with 'independent' schools – that is,...

This is from The Spectator on August 21st, 1915: "War is a time in which a shortage of labourers can least be borne with.  The land must not go untilled, the seed must not remain unsown, or the crops unharvested....

This is the title of a new paper by Kerry Shephard and Pete Dulgar in Applied Environmental Education & Communication [2015, 14:3, 137-148, DOI: 10.1080/1533015X.2015.1067577] You can access it here. For those who cannot, a limited number of copies are also...

A recent Free Exchange column in the Economist was a feature on helping the world's most poor people to help themselves.  It begins: "THE poor do not just lack money. They are also often short of basic know-how, the support of...

For all those who've still got withdrawal symptoms from WEEC 15, along comes WSSD-U-2016.  I know it sounds like a WW2 submarine, but it's another conference (as if the poor Earth hadn't had enough already).  So, if you're anywhere Boston next September,...

... have written to No. 10 to complain about government policy on the environment.  The NAEE website has the detail. The signatories style themselves: "the leaders of ten leading UK charities concerned with protection of the environment", which made me wonder why...

I've been reading Steven Weinberg's 'Lake Views: this world and the universe'.  It's a lucid collection of essays and other writings.  In the chapter, Without God, Weinberg discusses the 12th century Sufi philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali [1058-1111 CE] who wrote The Incoherence of...

Did you know it was the EYD? I didn't either.  I still didn't, when someone explained that EYD stood for the European Year of Development.  This, it seems, is an EU gambit that's setting out to increase our understanding of the...