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I wrote recently about Mark Lynas's Damascene conversion to GM.  Here he is again, testing out his position against the views of an eminent US scientist, Nina Fedoroff.  Oh that we all did the equivalent of that! And here, for...

I had a pretty standard cup of Starbucks coffee the other day; unwontedly, I should say.   I was on a train and only saw the logo when the drink was on my little table.  I drank it anyway, my liquid...

Alongside the (rather positive) notion that children in schools (up to 14) should have an entitlement to classes wherein they are helped to learn to cook "healthy and wholesome" (but only "savoury") meals, there is, I am told, the completely...

I’ve been reading my way through the material produced by the QAA and a clutch of universities in the online Guide to Quality and Education for Sustainability in HE. I began with the various video talking heads, and I was...

The draft national curriculum proposals for design technology has this to say in relation to food (growing / cooking / eating): In Key Stages 1 to 3 pupils should be taught progressively more demanding practical knowledge, skills and crafts, working...

The DfE announced last week that computer science has been added to the list of science subjects that count towards the EBacc.  This has been widely welcomed, albeit with some extravagant hype about Alan Turing's legacy.  Here's a flavour ......

This was the title of Stephen Gough's Inaugural Lecture last Thursday in Bath.  He concluded, after an erudite tour d'horizon that it wasn't.  There was, of course, much play around nature / natural, and I noted, I think for the...

... and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. [Note 1] Although this looks like a variation on the old IQ test training game of putting disparate phrases into one sentence, if you go to the Guardian Sustainable Business hub, you'll find an article,...

It was a pleasure to read Robin Alexander's incisive critique of Mr Gove's attempts at curriculum reform: pleasing, but oh so disappointing that such a riposte should prove necessary.  Here's the Abstract to Alexander's Forum paper for a flavour of...

A recent Economist ran a piece on Hurricane Sandy, and the costs to come from it.  It was typically thoughtful (if you like the Economist's thinking on economics and society, as I tend to do.  If you don't, it will...