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Harmony with nature: all vanity and hubris
Harmony with Nature generates about 22 million Google results. Harmony in Nature, on the other hand gets around 125 million. Make of that what you can. Each phrase is problematic: the first is wishful thinking dressed as political theory; the second...
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It's university league table time again
I see that the University is now 3rd in the Sunday Times League table (up from 5th). My very limited straw poll yesterday suggests a degree of incredulity as to how this is possible, and puzzlement as to what it...
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Tough on atriums; tough on the causes of atriums
... that is to say, architects. According to the Guardian, dirigists in the DfE have clamped down on bendy walls, novel materials, open spaces, glass-substitutes, internal partitions, and glazed walls in the new design templates for their new, cheaper, Building Schools...
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Sustainable parenting: means and ends
I came across this the other day in a draft NGO report: "Parenting is never easy and views change on the best approach. Our sustainable parenting programme might have raised eyebrows 50 years ago but today it fulfils a clear...
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The miller's tale – I998
As referenced earlier, 14 years ago, and again the other day, I had a conversation with a miller in the small caucasus mountains in Georgia that was more than merely thought-provoking. I wrote it up as part of my field...
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Foundational pop-up resources
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has released a set of school-focused resources based around circular economy ideas. Their web pages say: Enriching the curriculum and enhancing young people’s skills and critical and creative thinking will be key to their future prospects...
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Another day; another journal
So, welcome to the International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education (IJECEE) which is to be published by NAAEE which, I am told, is bearing all publication costs (except reviewing). Its blurb say it will publish scholarly written work, anonymously and...
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Tbilisi redux
Thinking again of T+35, and that video nasty, I recalled my only trip to Tbilisi. I went for a week in 1998 as part of the evaluation of WWF's global environmental education programme which John Fien directed. Indelible memories still...
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Badgers, cattle and the rural economy
This autumn, trials will go ahead in the South West of England to test the suitability of controlled shooting as a method of culling badgers in an effort to combat the problem of bovine TB (bTB) in England, to test...
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Tbilisi on You Tube
I'm grateful, I think, to Alan Reid for the link to a gritty and grainy film of the first (that is, real) Tbilisi conference in 1977. Shot in black, white, and 50+ shades of grey, this is a Soviet propaganda...