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A good day at the Hampshire Collegiate School on Friday, opening their splendid new learning outside the classroom facilities.  What a wonderful setting for the addition of a building that is not only nicely designed and constructed (by their own...

I watched two videos yesterday.  The first was the latest communications output from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation; the second a promotional video from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust in anticipation of its 50th year celebrations in 2012.  Regular readers will know...

I had the rare privilege on Friday of listening to UK and US architects talking together about school design with sustainability in mind – not that the US folk talk about sustainability or carbon reduction all that much, not when...

With apologies to Dr Seuss who probably never went to either Machynlleth (Mach) or the Centre for Alternative Technology (the Cat) even when its technology was actually alternative as opposed to pretty mainstream. I enjoyed my visit to the Cat...

It took six and a half hours to reach Machynlleth and the CAT, and part of this journey was through a gloriously autumnal landscape from Y Fenni to beyond Ludlow where Caer Caradoc slipped into the darkness.  This is the...

Looking for Andrew (Andy) Dobson on the web, as I did yesterday in preparation for chairing his I-SEE seminar, illustrates the need to choose your name carefully.  If it's an Andy Dobson you want, then you have plenty of choice....

There was a good turn out for Andy Dobson last night and his talk stimulated wide-ranging comment and questions.  He compared (dis)incentives and nudges with what he has called sustainability citizenship in his recent Green House paper.  The former are...

I have been trying to follow the rather arcane discussion around the new reading test for 6 year olds.  This is from the BBC: The government's new reading test for six-year-olds is a waste of money that will not identify...

This time, from the Higher Education Academy, consulting across the sector on its strategic direction for the next five years.  After some persistent nudging from SHED-SHARE and others, I gave it a go.  I thought the questions sensible and apt....

I have just watched the latest, rather breathless, RSAnimate by Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain.  Some myths debunked, and some ironies exposed.  Not sure which bits of my brain I was using, but I shall have to watch it...