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I see, thanks to the NAEE weekly round up, that the government has published the UK’s 3rd Climate Change Risk Assessment.  On the website, the Minister for the School System, Baroness Barran said this: “Building a more sustainable future is...

My friend Andy Stables died this morning of prostate cancer.  Over many years, I knew him as a research student, a colleague, a research collaborator, a clear-minded author, and as my Head of Department at Bath.  Of late, both kind...

I remembering walking on unimproved land along the English-side of the Solway; it would have been in the mid-1950s.  There was a rasping sound and the family friend with us said: "Listen to that; you might never hear it again"....

Our local great spotted woodpeckers are back visiting the garden after their autumn sabbatical, having successfully raised at least one brood last year.  Seeing a bird hanging off the fat ball cage the other day prompted the usual question: is...

Amid all the euphoria in Glasgow during COPO26, I tried to listen to a few alternative voices.  Why?  Partly because they exist, and partly because of a number of misgivings I have about the social and economic costs of the...

As I noted the other day, the ASE is reprinting a 2010 article of mine in the 2022 edition of ASE International.  A core part of that paper was a section on The aims of environmental science education.  Here it is:...

It was a nice Christmas present to get a note from the ASE to say that they'd like to re-print an article I'd written for them.  It'll appear in the new year 2022 edition of ASE International. What took me...

Thanks to the latest NAEE weekly round up for alerting me to what's occurring in Wales.  I was fleetingly  in the Principality recently but failed to spot this. The Curriculum for Wales initiative is in full swing and you can see...

Imagine a conversation somewhere east of the Vistula ... Sergey More good energy news Mr President.  Useful idiots in Scotland have persuaded the First Minister to oppose the development of Cambo – an oil and gas field.  This means we...

This post is written by Dr Paul Vare of the University of Gloucestershire.  Paul was one of those invited by the DfE to be a member of the climate education working group which met on December 9th.  These are his...