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Happy New Year.  I've made my new year resolutions.  It wasn't difficult as most are quite similar to last years.  One new one is to take less note of London-centric chatter.  Another is to continue to diversity my news sources....

Resurrection Trust is a book of “funny, dark, mad, bad, upbeat, downbeat and fantastical short stories about living sustainably”. They arose from the University of Southampton's Green Stories writing competition.   The editor, Amanda Saint, says that the stories “showcase a...

I’ve been reading The impact of residential experiences on pupil progress and attainment in year six (10 – 11 year olds) in England.   This is a report on behalf of the Learning Away Consortium by Jane Dudman, Carrie Hodges and...

Hunter S Thompson wrote one of the great American novels: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  I thought it was funny from the first sentence. He also wrote Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail ’72 (covering the Democratic Party presidential...

I spend time exploring this question in my talk in Birmingham last week.  It is, after all, the question that young people are asking and demanding action on.  More broadly, the question might sensibly be: What should everyone be learning about...

I gave a talk last Saturday to at the University of Birmingham Education Department's postgraduate research conference which had a climate and sustainability theme.  I traced the attempts to have schools take environmental issues seriously in what they taught students,...

Did you watch the so-called debate on Channel 4 last Thursday or were you doing something you felt more worthwhile: reading a good book, for example, or doing DIY? If you did, were you impressed by the Dutch auction of...

I've been reading Donna Haraway's Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.  This was published in 2015 in Environmental Humanities, vol. 6,  pp. 159-165 This is how it begins: "There is no question that anthropogenic processes have had planetary effects, in...

As you'll be aware, the UN left Greta Thunberg stranded in Los Angeles and in a bit of a pickle as she noted in a recent tweet: "As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some...

I see the Labour Party manifesto (required reading) has backed away from a proposal to ban independent schools, confiscate all their assets, and share their expertise round the system.  The manifesto does say that a Social Justice Commission  would "advise ministers...