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I see that the government now has a dedicated webpage to the SDGs.  This says: 'The UK is committed to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. The most effective way to do this is by ensuring that the Goals...

I’ve just read Revolution by Peter Ackroyd, which is a very engaging history of the 18th century.  Here's something to whet your appetite: "The Leicester Sisterhood of Female Handspinners was established by 18,500 women in 1788". In the book, Ackroyd says...

Today's post: Taking the Long View: a 25 year environment plan for the UK? is by the regular guest contributor, Steve Martin. Theresa May and Michael Gove took time out last week,  to visit the Wetlands Centre , in London to...

I wrote about the 25 Year Environment Plan – aka the 25 YEP – the other day, wondering whether there was within it – buried or otherwise – a 25 year environmental education plan, which I see is already being referred...

The government has a 25 year plan to do something or other about nature – or was that the environment?  Distressingly, they describe this as the 25 YEP. Mrs M (our Mrs M, of course), speaking at its launch, said...

The government has published its 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment.  Is it, I wondered, too much to hope that this is also a 25 year plan for environmental education?  As a start to thinking about this question, here's a...

I see that one of my papers (with Andrew Stables): The Quest for Holism in Education for Sustainable Development is being included in: Environmental and Sustainability Education Policy: International Trends, Priorities and Challenges, edited by Katrien Van Poeck, Jonas A. Lysgaard, and Alan...

The Christmas edition of The Economist had a long feature – A tiger's tale  – on the plight of the tiger in India today.  It focused on a 5-year old male – known as T3 to its minders – that,...

I was surprised at the positive tone of the Economist's December 14th article: New life for the Paris climate deal – A flurry of meetings should help curb greenhouse-gas emissions. But the global agreement is still essential.   I felt like that because...

This is a first for me: I have been suspected as a bot by WordPress as I tried to post a response on my friend Richard Jurin's new blog. Richard's first post was: As my first blog post, I will...