New Publications

I've been reading The Conservation article by Lorraine Whitmarsh University of Bath, Caroline Verfuerth Cardiff University and Steve Westlake Cardiff University: Net zero: direct costs of climate policies aren’t a major barrier to public support, research reveals. It begins in this way:...

Nature in the Balance ?  Balance of Nature?  Balance in Nature?   Balance in teaching about Nature? Writing in a recent Times, Jenni Russel said this: "Nature is in crisis. Soils are being depleted faster than they can regenerate, wildlife populations...

If you've seen NAEE's most recent weekly news round up, you'll have read about a synthesis report published by the Royal Meteorological Society [RMetS]. It  confirms what we all knew: that there are many opportunities for climate change education within the...

I've bought a "vegan nail brush" from a "leading British lifestyle brand" made with "pure cactus bristle" – Agave sisalana – from Mexico with a FSC birch base.  The alternative was plastic so I took the plunge.  It's very nice.  But, given...

In Hothouse Earth (Icon Books 2022: 160) Bill McGuire writes: “The truth is, playing down the potential worst effects of global heating and climate breakdown is far worse than raising the alarm and amounts to what I like to call climate appeasement....

I've been reading Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time, written byDavid Dixon, and published by Crown House Publishing, 2022: 250pp, paperback, £18.99, ISBN 978-1-78135-401-8.  The comments which follow will appear as a review in the Spring 2023...

I noticed last year just how many 'Christmas' greetings messages from NGOs failed even to mention Christmas.  "Season's greetings", "Festive greetings", "Happy holidays", "Merry yuletide", etc were common themes.  I even had a "Happy winter" email.  It said: "Dear ... Colleague, 2022...

The fate of the natural history GCSE is now in the hands of the DfE and OfQual.  Fate as in quality rather than any question of whether it will exist because that battle has been won in the gritted teeth...

There's a new team at the DfE.  After all the recent resignations new ministers are in place, although one who resigned seems to be back, and the one who never resigned is still there.  Three are new, including the Secretary...

An article in the Economist's Bartelby column this week served to inform and amuse.  But should it have done? It begins: "Few things are more depressing than estimates of how much time people spend on a specific activity over the course of...