New Publications
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The lifecycle of a supermarket bag policy
I wrote recently about the dismal failure of the much-vaunted plastic bag policy that the government forced on supermarkets, noting research which showed that people were using so-called bags for life in much the same way as the thinner alternatives...
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A LOVE SONG TO THE EARTH: The McCartney’s in Chorus
This is a new year guest post from Stephen Martin. It was sent as a letter to the People's Guardian which inexplicably declined it. I'm happy to make up for this lack of insight. Here it is: In just 15...
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What a load of rubbish
This was the title of an Economist special report on waste which was published about 6 weeks ago and which I've been meaning to write about ever since. If you want your students to have access to up-to-date info about...
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Farewell Erik Solheim; how you'll be missed by the airlines
I see from The Nation (essential reading) that Erik Solheim has resigned as executive director of UNEP. What a great loss. Solheim commented: "On Saturday, I received the final report on the audit of official travel undertaken by the UN’s...
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CEE in 1993
In 1993, the UK's Council for Environmental Education (CEE) celebrated its 25th birthday, and its annual report (which I have in front of me) had the message "Building on 25 years' experience". Happy days. CEE would have been 50 years old...
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Who cares about planetary biodiversity?
What follows is a guest posting from Professor Stephen Martin Yet another dire warning about the alarming loss of planetary biodiversity (Guardian 3 November: Two years to make a deal for nature or we face extinction). Once again this highlights...
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Who really thinks that environmental education will save us?
A wise academic once said to me that you're quids in if you've got some data; that is, if you've done some proper research. The problem with being retired from research is that you don't have data any more and...
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A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell's paper: Deep Adaptation (A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy) is challenging stuff. This is the Abstract: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of an...
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Hidden tribes
Niall Fergusson wrote in The Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago about Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarised Landscape, saying that it offers a new political typology that divides Americans into seven political categories: 1 Progressive activists: younger, highly engaged, secular,...
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The global temperature average
I went to listen to Phil Jones from the Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia the other afternoon at an I-SEE seminar. His title was: ‘The global temperature average: a history, recent changes and their context over the Late Holocene’ and this...