News and Updates

I'm back from the south coast having seen the coastal erosion at first hand from the top of the cliffs, and watched a slurry of mud slither down a blue lias outcrop as we walked along the shore.  I managed not...

How many of the 25,000 schools in the UK will be suspending or changing the timetable for any of their students some time over the next 10 days so that they can follow and discuss COP21?  I've no idea either, but...

In my desire to find something positive about the forthcoming Paris climate talks, I turned to Buzzfeed – quite essential viewing these days, don't you find? Sure enough, COP21 was explained through the medium of Beyoncé GIFs: "The most important meeting in history...

Reuters chose an apt photograph of Paris to illustrate a report on the dim prospects for COP21.  It begins: Before a summit on climate change in Paris next week, many governments are citing scientific studies indicating that their plans to...

I spent an enjoyable day in London last week at a joint meeting of two of Natural England's strategic research groups: the National Outdoors for All SRG, and the Learning in Natural Environments SRG.  I am part of the latter, but...

I commented on the web-based Real World Learning [RWL] model a couple of months ago, and I wasn't impressed.  I said: "Too clever by half, would be a kind judgement.  More muddle than model, another.  A pity, as there might...

This is my last post about the Natural Connections event in Plymouth last week. The most telling point came at the end of the day when someone asked: "What about the DfE?” What indeed, I thought.  The response was that the...

This is my third post about the Natural Connections event in Plymouth last week. When the audience was eventually allowed to have a say, here are the "questions" and responses I heard, together with my comments ... A. "Can you separate...

What follows is Steve Martin's recent posting to the SHED-SHARE network: Al Gore poses a crucial question: Is David Cameron really willing and able to lead on climate change? Al Gore is puzzled by David Cameron and the UK political scene,...

It's always good to spend endless time on Last Great Western (which I must now refer to as GWR, it seems; what a travesty!) and pootle slowly down to Plymouth (via Dawlish) to see a real sustainable university in action....