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That Dull Green Sheen "Government pulls plug on funding for Green Deal Finance Company after only 10,000 homes sign up to energy household efficiency programme." Farewell then, to the Green Deal, That revolution in upgrading Britain’s Old and draughty housing...

In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] were formed to galvanise efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest.  Eight goals were defined and 21 targets were set to be completed by 2015.  To mark the final year of this programme, Taylor...

Phew!  What a relief; I was beginning to wonder ... .  Actually, it was a "big success", according to a co-chair of the congress – that's how these international evaluations tend to go.  You can read the full detail on the Transformative Learning...

There are 3 UN conference this year; two of these you know all about: the September meeting to agree the SDGs and the December meeting to try to sort out what to do about climate change. The first is likely...

It was news to me that fish don't metabolise those fabled fish oils — DHA and EPA — themselves; rather, these come via the food that the fish eat.  The oils are made by single-celled algae which then pass through...

The Guardian reports that although Ban Ki-moon has hailed the achievements of the millennium development goals, he has warned that the world is still riven by inequality.  The paper begins its report: The millennium development goals (MDGs) have driven “the most successful anti-poverty movement in...

Confirmation from the provinces that those folk at FACE have grand ambitions for themselves and others.  Hence the Countryside Classroom, which, according to FACE is: "... an online portal that enables teachers to quickly and easily access high-quality resources, as well as identifying venues...

"In summertime on Bredon The bells they sound so clear; Round both the shires they ring them In steeples far and near, A happy noise to hear." Whilst I was incarcerated in the University of East London last week, at Natural...

The Guardian reports that a British field trial of a GM wheat that was designed to repel aphids has found the crop to have no better protection than conventional wheat.  The trials compared aphid attacks on standard wheat plants with those suffered by...

This is the symbol of the Glastonbury Ethos: ... which says: Glastonbury Festival was founded in 1970, long before people began to become concerned about climate change. Yet even then all the milk and the cider and the straw came...