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In 2007, at WEEC in Durban, I was asked to speak about environmental education research since Tbilisi, to explore what we might learn from this work, and look ahead to the challenges that then faced us as a community engaged in...

Someone at WEEC has just sent me this: Very good, I thought; but it couldn't apply to me, could it?

If so minded, you can follow the official outpourings of WEEC 8 on Twitter: @WEEC2015  – but you really should be outside.  Here are a few of the highlights so far (and my indented comments ...) Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson talks about...

Amazon, in addition to selling stuff, is now in the time-shifting business.  From 1200 today, 30th June, to 1200 on 1 July, the universal second, according to Amazon, will be slightly longer than seconds everywhere else.  This is because of the...

Three conferences in one WEEC – and what to do? There's WEEC 8 in Göteborg at the start of the weec, but enough's been said for now about that.  Then there's the National Sustainable Schools conference in Bristol, and the International Outdoor...

I wrote a while back about the best conference I have ever attended as far as keynote addresses were concerned.  There were 3 stunning ones.  I won't repeat any of the detail – but it's here.  Most of the rest have...

Those readers concerned that business is not taking climate change seriously enough might find some (probably small) encouragement from an article [ Walking the walk ] in the Economist which looks at European business and climate change.  It begins: "SIX big...

I noted back in February that UN negotiators had produced "an early draft" of the text for the climate deal in Paris next December.  Their initial text had been 38 pages long, but negotiators managed to whittle it down to 86 pages to make...

I wrote back in May about  the growth of renewables in electricity generation. It was a positive picture.  Today's post is a somewhat more sober one. A recent BP report says that world-wide solar energy generation grew by 38% last...

Are you looking forward to WEEC at the end of June?  The programme says that there are 23 keynote speakers.  "23!", I thought, "that's over 7 a day; hardly time for lunch. Who's going to eat all that herring?" I need not have...