News and Updates

I wondered about this as I was browsing the recent flush of 'zoos are a problem – but we love them' stories in the media.  According to Wiktionary, there isn't such a term – yet.  But I think that NAEE might just have...

The Economist recently ran a story under the headline: Genetically Modified People.  The graphic was itself appropriately graphic. The point of the piece was that human beings’ ancestors routinely absorbed genes from other species.  The article began: OPPONENTS of genetically modified crops often...

Another well-written post from the Daly News landed in my in-box last week.  It's focus was how economics has ignored thermodynamics over the years and centuries.  I touched on the issues it raises in my talk at Cambridge last week...

Several newspapers this week, and the PM programme on Radio 4, have covered a story about the RSPB in Cheshire as it appears to seek to sell land for housing that it was given in a legacy on the proviso...

As I mentioned last week, Ken Webster and I shared a platform yesterday in Cambridge, at a Climate Histories seminar hosted by the wonderfully named CRASSH – the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Ken explored the...

I count myself blessed that I don't have to teach about climate change.  It's hard enough to take a coherent view yourself than to have to help others take their own stand on it.  And where to begin?  Normally, I'd...

In case you're wondering what happened to the EMF – the Ellen MacArthur Foundation – here's an update. You'll recall that it began in 2010 with the aim to inspire a generation to rethink, redesign and build a positive future.  The Foundation works with...

Yesterday, I wrote about some of the positives of renewable energy, including the large strides that China is making.  The latest Economist adds some perspective to those figures with a story of dubious financial activity in Beijing and Hong Kong, leading...

Here are a few factoids: Rooftop solar is growing worldwide by 50% per year. In 1985 solar cost $12 per watt, but today’s prices are closer to 36 cents per watt. Every five hours the world adds 23 MW of...

The RSPB says that Cetti's warbler is a small nondescript bird which skulks around, keeping out of sight.  This may be a sound survival strategy.  It has bred here since 1973.  Gary Mantle mentioned it in one of his recent blog posts.  It has...