News and Updates

I've been suspicious for a while now of how the Green party views economics – feeling that the faithful thinks that economic concepts can be rewritten to suit themselves – they are not alone there, of course.  However, I have always assumed –...

I am off to the University of Plymouth today for the Education for Sustainability in Higher Education: Achievements & Prospects conference.  If you're not there, the hashtag is #sustedPU . It's a full day.  It begins with a keynote from Jane Davidson (INSPIRE, University of...

It seems that the UNEP chief has been given an i3 car by BMW, though for how long, isn't clear.  The decal on the side of the car says: "100% electric", but that depends what the electricity was made from.  Nobody is...

Here are a couple of further comments on the letter that Steve Martin and I got from the DfE just before New Year.  I have already written about the "we were busy reorganising" excuse they gave for not going to Japan. 1....

You'll have noted that UK ministers gave the following reason for their absence at UNESCO's Nagoya ESD-fest: "... heavy diary commitments of ... a relatively new ministerial team in England, and the post-Referendum reshuffle of responsibilities in Scotland". There you are.  Such...

Here is the response that Steve Martin and I have had from the DfE in response to a letter we sent to Nicki Morgan at the end of November.  See what you make of it; I'll be commenting on a...

No wonder Druids are more confused than usual this time of year when sunset started getting later around December 15th, and the sunrise will only be earlier after January 1st – even though their blessed Solstice was on December 21st.  Actually, it was at...

A while back, The Economist recently had a brief piece (and nice graph) on grade inflation in the Ivy league, reporting that the median grade at Harvard is now A–, with A as the mode.  But hang on, the Economist said,...

Is it any real surprise that 11000 'delegates' in Peru failed to come to a decisive outcome over the last couple of weeks in COP20?  How was that supposed to happen?  The COPs, which started out as modest affairs, have grown...

This morning's Guardian has a gloomy update on COP20 from Lima which shows that all the usual fault lines are still in place – not enough cash and bad faith galore.  The piece ends: In addition to finance, one of the...