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I'm grateful to Nick Jones for forwarding the latest newsletter from the BRE group which reports that 70% of UK concrete is now responsibly sourced, and covered by BRE Global’s BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing certification. Being curious as to what...

Next Easter, classics Professor, Edith Hall, is moving across London, from Royal Holloway to King's in a move prompted, we're told, by her present university's reaction to funding changes.  The Observer, today, carried some detail of the ins and outs...

Saudi Arabia is one of two countries that have declined to endorse a report on the Green Climate Fund, one of the few ideas, you'll recall, that was spawned in 2009 in the UN meeting that became known as Nopenhagen....

Now that Saif al-Islam has been found skulking in the desert, maybe the LSE will be able to get its PhD back.  Celebrations all round.

The Economist carries a short piece this week on well-connected efforts to make the Isle of Wight self-sufficient in just about everything: the Isle of Green.  However, as an irregular traveller on the Red Jet service from Southampton to Cowes,...

A good day at the Hampshire Collegiate School on Friday, opening their splendid new learning outside the classroom facilities.  What a wonderful setting for the addition of a building that is not only nicely designed and constructed (by their own...

It's with sadness that I note the death of Philip Neal last Tuesday night; November 15th.  Anyone who knows anything about the development of environmental education in the UK will understand the contribution that Philip made over many years, and in...

I watched two videos yesterday.  The first was the latest communications output from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation; the second a promotional video from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust in anticipation of its 50th year celebrations in 2012.  Regular readers will know...

I had the rare privilege on Friday of listening to UK and US architects talking together about school design with sustainability in mind – not that the US folk talk about sustainability or carbon reduction all that much, not when...

With apologies to Dr Seuss who probably never went to either Machynlleth (Mach) or the Centre for Alternative Technology (the Cat) even when its technology was actually alternative as opposed to pretty mainstream. I enjoyed my visit to the Cat...