News and Updates

When the saintly Tony Blair said  "Although now is not the time for sound-bites, I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder ..." (or somesuch), I fear that I must have cringed and groaned, probably in equal measure....

It seems that Waste Watch and Keep Britain Tidy are to merge (although you'd be hard pressed to know this from looking at their web sites this morning).  Speculation has been rife about the new organisation's name, with the hot...

... well, enormous hope and expectation at the very least. LiFE (Learning in Future Environments) is EAUC's rebranded, refurbished and soon-to-be relaunched Universities that Count project.  It is funded by the four UK Higher Education Funding Councils: the Higher Education...

Think Global reports that the Secretary of State for International Development has announced a new schools programme around development education which is "supported by the Secretary of State for Education".  It seems that this will involve working with schools in...

It was a distinctly odd moment when I discovered today that there were Australian conference rumours that I had died, and I was relieved to discover that it wasn't true –  another Prof Scott, it seems: Phil from Leeds. When I heard the...

Sadly, but inevitably perhaps, Defra seems to have sided with the views of farmers over the interpretation of scientific evidence in relation to bovine TB.  Whilst proposing to cull badgers gives the public the impression of decisive action (unless you've...

Buying a cup of coffee recently, I noticed a sign which said that the company would be happy to let you have the coffee grounds left over from your drink so you could take them home — for composting, putting...

We raised a modest glass yesterday to mark a generating milestone as the village's only solar generator [ Semington A ] passed the 1 MWh mark.  It has taken 60 days to reach this amount of energy output and it is...

A kind colleague, someone better read than me, pointed me to a recent Thinkpiece by Lancaster’s Paul Trowler.  In it, are the points he made in a talk to leaders involved in a sustainable university initiative.  He set out some...

The papers today have what I thought might have been be a universally-welcomed good news story about the government's reducing some of the Health & Saftey red tape around out of school activties with a cutting of the "guidance" from...