News and Updates

What is a climatarian diet, and can it save the world? – Pebble magazine (essential reading) has been looking into this idea.  In a nutshell, it says (no pun surely intended) the diet involves eating with the planet in mind....

I am just returned from Andy Stables' funeral in the parish church in Bulkington in Wiltshire.  It was a fitting tribute to a great man.  There is more to be said, but for now, the following extract from Wordsworth's Lines...

We are always getting reminders of how much our screen time has gone up or down.  I don't over-worry as I'm making up for all those years when the only screen was a box in the corner whose vertical hold...

In the middle of its consultation about its Sustainability and Climate Change draft strategy, the DfE has decided to run a survey.  This asks us which actions set out in the strategy are the most important to us, and seeks our our opinions...

I made the following response at a webinar last week where the latest research c/o Teacher Tap from Teach the Future and SOS-UK was presented.  You'll be able to find the research here in a few days. "Thanks for the invitation to...

I'd not intended to write about the latest scandal (Partygate) to overwhelm Westminster as it all seems a long way from learning and sustainability which is supposed to be the theme of the blog. However, today I found out that...

Tomorrow, the Bill promoted by Teach the Future and sponsored by Nadia Whittome MP, will receive its Second Reading in Parliament.  Whether it is moved on to the next stage in the parliamentary process depends on a vote in the House...

I see, thanks to the NAEE weekly round up, that the government has published the UK’s 3rd Climate Change Risk Assessment.  On the website, the Minister for the School System, Baroness Barran said this: “Building a more sustainable future is...

My friend Andy Stables died this morning of prostate cancer.  Over many years, I knew him as a research student, a colleague, a research collaborator, a clear-minded author, and as my Head of Department at Bath.  Of late, both kind...

I remembering walking on unimproved land along the English-side of the Solway; it would have been in the mid-1950s.  There was a rasping sound and the family friend with us said: "Listen to that; you might never hear it again"....