News and Updates

Climate Emergency Manchester invited me for an email interview recently.  This is what I wrote in response to their questions: – A little bit about who you are, how you came to be interested in issues of "the environment", education and...

Where I searched the UK National Archive from 1960 to the present for the phrase "environmental education" I came up with 26 entries.  These started in 1972 with items about environmental education in Bournemouth, Hertfordshire and Doncaster.  Prominent entries related to the Belgrade...

I watched the launch of the UK's newest news channel on Sunday.  GB News is the UK’s first new news channel for some while.  In his opening remarks, Andrew Neil set out the channel’s philosophy: "We will puncture the pomposity...

As promised, I didn't pay much attention to the UNESCO World Confluence on ESD but I have been looking at the resulting Berlin Declaration.  "Declaration", I ask you!  The obvious and unsubtle aim here is to encourage us to think of...

An Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) Bill has been introduced into the House of Lords to "make provision in the national curriculum regarding sustainable citizenship and protection of the environment."  It's a private members' bill and is 6th in line for debate....

I've been observing No Mow May on my front lawn for much longer than Plant-life's recent campaign, and I always extend it into Just Grow June as well, as I watch  the 2nd law of thermodynamics bring glorious disorder.  It's good...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published report, setting out its proposals for achieving ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions that gas boilers should be banned from 2025 to combat climate change, and achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of the century.  It...

I've been watching The People Vs Climate Change on IPlayer.  This engaging film follows members of the UK’s first ever Citizens Assembly on climate change, where 108 people – selected to represent the country – were challenged about what we should...

I see that unesco's latest global gabfest launches this week.  It's the world conference on esd with interminable lectures and panels.  I predict that there will be much grandstanding, virtue signalling and sanctimonious pontificating, and no doubt myriad folk will...

I used to think that being US Secretary of State was a busy job (North Korea / China / Germany / Iran / Afghanistan / Russia / Palestine / Yemen / ...), but Antony Blinken took a lot of time...