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The school climate conference on Wednesday, which was organised by the Green Schools Project, School 21, and WE, was designed "to provide rigorous knowledge, skills and motivation to allow young people to change the debate in their schools and local communities". So how...

I went to the school climate conference yesterday organised by the Green Schools Project, School 21, and WE (and by UCL).  It was designed "to provide rigorous knowledge, skills and motivation to allow young people to change the debate in their schools and...

I'm at this school climate conference today.  It coincides with London Climate Action Week. This conference is organised by the Green Schools Project, School 21, and WE, and is designed "to provide rigorous knowledge, skills and motivation to allow young people...

I found myself wondering how David A got to Glastonbury the other night for his adulatory walk-on congratulating the massed throng for their restraint in not using too many plastic bottles – he wasn't quite right in saying that none had...

The UN has revised down its population projections largely because birth rates are falling faster than expected in some developing countries. UN estimates are now that the global population will be about 9.7 billion in 2050, and around 10.9 billion in...

Last week, I read a message from the Global Center for Human Change – a not-for-profit organisation in New York – about a new resource: An Urgent Plea from the Future: A Guidebook for Conscious World Citizens. The message began:...

Last Friday, the Guardian published part of the results of a YouGov survey of teachers commissioned by Oxfam on behalf of the UKSCN.   Here are the full results:   Thinking generally about the UK's education system... To what extent,...

For me, the worst part of the BBC's lamentable 'debate' on Tuesday night was not the format (clearly designed for 4 candidates), the moderator's failure to be moderate, impartial or in control, or the poorly-constructed questions. Rather it was the...

I said yesterday that there had been wide-ranging approval for the decision to go for net-zero carbon [N-ZC] in the UK by 2050.  This is not universally the case, however, and a number of points have emerged. The first is...

The reactions to the UK government's commitment to N-ZC (net-zero carbon) by 2050 have been pretty positive both here and elsewhere, although it failed to get a mention at last week's parish council (PC) meeting where discussion was (literally and...