News and Updates

I see that a jobbing duchess has been foolish enough to describe universities as “male, pale and stale”.  This is an easy gibe to make if you don't look carefully into background data, and which busy duchess has time for...

No doubt you read George Monbiot's piece in the Guardian the other week on the school climate strikes.  I was underwhelmed in part, at least, because of its diffuse focus.  But it was the failure to mention curriculum that was...

Today's guest blog is by Dr Stephen Martin, WWF Fellow and Policy Advisor to the UK National Commission for UNESCO. George Monbiot (Guardian 20 February) is right to support and celebrate the global movement of young people who have begun a series...

I gave just over £10 to the Drax power station last year so that it could burn wood to generate electricity.  So did you – if you pay tax in the UK.  Of course 'gave' is misleading as I wasn't...

Have you been enjoying the balmy weather?  The warmest February ever, we’re told, since recording began. Although we never quite reached the dizzy heights of Aberwystykh's 20 on Monday, or Kew's 21.2 yesterday, it was warm enough and enjoyable.  The...

The SHED-SHARE mailbase had a message from its co-ordinator the other day.  It said: Greetings SHED-ers Does anyone know if there have been any conversations with AdvanceHE is establishing an ESD Community of Practice?  With push from the community they...

Being no fan of Google, I gave a small cheer the other week when France’s data-protection regulator announced that it had found the company's data-collection practices to be in breach of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation and fined it a modest €50m....

Although I don't, all who consume chicken might like [or not] to read the Economist's recent detailing of the industry.  This is how it starts: "In a shed on a poultry farm just outside Colchester, in south-east England, thousands of...

A whole lot of folk have worked themselves up in a lather of indignation because a few thousand young people left their schools last Friday to protest about the lack of governmental action about climate change.  A few of the...

Will they be in school?  Or will they be protesting about the ecological crisis facing the world and the lack of policy focus on it?   We're told that there will be a growing number of such protests where adding...