News and Updates

The Economist – well-known for its fine graphs – published another last week.  This was about how electricity demand in California varies across a sunny day (most days that is), and how an increase in solar power availability (most of...

Jonathon Porritt tried hard to prioritise questions from young people at his seminar last week, but age muscled in, with some self-declaring as young and others saying they'd brought a young person with them and so it was o for...

I'd just finished yet another Skype meeting when I noticed the article in the Huff Post on academic airmiles: The Climate Change Hypocrisy Of Jet-Setting Academics.  There wasn't much new in this about the problem of academics (and others) jet-setting around...

As if Facebook weren't enough, Jonathon Poritt's seminar last week was gloom leavened with a little bit of hope.  He asked us, in relation to averting the coming climate apocalypse, where we were on a 0 totally pessimistic to 10 wholly...

Last Tuesday evening, I spend three hours watching drama.  First, there was Jonathon Porritt's I-SEE seminar in Bath, and then there was Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before a sprawling Senate mega-committee at the US Capitol. They were, of course, differently dramatic....

I often refer to being Quartered Safely in Wiltshire, partly this is in homage to George MacDonald Fraser; partly it is because it feels a safe place to be despite sheep rustling, quad bike thefts, traveller slave gangs, and the...

More from UNESCO's Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development  [A. Leicht, J. Heiss and W. J. Byun (eds)].  As I omitted to say when I last commented on this book, this is not a 'keep-you-awake-at-night' stuff.  But there are things...

Jonothon Porritt will be giving an I-SEE seminar at Bath on ‘Exploring the Psychodrama of Accelerating Climate Change’ on April 10th – tomorrow.  Details here. Here's his Abstract: The evidence about climate change keeps on getting worse – confirmed both by ever...

The Prince of Wales' website has a feature on HRH's March 26th trip to unveil a plaque on the shore of Derwentwater marking the [newish] UNESCO cultural world heritage site – the Lake District.  Details here. It includes this: "There...

There's a fine RSPB video about their work with United Utilities in a small Lake District valley, Swindale [the vale of the pig].  Here's Rory Stewart's description of Swindale: "Swindale has always felt like a hidden miracle – a tight-necked...