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Here's an extract from the report of the inaugural UK SDGs Summit that was held last autumn. The Inaugural UK SDGs Summit The new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which came into effect on 1 January 2016, are a...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values was finally published in 1974 after being turned down by 121 publishers.  This remains a record for a successful book. I have read it at least twice.  The first...

EAUC has made what must have been a hurried submission to the government's 'Building our Industrial Strategy' green paper.  I say this because it seems the only way to explain this sentence: "The combined budget of our members is some £25...

So says a less than critical article on the Mother Nature Network [MNN]. Well, to be picky, it actually says that "Watching nature documentaries boosts happiness.  Anxiety and fear give way to joy and awe when we tune into scenes...

I mentioned Henry Hobhouse's Seeds of Change: The 6 plants that transformed mankind the other day.  I read this many years ago now, along with his  Seeds of Wealth: 5 plants that made men rich.  I read his Forces of Change: an unorthodox...

A few years ago, The Onion ran a story about the growth of teen suicides in the USA.  They reported that the large numbers involved were seen as less of a problem than the evidence of (il)literacy in their suicide...

The Economist has a lengthy article on the economics of sugar production – as controlled by the EU's complex set of regulations and rules.  It's worth a read for an insight into how complicated the production of a simple product...

I see that a reasonably normal person is standing for NUS President.  That's Tom Harwood.  You can see him here. Tom says that "Together we can make the NUS more inclusive, moderate, and credible".  You can see more at: TomForNUS.com...

Last year, the Commission on Geographical Education (CGE) published an International  Charter on Geographical Education.  This imposing tome fails the real-world test at the first hurdle.  Despite this being a 2016 publication, there is only one reference to the SDGs.  This is...

It is being said that the UK has one of the worst records for protecting native wildlife, and intensive farming is largely to blame.  56% of the 8,000 species assessed have declined in the past four decades with almost 1,200 species at...