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To all my friends in the USA, I can only offer the crumb of comfort to be found in this video from Not the Nine-o-Clock News in 1982.  It sings for itself.  Just make sure you watch it right to the...

There are still environmentalists who think that a return to a golden age is possible – if only if we all do more of this or less of the other.  You know, that time when there was no social injustice,...

According to Saints Matthew and Luke, when Christ was commanded by Satan to turn stones into bread to show his divine powers, he declined, saying that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.  Well, that's as...

The Guardian had a piece last week on extinctions.  Its headline was: World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns This reports on the publication of the Living Planet Index which "shows that vertebrate populations are...

It's been something of a paradox for a while now that the University of Bath takes sustainability seriously across all its activities, but keeps quiet about it, relatively speaking. No longer it seems.  Monday and Tuesday of this week saw...

Tonight's I-SEE seminar is a return by Professor John Loughhead, the Chief Scientific Advisor and Director General at the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy.  This is the Abstract of his talk: Following the Referendum result on continuing membership of the EU...

UNESCO's world heritage sites [WHS] are a wide-ranging in scope and focus.  The UK has 30 of them.  Some are natural, but most are deemed cultural; one, St Kilda, is said to be both, although many could be so designated.  They...

In preparation for the Natural England meeting last week, I read the University of Essex's Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways report: Pretty J, Angus C, Bain M, Barton J, Gladwell V, Hine R, Pilgrim S, Sandercock S and Sellens M. 2009. Nature,...

Think Global has appointed a new CEO, Jess McQuail, who is currently Executive Director at the charity Basic Needs.  Jess has over 20 years' experience in the UK and international not-for-profit sector and is passionate about working for a more...

I'm no fan of the excessive use of adjectives.  More to the point, I'm no fan of the use of adjectives.  This unpreference has grown out of my reading of too many academic papers rendered both prolix and otiose by strings of...