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Don't ask WWF or the Guardian how to grow food
There was a picture in a recent Guardian of a boy with two potatoes firmly impaled on a garden fork. The caption is: "A pupil at Coastlands Community primary school in Pembrokeshire shows there’s a real appetite for growing food. Schools are...
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Learning and education after sustainability
A rare event these days; I've had a new paper published – on Taylor & Francis Online in a special issue of the journal Global Discourse, edited by John Foster. It's in response to a paper by Steve Gough in...
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The Inaugural UK SDG Summit
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...
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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...
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SDGs for the UK?
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has produced a report on the SDGs. This is the summary: By adopting Agenda 2030 the Government has committed itself to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals - or the Global Goals - in...
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Hail, Shakira
Goodbye, then, Malia; absolutely no one will miss you. In a bold move, the NUS has bundled its terrible President off the stage after only a year in office. Malia B was challenged by Shakira Martin whom I know as she was a member...
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EAUC reaches parts others can only dream of
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...
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BBC nature programmes on TV are good for you
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...
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Remembering Henry Hobhouse
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...
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Who needs satire any more?
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...
