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Give me a child until they're three ...
... and the world will be a nicer place. That seemed to be the message from one of the presentations I listened to at the Primary Education: what is and what might be conference last Friday. The excellent event was...
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The price of coal
The 8th of November might have been a good day for American coal, at least in the short term. But the previous year had been quite good as the Telegraph reported last week with the global price of coal rising 100%...
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A new university in Wiltshire
I see that Wiltshire is to have a new university – its first. This will be c/o James Dyson who, fed up with the lack of engineers to choose from for his business, has decided to do something about it....
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Late warnings from UNEP
UNEP's emissions gap report (2016) makes for uneasy reading, but is probably a necessary counter to all the over-positivity that has surrounded the recent 'agreement' of the Paris Agreement. The report calls for less complacency all round. Here's the start...
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Pity the poor Swedes
I wrote about the summary report of the Living Planet Index last week and thought it much less apocalyptic than the Guardian headline writers. It is, of course, full of facts 'n' figures which make absorbing reading. There are a few surprises...
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Unlock the lock-ins
As slogans go, "Unlock the lock-ins" is up there with "Rectify the anomaly" and "Stronger together". In fact, it's way ahead as it manages to be both meaningless and misleading at the same time which is quite something. That is,...
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I can't believe ...
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...
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The Golden Age
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,...
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So what should we do about this sad story?
Here is Jorgan Randers on what to do about the environmental crisis we are in. The pdf is adapted from his 2012 lecture in the 10th Annual Distinguished Lecture Series in Sustainable Development, hosted by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability...
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From Holocene to Anthropocene
Today's post is by Stephen Martin who attended the inaugural WWF Living Planet Lecture, that took place at the Royal Society on November 3rd, where the guest speakers included Sir David Attenborough and Professor Johan Rockstrom. Steve writes: Professor Johan Rockstrom was the main...
