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Riesling, Roads and Rye
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...
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Good news for environmental educators – well, sort of
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...
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Sustainability at Bath
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...
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Following the Referendum ...
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...
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Another day; another world heritage site
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...
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Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways
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,...
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New blood pumping at think global
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...
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Adjectival good order
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...
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To Bristol ...
To Bristol last week for a meeting of the strategic research group on learning in natural environments – LINE. It was a small group which meant there could be a free-flowing exchange of views, with ideas building on ideas. Well structured...
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The CO2 emissions of sacred cows
The CO2 emissions of sacred cows is by Indiana University's Richard Wilk and it is reproduced in full here, with his permission, and my recommendation, as a provocative (in the best sense) read. I have been thinking about energy conservation issues since 1982...
