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Another blog from Madison
Here's a link to another of the thoughts from Morgan Phillips about his time with NAAEE in Madison. This is how it begins: "The NAAEE Annual Conference is in its 45th year, fourteen years ago conference decided it needed to...
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Another day; another Manchester symposium
I see that there's another dodgy-sounding symposium in Manchester next March. Its prolix title is: Symposium on Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities: teaching approaches, methods, examples and case studies The dreary blurb says: "One of the major barriers to...
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Every Tam, Dougie and Hamish is working on the SDGs it seems
There's evidence that our friends in North Britain are slowly getting up to speed on the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]. Learning for Sustainability Scotland [LfSS] says it is now working with members to develop a new task group focusing on...
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Report from the Madison GEEP
Here's Morgan Phillips on the GEEP meeting which began this week in Wisconsin. I'll relay more of this as it becomes available.
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For now's the time for your tears
The gorilla which failed in its attempted jail break in London last week, rather obliquely, reminded me that Swedes really do have a sense of humour. That is, the story brought to mind a line from (for me) the most...
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Frack off from Wiltshire
I'm told that the companies that had expressed an interest in drilling for oil / gas / whatever in the part of Wiltshire where I live, have decided not to take up the opportunity. This might be seen as a...
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Last word on the two Olympics
It's hard to believe all that effort is now over (apart from drug-related controversy) for another four years. I enjoyed what I saw of it. In listening to UK athletes talking about their struggles and sometime success, I was struck...
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Aggressive photocopying
I once had a colleague who was full of wit and wisdom, but who was always getting into scrapes. He was once accused (it was the 1980s) of using a photocopier in an overly masculine and patriarchal fashion. I fear that people...
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GEEPing time again
There will be another meeting of the GEEP group in October which will be co-incident with the NAAEE annual conference in Madison, WI. I'll be attending by Sykpe, off and on, but the UK will have a presence in person...
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Cross-Generational Understandings of Environment and Climate Change
I went to a seminar on Cross-Generational Understandings of Environment and Climate Change: public attitudes, education and international experience at Pembroke College, Cambridge, the other week. It was good to be back in the Fens, even if the fast train from Tottenham...
