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Vital statistics
I was scribbling about global warming and went to the NASA website. As well as some fine pictures – they do have some of the world's best camera angles – the screen shows some key climate change / global warming...
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Parochial thinking about the neoliberal project
Did you catch this obituary about neoliberalism in the Guardian from Martin Jacques? Rather wishful thinking, I felt, and astonishingly neglectful of the world beyond the USA-EU-UK axis. What about the world’s poor and the SDGs, I wondered … ....
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So, how did it feel?
I made my usual Olympics resolution not to get drawn in to it all, and the 5 hour time difference ensured that I didn't watch too much. But I did follow the track cycling drama which, if you listen to whinging foreigners,...
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A settled sentimental socialist
This was Engles' verdict on William Morris, and the quote was prominently displayed in the house where he lived as a teenager, and which I visited recently. It's now the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, and makes for a fine day...
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Post EERA-ECER 2014 reflections
The latest EER contains papers from a symposium in Network 30 at the EERA-ECER conference in Porto in 2014. The symposium had an international and inter-disciplinary focus on environmental, sustainability, global and development education research looking at ethical and political issues within these areas....
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Has Earth anything to show more fair in Dublin
I'm not going to EERA-ECER in Dublin which starts next week. It would have been good to see so many familiar faces, but I no longer appreciate sitting around all day (for several days) listening to people read their papers....
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Is it time for green infrastructure QE?
Although the answer's probably "no!", it's a question that's out there, posed by Richard Murphy, who writes the Tax Research UK blog. Although the blog post raising this question is from 2015, interest is probably being stimulated again by the...
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Boycott or Sabotage – could you tell the difference?
There was the usual excitement at this year’s NUS National Conference. It passed an amendment to Motion 201 in the Education Zone debate calling on NUS to determine the most effective strategy to either boycott or sabotage the 2017 National Student...
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Even more natural connections: satire or just a timely comment?
I thought that I'd written my last word (for all time) on Natural Connections, the project, but I'd missed the interview that the head of the project team gave to the BBC about the final report. It's here – and...
