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A two orchid summer after all
Two years ago, two pyramidal orchids popped up in the meadow which takes over my front lawn every summer. Last year, there was no sign of them. This year they are back, and I did not notice their growing. I had...
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HEFCE’s Sustainable Development framework
"What's happened to HEFCE’s Sustainable Development framework that they consulted on 18 months ago", I hear you ask. Well, gathering dust, of course, electronically speaking. There are, however, rumours that HEFCE top brass may well be thinking about whether to start...
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The road to serfdom
Last week, The Guardian carried an article by Peter Scott (no relation) with the title: This bad bill will put universities on the road to serfdom. It begins: "The government’s argument that its new higher education bill will give legal backing to...
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Do we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature's migrants?
The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change – not only because this has been seen as a contributor to...
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Vote Remain for Nature
Vote Remain for Nature is a short, but irritating, film urging us all to vote to stay in the EU for the sake of nature. The blurb says: "Europe's protections keep Britain's wildlife, countryside and nature safe. Wildlife doesn't queue up at the...
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World-o-meters
Writing something about population, I stumbled across the Worldometers website. This has the goal of "making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world". It's owned by Dadax, which says it...
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Unesco and environmental education
I have read that UNESCO's annual report for 2016 is going to be about environmental education (that is, "education for people and planet"). Of course, it rather depends what it has to say, but, taken with UNEP's recent focus on environmental education, people...
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Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung ...
"Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Themen, Methoden und Trends" is the impressive title of my latest book – well, not really, it's a book that I have a modest chapter in. The editors are Matthias Barth and Marco Rieckmann. Most...
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Environmental education badly done
At the recent GEEP meeting, we watched a video of a child in floods of tears as he was about to be driven home from school. He was railing about what he'd learned about environmentally destructive policies: "Why are they...
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Sustainability and the NSS survey
I've written before about valiant attempts to insert some real-world questions about sustainability into the UK's national student survey within universities. It's all come to naught, it seems as Hefce hunkers (or is that bunkers?) down to concentrate on core questions;...
