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Quoting Mae West again
Something happened the other week which makes me think I may have come of age. EER received a paper with a made-up citation which claimed that Annette Gough and I had published this: Gough, A., & Scott, W. (2017). Reviewing...
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The balance of nature in crisis
Nature in the Balance ? Balance of Nature? Balance in Nature? Balance in teaching about Nature? Writing in a recent Times, Jenni Russel said this: "Nature is in crisis. Soils are being depleted faster than they can regenerate, wildlife populations...
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Sense and Sustainability?
"I hate tree huggers.* This isn't what I think; I've hugged quite a few trees in my time and will do so again. No. It's reported to come from the leader of the Labour Party. The Sunday Times reports that...
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Who's afraid of the FED?
You can't have missed the publicity around the launch of the FED's National Education Consultation Report 2023 - Towards a long-term plan for education at the House of Lords last week. As the FED itself modestly noted: "What a significant week...
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A £25 million heritage sticking plaster
I see that the Government has launched a £25m Species Survival Fund to boost restoration of natural habitats. It says that this will help to drive action to reduce habitat loss and safeguard the UK’s fragile ecosystems and create nature-rich landscapes. This comes c/o the Heritage...
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The Root Causes of Global Warming
Following my posts about the inadequacy of the Royal Meteorological Society's definition of climate literacy, I received the following comment: "My big problem with all this is that climate education is being deliberately narrowed, and climate change is being framed...
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Meow
I sometimes find myself thinking what I might have become had I not spotted that job at the University of Bath back in 1977. I was teaching at the time and so becoming a headteacher might have been a possibility...
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Symptoms, Disease and Climate Literacy
I've written a couple of posts recently on climate literacy. I'm writing again just to record an unease. Climate Literacy crops up a lot these days, in part at least because of the need to think about climate education;...
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The Committee on Climate Change wakes up
I see that the auto-crats employed by the Climate Change Committee have woken up to the fact that hybrid cars don't do many miles on their electric motors – that's because their batteries are so small. These cars are really...
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A Long Spoon?
This is an email that was recently sent to a range of organisations including: UKSSN; NEU's Climate Change Network; IoE's Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education; Education Climate Coalition; The Harmony Project; Ministry of Eco Education; Global Action Plan; SOS-UK;...
