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Real World Learning outdoors
I commented on the web-based Real World Learning [RWL] model a couple of months ago, and I wasn't impressed. I said: "Too clever by half, would be a kind judgement. More muddle than model, another. A pity, as there might...
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Natural Connections calls the DfE
This is my last post about the Natural Connections event in Plymouth last week. The most telling point came at the end of the day when someone asked: "What about the DfE?” What indeed, I thought. The response was that the...
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Question Time in Plymouth
This is my third post about the Natural Connections event in Plymouth last week. When the audience was eventually allowed to have a say, here are the "questions" and responses I heard, together with my comments ... A. "Can you separate...
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Natural Disconnections in Plymouth
This is my second post about the Natural Connections event in Plymouth last week. As I noted on Thursday morning, I set off for the meeting with a heavy heart, as the format of the programme suggested they'd learned nothing about organising a...
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Gore and the Green Alliance
What follows is Steve Martin's recent posting to the SHED-SHARE network: Al Gore poses a crucial question: Is David Cameron really willing and able to lead on climate change? Al Gore is puzzled by David Cameron and the UK political scene,...
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On the rocky road to Dawlish
It's always good to spend endless time on Last Great Western (which I must now refer to as GWR, it seems; what a travesty!) and pootle slowly down to Plymouth (via Dawlish) to see a real sustainable university in action....
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Only +2.7 degrees? No need to worry
Recently, the late night news programmes on both main TV channels had features about COP21. These both drew heavily on what Christiana Figueres, the UN climate chief, has been saying. Noting that 155 countries have already put forward detailed plans covering 88% of global CO2...
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Drill Or Drop
Drill or Drop is a website publishing "independent, evidence-based" journalism about the onshore oil and gas business in the UK and the campaign against it. It is named after the “drill or drop” clause in a petroleum exploration and development licence that requires...
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The Swedes add an 18th SDG
As if 17 global goals were not enough, along comes an 18th, although it is not from the UN. Rather, it's from a Swedish band, The Knife, which, unsurprisingly, I had not heard of. You can listen to them here; ABBA they...
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My heroes of the week
Time for some relief from all the angst that usually fills these columns. Here are the heroes I've come across this week (some rather belatedly): beacons of sense and sanity to us all ... Bertie Pollock, who set fire to his father's...
