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All those useful holes under the North Sea
According to the Telegraph the other week, the UK (that might mean Scotland) will be quids in because of all the empty(ish) oil and gas wells under the North Sea – just right (and almost ready) for the CO2 that...
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Nothing's a long way further than Telford
There are good reasons why Housman set his poem comparing Shropshire and London in Knighton, rather than Telford, not least because the River Teme doesn't flow through the north of the county; Telford's being a new town may also have had...
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Simon Barnes on the Rhino
Here's Simon Barnes writing in the Spectator about the sad plight of the rhino. Comments seem superfluous.
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Quality Education, Zanu PF and ESD
As a post-script to my recent posting about Zimbabwe, I searched for Quality Education on the Zanu PF website (required reading from now on, I think) and was led to this speech by Mugabe. No wonder he's a leader of men (and...
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Let's make October 5th Nick Clegg Day
Nick Clegg's new plastic bag tax / charge comes into effect on October 5th across England. From that date, retailers with >250 full-time (equivalent) employees will have to charge at least 5p for the single-use plastic bag. The idea is to encourage...
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There but for the Grace [of] Mugabe, go we all
I don't know about you, but I always find Arjen Wals' Transformative Learning blog both entertaining and informative. It is, for example, one of the few places you can go to keep up to date with the growing amount of plastics...
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Carbon literacy in Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University [MMU] says that it is leading the world when it comes to teaching students to become “carbon literate”. It seems that students from MMU's Department of Food and Tourism Management have become the first in the world to gain a...
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LOtC – learning what, not where
The folk that run Learning Outside the Classroom say you can improve personal development through learning outside the classroom. Well, I suppose they would, just as you can do this in all sorts of other ways – such as inside the classroom....
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The Crying Indian – keeping America beautiful
Did you ever see the iconic advert for litter involving Iron Eyes Cody? I didn't either at the time, but it's here, along with a feature by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on the many confusions around [i] the idea of...
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Bye then People 'n' Planet
It seems that the People 'n' Planet league table of universities, with its arr[og]ant 'degree' classifications, may have gone the way of all flesh. Those who say they know about such matters think it's a dundeal. P&P probably got tired of...
