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10 Green Groups
... have written to No. 10 to complain about government policy on the environment. The NAEE website has the detail. The signatories style themselves: "the leaders of ten leading UK charities concerned with protection of the environment", which made me wonder why...
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
I've been reading Steven Weinberg's 'Lake Views: this world and the universe'. It's a lucid collection of essays and other writings. In the chapter, Without God, Weinberg discusses the 12th century Sufi philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali [1058-1111 CE] who wrote The Incoherence of...
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Anyone for EYD?
Did you know it was the EYD? I didn't either. I still didn't, when someone explained that EYD stood for the European Year of Development. This, it seems, is an EU gambit that's setting out to increase our understanding of the...
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Thought for August
Why do meetings to discuss the importance of learning outside the classroom tend to take place indoors?
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Ahelo Goodbye
Last week's THE has this headline: World’s university ‘oligopoly’ accused of blocking OECD bid to judge learning quality ... with a great image of great animals blocking a US highway (that is, the economy and implied progress). There were no pictures of...
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More on ELSA – or should that be ELSIE?
Following my recent news about the re-birth of the English Learning and Sustainability Alliance [ELSA] – which could yet be premature – I've been thinking about the name problem. Here's my suggestion for removing the confusion between ELSA, the organisation, and Elsa,...
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Addis Ababa's Alliterative Action Agenda
As I noted earlier, the UN 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development took place in July in Addis Ababa. The UN says it was a success: Countries reach historic agreement to generate financing for new sustainable development agenda. Countries today...
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Which fossil fuel subsidies would you cut?
If you are of a particular frame of mind, it is fashionable these days to call for renewable energy subsidies to be cut / phased out / stopped (according to taste). They are, after all, inflating our tax and electricity...
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The Big Path Watch – how was it for you?
The Ramblers are encouraging us all, through its big path watch, to adopt a local grid square, walk all the rights of way within it, and report back to them on any problems found, and more generally, on how it...
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Is ELSA about to be born again?
I've not written about ELSA recently as there has not been anything to say. For example, its development group has not met for over a year, and it has not made any recent contribution to national debate about sustainability and...
