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E-beta-farnesene is best in short bursts
The Guardian reports that a British field trial of a GM wheat that was designed to repel aphids has found the crop to have no better protection than conventional wheat. The trials compared aphid attacks on standard wheat plants with those suffered by...
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Glastonbury's Green and Unpleasant land
This is the symbol of the Glastonbury Ethos: ... which says: Glastonbury Festival was founded in 1970, long before people began to become concerned about climate change. Yet even then all the milk and the cider and the straw came...
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Another WEEC, but it's still a good question
In 2007, at WEEC in Durban, I was asked to speak about environmental education research since Tbilisi, to explore what we might learn from this work, and look ahead to the challenges that then faced us as a community engaged in...
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Weec at the knees
Someone at WEEC has just sent me this: Very good, I thought; but it couldn't apply to me, could it?
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Weecly Update 1
If so minded, you can follow the official outpourings of WEEC 8 on Twitter: @WEEC2015 – but you really should be outside. Here are a few of the highlights so far (and my indented comments ...) Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson talks about...
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Introducing, momentarily, the 'Amazon Second'
Amazon, in addition to selling stuff, is now in the time-shifting business. From 1200 today, 30th June, to 1200 on 1 July, the universal second, according to Amazon, will be slightly longer than seconds everywhere else. This is because of the...
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Another WEEC, another two conferences
Three conferences in one WEEC – and what to do? There's WEEC 8 in Göteborg at the start of the weec, but enough's been said for now about that. Then there's the National Sustainable Schools conference in Bristol, and the International Outdoor...
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On Care for Our Common Home
This is my first comment on the Pope's encyclical: On Care for Our Common Home. In a sense, it is much too soon to prejudge it. I have, however, been impressed by the range of commentators. There's George Monbiot, writing in...
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More on GM and that Panorama programme
I feel, in that sense of balance that seizes me now and again, to refer you to Guy Watson, an organic farmer, who has written an article for the Telegraph's Food 'n' Drink page. Its focus is the BBC Panorama programme on GM that...
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More about UNESCO's forthcoming GCE Decade
I wrote the other day about UNESCO's latest enthusiasm: Global Citizenship Education [ GCE ]. I've read the report: tedious stuff, mostly; full of long lists of things like: 1. Key Learner Attributes Informed and critically literate Know about local, national and...
