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Less than a WEEC to go
I wrote a while back about the best conference I have ever attended as far as keynote addresses were concerned. There were 3 stunning ones. I won't repeat any of the detail – but it's here. Most of the rest have...
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Another Unesco report – another acronym – another decade?
UNESCO has published a new report: Global Citizenship Education: Topics and learning objectives. This promotion of GCE begins: This publication ... is the first pedagogical guidance from UNESCO on global citizenship education. It is the result of an extensive research and consultation process...
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Walking the walk
Those readers concerned that business is not taking climate change seriously enough might find some (probably small) encouragement from an article [ Walking the walk ] in the Economist which looks at European business and climate change. It begins: "SIX big...
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Paris UN conference text update
I noted back in February that UN negotiators had produced "an early draft" of the text for the climate deal in Paris next December. Their initial text had been 38 pages long, but negotiators managed to whittle it down to 86 pages to make...
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The Environmental Curriculum
A new guide highlights the environment in England's school curriculum. In it, the National Association for Environmental Education [NAEE] asks: How can teachers respond to the challenge of teaching about pollution, endangered species, deforestation, climate change, and other environmental issues? The Association has looked at the opportunities that...
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Sun, Sun, Everywhere, but ...
I wrote back in May about the growth of renewables in electricity generation. It was a positive picture. Today's post is a somewhat more sober one. A recent BP report says that world-wide solar energy generation grew by 38% last...
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Only two WEECs to go
Are you looking forward to WEEC at the end of June? The programme says that there are 23 keynote speakers. "23!", I thought, "that's over 7 a day; hardly time for lunch. Who's going to eat all that herring?" I need not have...
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What's the collective noun for zoos?
I wondered about this as I was browsing the recent flush of 'zoos are a problem – but we love them' stories in the media. According to Wiktionary, there isn't such a term – yet. But I think that NAEE might just have...
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The Moth Snowstorm
The publisher's blurb for Michael McCarthy's new book, The Moth Snowstorm: nature and joy, begins like this: Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural...
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How GM do you feel today?
The Economist recently ran a story under the headline: Genetically Modified People. The graphic was itself appropriately graphic. The point of the piece was that human beings’ ancestors routinely absorbed genes from other species. The article began: OPPONENTS of genetically modified crops often...
