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A WEEC is a long time in Abu Dhabi
I see that WEEC is following in FIFA's footsteps by holding its next global extravaganza in the Gulf. WEEC 2024 – the 12th congress – will be in Abu Dhabi over 5 days next January / February. The organisers say...
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Careful Crime, Heat Pumps, Net Zero and German Cars
Back in 2018, a survey of 2,143 people by YouGov revealed that 27% of them admit to “careful littering” such as leaving drinks cans or coffee cups on window ledges rather than on the ground as usual. A campaign was duly launched...
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Everything is more costly when rushed
Rory Sutherland's 'must read' Spectator column this week quoted some "excellent thinking" from the Italian complexity theorist Luca Dellanna: Two days ago, the EU parliament approved a ban on new fossil fuel cars starting in 2035. While I like the...
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New UK Energy Policy announced
The government announced today that access to energy within the UK would be rationed from the beginning of May. The Hon Dr Alex Blair-McPherson-Ali (she/him/they/etc), a spokesperson for the newly created Ministry for Using LEss Stuff – MULES [1] –...
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The big fib at the heart of Ofsted
I've been following the awful story of the primary school headteacher who killed herself after an inexplicable top to bottom down-grading from Ofsted. I say inexplicable because how can the leadership of a school be inadequate when every other grade is...
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20 Questions
I've bought a "vegan nail brush" from a "leading British lifestyle brand" made with "pure cactus bristle" – Agave sisalana – from Mexico with a FSC birch base. The alternative was plastic so I took the plunge. It's very nice. But, given...
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A Mis-placed Wildlife Message
For a change, I watched a nature programme on TV: the new David Attenborough series, Wild Isles. It was as spectacular as promised, although I failed to see any coherence to it. We flitted from video of life and death struggles:...
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Net Zero and Progressive Politics
A friend reckons that green policies are about to be rumbled and the time is coming when the public, or perhaps a particularly well-connected, noisy part of it, will "rise up" and be counted. He's not some Marxist shrill, just...
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2030 and All That
I watched Jonathan Ashworth MP on Channel 4 trying in vain to answer a question about how a new Labour government would manage to generate 100% of electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030. It is fair to say he struggled....
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Drought and Flood
This has been the driest February for 30 years and the 8th driest since 1836. According to the National Drought Group, England is only one hot dry spell away from widespread drought conditions. Clearly action is needed. So, surely what...
