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  • Forget the Premier League ...

    ... the new tables from People & Planet are much more colourful. I see that the usual suspects have done reasonably well again, and that many of those that do well in everything else, have all done equally badly.  My...

  • Riding along in my automobile, ...

    Sadly, it was only along the M4, and Chuck Berry wasn't there singing along, but I saw something I'd not seen before - the iconic wind turbine at the Reading business park was silent, hanging limply in the still, cold...

  • Green Capital – Student Capital: unleashing the power of Bristol Students to benefit the UK

    Bristol is the 2015 European Green Capital, and its universities have come together with a promise to make "positive and sustainable environmental changes" during 2015.  This project has been made possible by generous tax-payer funding of £249,734 c/o the Higher Education Funding Council for England...

  • Eating away at our life support systems

    The Guardian has reported on two recent research studies that it says: "... have pinpointed the key factors that ensure a livable planet for humans, with stark results.  Of nine worldwide processes that underpin life on Earth, four have exceeded...

  • No wealth but life

    I usually avoid discussions about the 'global population problem' of the 'something must be done before it's too late' variety because there are usually no sensible policy options on offer – save ' more education' and/or 'more economic growth'.  Rarely does anyone dare...

  • DfID to send emergency aid cash to Saudi Arabia

    As world-wide condemnation grows of the sentence of 10 years in jail, a fine of 1m riyals (~£175k), and 1000 lashes on blogger, Raif Badawi, DfID announced emergency development aid to Saudi Arabia yesterday following an historic agreement with the...

  • Watch out; 2015 is the European Year for Development

    Just when you thought you had survived the ESD decade, it turns out that 2015 is the European Year for Development [EYD2015].  Think Global, is happy about this.  Its CEO noted in TG's first January mailing: "The first 'European Year' on EU external policy...

  • Energy from Waste? It's a good thing – just don't mention the 'I' word

    In times past, this used to be called incineration, and the mood of the nation was against it as fear of toxic materials trucked in by night, and dioxins produced by day, stalked the land.  Although it's now called energy from...

  • Open Country – Better Lives

    BBC Radio 4's "Open Country" last week was all about the work that Wiltshire Wildlife Trust does around human wellbeing.  It was a rather inspiring 25 minutes.  You can find it here. The Trust has been running its wellbeing programme since 2008,...

  • Ofsted – just gimme some truth

    It has long been a core claim by Ofsted that all its inspection judgements have very high inter-rater reliability; that is, an outcome would be the same no matter which inspection team pitched up to a school (or wherever) on the day.  Another,...