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Measuring global whatever it is
This is the latest from Think Global's Chief Executive, promoting a Members’ Lunch and AGM on November 6th (1230 ...) "I’m really pleased to say that our [AGM] guest speakers will be Newman Burdett, Head of Centre for International Comparisons, and...
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People and Planet accepts a generous offer from EAUC / AUDE
Those smart folk at People & Planet have agreed with a suggestion from EAUC and AUDE that data should be collected by EAUC / AUDE for use in post-2014 green league tables. How many micro-seconds did it take P&P to decide to accept, I wonder, and could...
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Let's hear it for the Ebola virus
I wrote recently about a dire presentation at the recent ECER conference where ESD was taken to task for being overly-anthropocentric. The speaker, Helen Kopnina of the University of Amsterdam and the Hague University of Applied Science, spoke up for...
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Cheap at half the price
The Plymouth Herald – essential reading, I find – recently reported that the city's University had splashed out a sum not unadjacent to £150k on 7 Chairs. "Gosh", that's cheap, I thought. I know professors are poorly paid, but really,...
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Fairness and Physics
Peter Harper, variously of the Centre for Alternative Technology, Schumacher College, and the University of Bath is presenting a lecture tonight at BRLSI on Energy: Fairness, Physics and Sustainability. This is the blurb: The atmosphere is a shared resource. Therefore the...
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The most terrifying video you'll ever see
This is how this YouTube clip is introduced. Really, I thought – has no one seen this YouTube gem which I defy anyone to watch without reaching for the valium. No matter how often I watch the "most terrifying" YouTube video, it just...
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What is ESD? And why is it important to your students?
This is the title of a paper that Paul Vare and I have written for the Teachers: Agents of Change project, funded by the EU, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and the Czech Development Agency. This...
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Nimbyism is taken to new heights in Wiltshire
Wiltshire has an explorer – David Hempleman-Adams – who seems to do most of his exploring out of the county. Hempleman-Adams has made an intervention into the local solar PV politics (ie, should Wiltshire Council encourage or discourage it?). The Council's policy is not to have...
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There but for the grace ...
... of ?? Well, you can complete the sentence for yourself, but my money's on the last two lines of Hilaire Belloc's 'Jim' (one of his cautionary tales for children) which were never far from the surface of things, even if...
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Intangible Cultural Heritage? Let's grab it with both hands
On Saturday, there's a conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures. It's at the Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay. It's about time. The 2003 UNESCO Convention defines Intangible Cultural Heritage...
