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A pity all those neutrinos go to waste
Power output from Semington A has been fluctuating wildly lately over the last month. A gloriously sunny Sunday resulted in 18.1 kWHrs whereas a foggy Monday gave rise to only 4.2. This was almost exactly the same 2 weeks ago...
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21 : 21 Foresight
Every two years, the UNEP Foresight Process produces what is says is a "careful and authoritative ranking" of the most important emerging issues related to the global environment, in order to inform the UN and wider international community, as well...
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Albert Bartlet, aluminium cans, and recycling myths
I've been re-watching the redoubtable Albert Bartlet on You Tube. AB says that it's really important that everyone understand the exponential function – and, of course, it is. But, given that a vast range of people seem to struggle with...
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Salute the non-conformist 2%
Eco-Schools Scotland reports that 98% of local authority schools have now joined the movement. Given that the Holyrood administration sees Eco-schools as a vector for its policies, and has told schools to sign up, this is no surprise, perhaps. Or...
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More frequent flier points anyone?
As is drearily predictable, the BBC's much trailed new Earth science programme – Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey – turned out to be another excuse for collecting air miles and for presenters to have fun. For once, however, Brian Cox missed...
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It's a brave school ...
It's a brave school that posts a Ken Robinson RSAnimate video on its website, but this is what Montgomery school in Devon has done. And the school isn't backward about coming forward: Welcome to Montgomery Primary School, the first Zero...
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More on the proposed revisions to England's national curriculum
As I have noted already, the expert panel set up by government to think about revisions to the national curriculum, has proposed that one of the high-level curriculum aim statement is this … The school curriculum should develop pupils’ knowledge, understanding,...
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Keep Scotland beautiful – but let's hear more about it
Keep Scotland Beautiful sports a number of blogs which were established back in September 2011 in an obvious fit of enthusiasm for new-ish media. One of these is that rare species, the environmental education blog. This is written by...
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iTunes for ESD
It's wonderful what you can find on iTunes these days, but to come across a whole lot of stuff on ESD some may think rather unexpected. Not so, however, just click here to find 81 (at today's count) outputs from Education...
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Sustainability megaforces – but not quite the usual suspects
KPMG have published a report on the sustainability megaforces will “impact each and every business over the next 20 years" – and the rest of us, no doubt. Ten are cited: Climate Change Energy & fuel Material resource scarcity Water...
