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  • At last: a good news story ...

    The Telegraph reports today that carbon emissions look set to delay (and probably avert) the next ice age which is just the sort of new year message we all need.  A considerable bonus will be that it will also mean...

  • Ask not what your university can do for you

    Arjen Wals' blog today has an existential cry about appropriate university courses if you're of a sustainability mindset: Today I received an interesting new years message from Rolf Jucker from the CoDes project: Dear All I hope you have had a...

  • Nothing said is to be construed as implying ...

    I have been re-reading (after quite a gap) a still rather stimulating HMI curriculum working paper on environmental education from June 1979 – about which much more later.  The following text is by way of preface to the document: This publication...

  • Recent Defra research

    I'm grateful to the NUS's Jamie Agombar for pointing me towards recent Defra-sponsored research on behaviour.  One of these studies focused on moments of change. This research project explored whether ‘moments of change’ – times in a person’s life where existing...

  • Knitting yarns

    The city of Bath, it seems, has a new phenomenon: knitting snoods for chickens. I am told that, such is the concern for those birds newly-freed from the thankfully now-outlawed battery cages, and adopted by caring folk with back yards,...

  • In praise of blogs

    Happy New Year. This week's Economist carries a blog [ A less dismal debate ] on the positive influence of blogs.  Amongst the things it says are: ... whatever you think about the impact of blogging on political, scientific or...

  • Global warming may be irreversible by 2006

    This is not an example of my rather tardy New Year predictions, but the title of a recent article in the Onion – and thanks to Alan Reid for pointing it out as I've not been keeping up with the...

  • 0.679

    0.679 (don’t you just love this precision) is Environmental Education Research’s impact factor in the education & educational research category of the Social Science Citation index which gives it a ranking of 88/184 – not bad for a new-comer, and...

  • Double science

    I watched both Brian Cox and Bruce Hood on BBC 4 last night, with the promise of the best double science lesson for many years, if not ever.   As usual in these programmes, Cox flew round the world to...

  • ESD is ...

    Just what, exactly?  Well, I read a comment recently that ... ESD is education that addresses the inter-relatedness of social justice, ecological integrity and economics Oh, how I wish it did, but the sort of ESD that I usually come across...