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Managing sustainability?
I'm jus returned from Slovenia where I gave a keynote at the 12th Management International Conference, MIC, in Portorož. The title of the conference was Managing Sustainability?, and I was asked, in particular, to talk about the ? in the title...
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... nor hell a fury like an academic scorned
Next Easter, classics Professor, Edith Hall, is moving across London, from Royal Holloway to King's in a move prompted, we're told, by her present university's reaction to funding changes. The Observer, today, carried some detail of the ins and outs...
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Compensation please – we’ve far too much oil
Saudi Arabia is one of two countries that have declined to endorse a report on the Green Climate Fund, one of the few ideas, you'll recall, that was spawned in 2009 in the UN meeting that became known as Nopenhagen....
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Rachel Carson: a child's world
Now and then, I come across fragments of text which resonate. Maybe it's the thought of my grandchildren that provokes this: A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that...
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Lost Graduate Found
Now that Saif al-Islam has been found skulking in the desert, maybe the LSE will be able to get its PhD back. Celebrations all round.
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The Isle of ... Green
The Economist carries a short piece this week on well-connected efforts to make the Isle of Wight self-sufficient in just about everything: the Isle of Green. However, as an irregular traveller on the Red Jet service from Southampton to Cowes,...
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20 questions in the woods
A good day at the Hampshire Collegiate School on Friday, opening their splendid new learning outside the classroom facilities. What a wonderful setting for the addition of a building that is not only nicely designed and constructed (by their own...
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Philip Neal
It's with sadness that I note the death of Philip Neal last Tuesday night; November 15th. Anyone who knows anything about the development of environmental education in the UK will understand the contribution that Philip made over many years, and in...
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Video contrasts
I watched two videos yesterday. The first was the latest communications output from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation; the second a promotional video from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust in anticipation of its 50th year celebrations in 2012. Regular readers will know...
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Listening to Architects
I had the rare privilege on Friday of listening to UK and US architects talking together about school design with sustainability in mind – not that the US folk talk about sustainability or carbon reduction all that much, not when...
