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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...
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The Cat in the Mach
With apologies to Dr Seuss who probably never went to either Machynlleth (Mach) or the Centre for Alternative Technology (the Cat) even when its technology was actually alternative as opposed to pretty mainstream. I enjoyed my visit to the Cat...
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The Welsh Marches
It took six and a half hours to reach Machynlleth and the CAT, and part of this journey was through a gloriously autumnal landscape from Y Fenni to beyond Ludlow where Caer Caradoc slipped into the darkness. This is the...
