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Banned from Blogging
This is the fate of the LSE's Satoshi Kanazawa, reader in the university's department of management, who has been barred from publishing "in non-peer-reviewed outlets", as the LSE puts it. Wow. For the lurid details of his malfeasance, see the...
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Put out more (Green) Flags
UnTidy Britain is looking for additional judges for its Eco-schools top award – the green flag – because of the expansion of the scheme. Its website says: Judges ensure that the standards the Award sets are high, but fair....
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Brush up your Interviewing
Even if you're not particularly interested in journalistic ethics (even if you know you should be), if you're a jobbing academic who does a bit of interviewing, the recent Bagehot column in the Economist is well worth a read (as are...
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Planning for what People Value
A thoughtful piece in today's Telegraph from the RSPB's acting head of sustainable development, Simon Marsh, who was one of 4 individuals asked by government to create a draft of the new proposed planning bill. His insights into that process,...
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Dark Matter in Bradford and Westminster
To Bradford for an Ellen MacArthur Foundation session at the British Science Festival. One refreshing thing about the EMF is its steadfast refusal to use words and concepts like eco / sustainable / green – largely on the grounds that...
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Sean McB Carson
I have been reading Environmental Education: principles and practice, published by Edward Arnold in 1978, and edited by Sean McBirney Carson. Odd, you might think, given its venerable 33 years ageing on my bookshelves, but I delved into it for...
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Revisiting Hadow
Yesterday found me reading about the Hadow report after a goodly few years. I remember it was an important part of my teacher training in the heady early 1970s, and then had a prominent mention in the PGCE programme I...
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Not Going Down to Rio
I wasn't going to go to the 2012 UN Jamboree in Rio anyway, as my personal carbon budget will not bear the cost. However, had I been looking for an additional reason (other than avoiding the existential horror of yet...
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Making schools fit to face the 21st century
Last Sunday, The Observer asked how can we make our schools fit for the 21st Century, which is a question that many of those of us who are interested in sustainability are asking all the time. It did this by...
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Walking in a Cultural Landscape
I had to go to Sweden in the 1980s to hear the phrase "cultural landscape" and to listen to discussions about its evolution through time and human social and economic practice. Then, the concept seemed almost second nature to my...
