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Sustaining our Future – maybe
The Learning & Skills Improvement Service has just published a new draft of its paper: Sustaining our Future: a framework for moving towards a sustainable learning and skills sector This begins: The learning and skills sector is increasingly aware of...
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An Original Day Out at Duchy Farm
To Duchy Farm yesterday at the invitation of the Food for Life Programme [FFLP]. I think this may have been because I'd had a hand in drafting the Programme's response to the recent National Curriculum consultation – a very interesting...
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Mississippi God Dam
The US Army Corps of Engineers has been playing God again. It decided to flood around 130000 acres of farmland rather than let an historic town, Cairo, Illinois, be inundated by the Mississippi. It did this by busting a hole...
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That almost perfect job – in Paris with no income tax
Unesco is advertising five managerial positions in its education sector. One of these is Chief, Section of Education for Sustainable Development Reading the advert (in a disinterested fashion, I should say), it seems that the post is more about DRR than...
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New Patron, anyone?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the new Duchess of Cambridge were found to have a closet interest in the environment? Well, NGOs in need of a Patron take note: Kate Middleton has a keen appreciation of the natural world...
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William, Kate, and those Welsh Fish
Well, eventually I managed to find an environmental angle to the wedding. It seems that the use of Welsh gold for the wedding rings might (just might!) pose a threat to trout and salmon spawning. As TIME notes: Conservationists and...
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The Web of Hope
I've written two blogs now for the Web of Hope. The latest, about to appear, is about teaching – the idea that we are all teachers now whether we like, or know, it or not. We teach through our...
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I, being Born a Sinner and Distressed, ...
If you've been a sinner but have now seen the light, there's nothing like a public confession to let the world know of your repentance, and to show off your shiny new anti-whatever-it-was credentials and zeal. St. Paul has a...
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Hobson's choice: Osteoporosis – a Cat's home – and Friends of the Climate
Shopping in Waitrose today (I know!), I was, as usual, faced with deciding which local charity to support with my solitary little green token. The choice was between a local osteoporosis support group, a cat's home (actually: Kat's), and the...
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Globaloney
The most recent Schumpeter column in The Economist discussed a recent book: World 3.0: global prosperity and how to achieve it. The column's headline is: The case against globaloney: at last some sense on globalisation, which gives the reader a sense...
