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Sometimes, a comment is hardly needed ...
Last week, at a sustainable schools event, in a presentation, a teacher said: " When you get your third Green Flag, you've more or less reached sustainability." No, I thought: No, NO!
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Just something to pass the time ...
I experienced some development education the other day. It with the presenter saying "I like doing things" and that this was to be a "hands-on" session. We looked at bits of photos of India, putting them together, jig-saw like and...
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Low Marks for re-writing of Nursery Rhymes
As the Times and Telegraph have reported today, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that government adverts based on Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub make exaggerated claims about the threat to Britain from global warming, going farther than the scientific consensus...
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Environmental Learning
It was good to attend the launch of the new book by Mark Rickinson, Cecilia Lundholm and Nick Hopwood – and to be asked to say a few words. What a pleasure: such an interesting book, and so beautifully written....
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What must a conscientious teacher of climate change do?
I ask this because I've a session coming up on our PGCE course with climate change as its focus. One answer, of course, is to keep an eye on what the IPCC is itself saying – as opposed, perhaps, to...
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A great dilemma as Australian fireworks lead the way
The Sydney New Year Celebrations were as colourful (and over-the-top fabulous) as ever this (ie, last) year, and their bridge always seems to outdo our wheel as a framing for activity. If you missed them, you can have a look...
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If pester power is good enough for McDonald's, then it's ...
I overheard a conversation a while back about the use of young people to persuade their parents through targeted pester power to change their bad social-living habits. It struck me as odd to invoke McDonald's values to justify this rather...
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All together now children, let's frighten everybody...
Here's the opening video for the Copenhagen summit. Comment seems superfluous.
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It not only seems ok to eat Kenyan green beans, it seems right
Welcome news from Oxfam, whose new publication, Fair Miles: recharting the food miles map, explores the dilemma of whether it is ethically sound to eat fresh food shipped (air-freighted, more like) in from distant places. Many a glass of new...
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Children's (and other) Statements on Climate Change
On 26 November, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families received the Children's Statement on Climate Change from children at St Luke's primary school in Newham and promised to send it to UK delegates at the UN Climate Change...
