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NAAEE Research Symposium 2020
I attended the NAAEE research symposium this week (9th to 10th October). It's years since I've been and I was happy to be there by virtue of the internet. It cost me $100 which is a bargain compared to conventional...
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David Hume, new Corn Laws and BP
The National Library of Scotland has announced that it will be addressing the “silences" in its collection by placing place people such as David Hume, Adam Smith and Robert Burns, in the “context” of their day. John Scally, the national librarian,...
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Wordsworth's weak link to the East India Company
I wrote last week about the National Trust's Interim Report on the Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust, Including Links with Historic Slavery. Subsequent to this, I wrote to the Trust about this passage...
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Who's to replace Sir David?
I know it's an indecent question as the poor man's not dead yet, but the race has been on for a while now to find the new David Attenborough. The BBC 's quite desperate about this and has come up...
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Participating in environmental education conferences
Researchers are conducting a survey about national and international participation in environmental education conferences, to examine what barriers to participation exist for environmental education society members. I dutifully completed it, even though I've no intention of ever again flying to...
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Argument-based evidence from the National Trust
I've been reading the National Trust's long account of how its estate is mired in historic slavery and colonial exploitation. Informative, but somewhat tendentious I felt. Any large house that was occupied in the long 18th Century and up to...
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Numbers of the week
750,000,000 – the annual investment (in US$) in wind and solar capacity thought to be needed to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees 264,000,000 – the amount in US$ that the EU claims it will spend on climate measures...
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Moral condescension, David Hume, snow in Denver, and a Rossby wave of books
The very late, very great David Hume has had a mixed time of it recently; his name was disassociated from an undistinguished 1960s building in Edinburgh, but this only happened because the University of Edinburgh gave in to the moral...
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The XR revolution consumes itself
I wrote back in early September about Extinction Rebellion's growing troubles as the movement (or was it only a moment?) suffered from the inevitable internal wrangling as the cadres sought to claim the moral high ground for their own brand...
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Leave it to Jesus
Over the Summer, I was sent a series of articles on global heating on jw.org – the Jehovah's Witnesses website. Surprisingly balanced, I thought, (apart from the conclusion that is) given what I suspected might actually be the case. The...
