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Climate Anxiety 101
Eco-anxiety has been described as a source of stress when people watch "the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of climate change unfold, and worrying about the future for oneself, children, and later generations… affected by feelings of loss, helplessness, and...
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The Journal of Referee Reports
I see that Nature (a Springer journal) is opening up the mysteries of the peer-review process. See this report in the THE. About time, many say. Hang on a bit, others respond. Dr Ritu Dhand, vice-president at Nature Journals, told the THE that...
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Zoos – part 6
Regular readers will know that I don't like zoos. I include so-called safari parks. I regard them as little better than prisons for other species where humans go to gawp just as our ancestors in less enlightened times used to...
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Disgrace down under
It seems bad form to kick a country when it's down, but the Australian government is a disgrace. Its prime minister claims that that it will “meet and beat” its greenhouse-gas emissions reduction goals, but that seems fanciful, even though the...
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Happy Birthday LEEF
Despite the difficulties of train travel, it was a real pleasure to attend a 30th anniversary meeting of LEEF (London Environmental Educators' Forum) on Monday at the London Natural History Museum. This was a well-attended, well-organised event with a theme...
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My LEEF conference responses
As I noted on Thursday last, the text in bold on this page are the questions that the panel at the LEEF conference will be responding to. I've set out here what I'll try to remember to say, although I...
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LEEF Conference questions
I’ll be on a panel at the LEEF conference on Monday. Here are some of the questions we’ll be responding to. I wonder what you would say? 1. If you had to nominate a couple of environmental education "giants" in...
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Education for sustainability in New Zealand
Thanks to Jess Tipton for alerting me to the section of the New Zealand government website that focuses on "education for sustainability". This is how it begins: Education for sustainability "Sustainability is a critical issue for New Zealand – environmentally,...
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Are our gestures on climate change empty ones?
Empty Gestures on Climate Change is an article by Bjorn Lomborg. You'll find it here. The gist of his argument is found in the next paragraph: "Switch to energy-efficient light bulbs, wash your clothes in cold water, eat less meat,...
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Can Tomlinson replace GCSEs?
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders [ @RealGeoffBarton ] thinks so. What follows is the beginning of his article in the TES late last year: "In Bristol this week, at the annual conference of...
