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Slipping into Schengen
When we arrived in Germany to be with Mrs M the plane decanted us at a Schengen gate and so we were able to enter the country without a passport check – the first time since the EU opened its...
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Standing on the brink of a transport collapse
These are not my words, and oddly do not relate to the UK. "Germany is standing on the brink of a transport collapse,” Oliver Luksic, an MP and infrastructure expert for the liberal German Free Democrat party, was quoted by...
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The lifecycle of a supermarket bag policy
I wrote recently about the dismal failure of the much-vaunted plastic bag policy that the government forced on supermarkets, noting research which showed that people were using so-called bags for life in much the same way as the thinner alternatives...
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Out of classroom environmental learning in 2004
For those of you keen to see how much progress we've made over recent years, here is the 2004 submission made by the Council for Environmental Education to the Select Committee on Education and Skills in their 2004 enquiry into out...
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78% and rising
I see that 78% of graduates from UK universities now get Firsts or 2.i degrees. But are we supposed to celebrate this mark of undoubted excellence or fret over obvious grade inflation? This is a glass half-full or half-empty...
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Canis Lupus Bildung
Whilst visiting Mrs M's Earthly Paradise earlier this month, we went to the Schloss Adler (not that one), had a 1970s lunch and saw some grey wolves. These fine, though pitiable, creatures were fenced in around the castle and were...
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Have you installed a dim meter?
The UK government has a policy that electricity suppliers should persuade households to install smart(ish) meters to monitor their electricity supply. It also has a policy that householders should switch suppliers to get better deals. Up to now, some 2.8...
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Local climate debate
My local independent free newspaper – the MIN – is actually quite good. It carries lots of stories (most of them positive) about local activities and paints a fine picture of town and village life. It's view on Wiltshire Council...
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Listening to an environmental economics guru
This is what I did just before Christmas at the last I-SEE seminar of 2018 in Bath when Anil Markandya (Director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change in the Basque Country) talked about the relationship between the costs of climate mitigation...
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What discount rate should we use with climate change?
How's this for a succinct summary of the dilemma of our time: "Climate change is many problems in one. Developing and deploying zero-carbon technologies is a formidable challenge. So is the politics of co-ordinating disparate groups to achieve the necessary...
