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Who really thinks that environmental education will save us?
A wise academic once said to me that you're quids in if you've got some data; that is, if you've done some proper research. The problem with being retired from research is that you don't have data any more and...
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When was there a golden age of environmental education?
Taking this idea seriously for a minute, and only for the UK, a number of possibilities suggest themselves, and I am ignoring all pre-1960 initiatives that many, including Keith Wheeler in 1975 in Insights into Environmental Education, wrote about ... – the...
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A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell's paper: Deep Adaptation (A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy) is challenging stuff. This is the Abstract: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of an...
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Social Immobility
The following is an extract from Jenni Russell's Times column of October 25th. "This summer the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a global survey of inequality, detailing how hard it is for individuals to escape their backgrounds....
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Hidden tribes
Niall Fergusson wrote in The Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago about Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarised Landscape, saying that it offers a new political typology that divides Americans into seven political categories: 1 Progressive activists: younger, highly engaged, secular,...
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Connecting Classrooms for Environmental (and other) Learning
Last week's News Round-up from NAEE had a feature on the new Connecting Classrooms for Global Learning programme which has now been launched. The details are here and their website says: “The new Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme supports schools internationally to...
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Loose language from WWF
I've been reading the 2018 Living Planet Index, something best read in daylight. I was alerted to it by a headline and link in Climate Action. The headline was: 60% of wildlife has been wiped out by humans since 1970, WWF finds...
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The global temperature average
I went to listen to Phil Jones from the Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia the other afternoon at an I-SEE seminar. His title was: ‘The global temperature average: a history, recent changes and their context over the Late Holocene’ and this...
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Blinkered resistance to gene editing
This is a Times leader from a couple of weeks ago. I'm reprinting it because I agree with it. These points were made in The World we'll Leave Behind. Europe’s blinkered resistance to gene editing is a blow to good science...
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More on that pledge
I wrote ta while back about the GEEP pledge that I signed. I was happy to do that as I want to support GEEP. And yet, I have a reservation about the argument GEEP uses [*]. The pledge letter says:...
