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Composting is its own reward
Jonathon Porritt tried hard to prioritise questions from young people at his seminar last week, but age muscled in, with some self-declaring as young and others saying they'd brought a young person with them and so it was o for...
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Carbon sinning
I'd just finished yet another Skype meeting when I noticed the article in the Huff Post on academic airmiles: The Climate Change Hypocrisy Of Jet-Setting Academics. There wasn't much new in this about the problem of academics (and others) jet-setting around...
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Reading Kate Marvel
As if Facebook weren't enough, Jonathon Poritt's seminar last week was gloom leavened with a little bit of hope. He asked us, in relation to averting the coming climate apocalypse, where we were on a 0 totally pessimistic to 10 wholly...
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Porritt and Facebook – a night to remember
Last Tuesday evening, I spend three hours watching drama. First, there was Jonathon Porritt's I-SEE seminar in Bath, and then there was Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before a sprawling Senate mega-committee at the US Capitol. They were, of course, differently dramatic....
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It's the gas, stupid
I often refer to being Quartered Safely in Wiltshire, partly this is in homage to George MacDonald Fraser; partly it is because it feels a safe place to be despite sheep rustling, quad bike thefts, traveller slave gangs, and the...
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UNESCO helps me remember the 1990s
More from UNESCO's Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development [A. Leicht, J. Heiss and W. J. Byun (eds)]. As I omitted to say when I last commented on this book, this is not a 'keep-you-awake-at-night' stuff. But there are things...
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UNESCO downgrades geoscience
I've now had time to read UNESCO's Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development [A. Leicht, J. Heiss and W. J. Byun (eds)]. Chapter 10, Monitoring ESD: lessons learned and ways forward by Ashley Stepney Lockhart (pps. 215 – 232) stood out for me, particularly...
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Jonathon Porritt at Bath
Jonothon Porritt will be giving an I-SEE seminar at Bath on ‘Exploring the Psychodrama of Accelerating Climate Change’ on April 10th – tomorrow. Details here. Here's his Abstract: The evidence about climate change keeps on getting worse – confirmed both by ever...
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Re-wilder dreams take a knock
The Prince of Wales' website has a feature on HRH's March 26th trip to unveil a plaque on the shore of Derwentwater marking the [newish] UNESCO cultural world heritage site – the Lake District. Details here. It includes this: "There...
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The missing Swindale sheep
There's a fine RSPB video about their work with United Utilities in a small Lake District valley, Swindale [the vale of the pig]. Here's Rory Stewart's description of Swindale: "Swindale has always felt like a hidden miracle – a tight-necked...
