{"id":7590,"date":"2019-11-08T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2019-11-08T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T08:48:00","slug":"the-eco-schools-coded-message-to-no-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/11\/08\/the-eco-schools-coded-message-to-no-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eco-Schools coded message to No. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<div class=\"\">I wrote the other day about how <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7588&amp;action=edit\">Eco-Schools UK<\/a> seems to have lost its way given that their work has no focus on the climate issues that are so consuming young people's thoughts and concerns.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Further evidence presented itself when they presented a petition to Downing Street. Their Twitter story was:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\"Today we presented our petition to <a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/10DowningStreet\">@10DowningStreet<\/a> asking for all schools in England to become Eco-Schools and to receive the support they need to achieve Green Flag success <a class=\"twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllSchoolsEcoSchools?src=hash\"><s>#<\/s>AllSchoolsEcoSchools<\/a>\u00a0\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let's be clear about this. \u00a0This is not too subtle code for the following:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\"<em>Dear Prime Minister, as Keep Britain Untidy has completely failed to persuade schools to sign up to the Eco-Schools scheme, please would you make it compulsory for all schools in England. \u00a0We'd also like you to stump up some public subsidy as well as we're a bit short of cash. \u00a0Thanks, in anticipation<\/em>,...\"<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was an odd day to choose to be in Downing Street, given the election and all that, but that's what they did. \u00a0I searched the Eco-Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eco-schools.org.uk\/inspiration\/news\/\">website<\/a> to find out what the petition actually said, but there's no detail. \u00a0Much worse, there's no mention of the petition. \u00a0They truly are in the dark up there in Wigan.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about how Eco-Schools UK seems to have lost its way given that their work has no focus on the climate issues that are so consuming young people's thoughts and concerns. Further evidence presented itself when...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}