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Category Archives: The Environment
Should water drive the Lakes
A really interesting interview at United Utilities as part of my dissertation really got me thinking about the practical effects that a disconnection from nature can have in environmental policy. Having good quality, clean, drinking water running at will from … Continue reading
Posted in Lake District Project, The Environment
Tagged dissertation, Environment, Lake District, landscape, policy, water, water framework directive
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Being academic, and then getting better
Three days into my dissertation interviews and I was starting to feel like a proper academic. It wasn’t the interviews themselves, or spending hours writing them up. It wasn’t continually telling people that I was one, explaining my project and … Continue reading
Disconnect from nature…
I’ll probably never read as much as I am doing at the moment about one subject – a masters dissertation is a pretty rare opportunity to read a lot on a very specific topic. My topic – land use in … Continue reading
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Floods, wolves and political leadership
A busy few weeks back at Uni and much to think about and little time to write about it! Therefore in the absence of time to write a full blog I thought I would share a few links to things … Continue reading
Posted in Outdoor Adventures, The Environment, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, flooding, wolf reintroduction
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Failure and entrepreneurial environmental solutions
I attended a lecture this week by John Ashton, who spoke about political challenges in addressing climate change. He gave a quote I had not heard before and then asked how many of the attendees agreed… do you: “Conceived of … Continue reading
One to watch
At the fear of repeating myself, everyone should watch this… http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/ brilliant statistics, brilliantly communicated.
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Top 10 continued!
Here’s numbers 5 to 10 of my top ten facts, thoughts and meanderings: 5 – What to conserve and why – if the key to finding solutions is defining the problem, and a problem is the need to move from … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, environmental leadership, environmental policy, Monbiot
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Environmental Technology – Top 10
As the pace of the course picked up and my exams drew close the blog entries reduced and my attempts to share what I had learnt took a bit of a dip! So now, emerging from exams, Christmas and too … Continue reading
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Is the art of spin dead?
The Nature Check report published today sadly paints yet another picture of a government failing to meet its commitments, let alone its over arching claim to be the greenest government in history. The report rates the Government as failing in … Continue reading
Chilling images
Having just experienced 45 minutes of chilling images of man’s effects on the environment this one I found particularly striking. It is called ‘The Survival of the Fattest’ by Jens Galschiot and shows an overweight Lady Justice figure, representing the … Continue reading
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Dom Hall - Journeys with a Purpose 