Earlier today I traveled to Dolebury Warren in North Somerset with Bristol University Conservation Group. The purpose of the trip (the group’s final trip of the academic year) was to rebuild a section of wall to provide habitat for various plants and invertebrate species as well as create a new boundary wall for an incomingContinueContinue reading “Dry Stone Walling – the world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle”
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The biodiversity challenge in Europe
Yesterday evening I attended the 43rd Annual Bristol University Alumni Convocation Lecture. The subject chosen was something of great interest to me personally, ‘Biodiversity in Europe’, delivered by Dr Hans Friedrich, who only recently left his post as the European Regional Director of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Dr Friedrich, a Dutch geographerContinueContinue reading “The biodiversity challenge in Europe”
Bees , Pesticides and Politicians
A week ago, all eyes in the European arable industry were on the European Commission as they decided whether or not to place a ban on neonicotinoids, the pesticide family thought to be influencing the decline in bee populations. In fact, in the end, only 15 member states voted for the ban on clothianidin, imidacloprid andContinueContinue reading “Bees , Pesticides and Politicians”
The Importance of interdisciplinarity, Cross-Disciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity in Education
When I began this blog a couple of months ago I set out my stance as a proponent of interdisciplinarity in education. I am a student of history although I am increasingly discovering that it is environmental history, and related areas, that specifically interests me. Environmental history, as a discipline, has grown to involve knowledgeContinueContinue reading “The Importance of interdisciplinarity, Cross-Disciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity in Education”
Margaret Thatcher: the Environmentalist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aSrBO4_qPzo Thatcher: the ‘Iron Lady’, ‘the first woman Prime-Minister’, ‘the discordant politician’. As I sit here watching the funeral of the first and, as yet, the only woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom I thought it would be interesting to look into her own environmental agenda. Margaret Thatcher was one of the most divisiveContinueContinue reading “Margaret Thatcher: the Environmentalist?”
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