Environmental decision making books

Trawling through Amazon to find books on environmental decision making I might have missed, I noticed this one came in at number 6. Not exactly a user friendly description but a move in the right direction...and according to the record there's one left! :)

Emissions awareness

So nearly three out of four motorists don't know how much Co2 their cars emit, according to this article in the Independent. I'm surprised one out of four do - it's a bit like being able to reel off the details of how much gas and electric your household consumes rather than how much the bill comes to. Fuel consumption - yes, engine size - yes.....but perhaps like most of the British public, I've never owned a new car, when specifications are very much on show so it's in second hand markets that these details need to be available?

Wrest Park in July

Definitely a good day for Wrest Park today. Lovely to sit in the peaceful shade of its wonderful trees on this hot and humid July day.

Harvest

The year marches on. We hand over our Environmental Responsibility book at the end of the month to the publishers so a lot to do over the next few days. I'm conscious as I'm sitting at my computer of combines harvesting nearby fields well into the night. We've watched the crops grow from seed. I find harvest time quite exciting - the general transformation captured by this sort of site I think, rather than just the excitment of the big machines, though the activity is all part of it. Interesting to take a look at how some of the farming community views this time and at some of the Farmers Weekly site's blogs.

Government response to Environmental Education petition

The National Association for Environmental Education (NAEE) started a petition this Spring to put environmental education at the heart of the UK schools curriculum. A lot of people signed and we now have a response. Interestingly a decade ago is now thought of as something of a golden age in environmental education whereas there seems just as much if not more need today. Environment's in today's curriculum but not as much in the fore of some areas as it needs to be. Seems a contradiction of some of the statements coming from Government. I look forward to hearing about the promised 'sharper focus on sustainable development' from September 2008.

80 ways to celebrate World Environment Day

Today's World Environment Day - allegedly one of the UN's "principal vehicles for stimulating worldwide awareness of the environment and enhancing political attention and action. " They've identified 80 ways to celebrate and with my work hat on I note "Xpect environmental responsibility" is one of them. This year New Zealand have hosted the main celebrations, in partnership with UNEP.

The Great Glasshouse

It wasn't the brightest of days for our visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales last Monday but we were passing and it was still very worthwhile. Norman Foster's 'raindrop' , the largest single span glasshouse in Europe, was impressive in its design, the interior design of 'the Great Glasshouse' was done by Gustafson Porter. Filled with mediterranean plants, on a cool rainy day it was a lovely place to be.