The Purpose and Future of the European Union

During the course of the last few weeks, Time Magazine has published a series of interesting articles commenting on the purpose and future of the European Union. If nothing else, the articles do serve to give the reader an insight into how pro-Europeans and Eurosceptics tend to view the European Union. If one is seeking to [...]

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Sustainable Energy – without the hot air!

‘Sustainable Energy – without the hot air’ is a free book, written by Professor David MacKay, that seeks to help build a realistic and constructive consensus about how society can best meet its energy needs. If you want to gain an insight into the book then watch the video clip below. If you want to read the book itself, [...]

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MyStudyBar

‘MyStudyBar is free to download and is designed to help overcome problems that students commonly experience with studying, reading and writing. The tool consists of a set of portable open source and freeware applications, assembled into one convenient package [...]  MyStudyBar provides comprehensive learning support at the desktop, where it is needed. So, if you are interested, [...]

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Toxic Fuels

‘Oil derived from tar sands is the most climate hostile fuel in production. If fully exploited, tar sand alone would take us to the brink of runaway climate change and trigger a local environmental disaster’. ‘Toxic Fuels’ is a series of three films about tar sands and will be in cinemas this spring. If you [...]

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World Water Day

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded [...]

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The Impacts of Dams

I have just finished reading a journal paper on the impacts of dams and how their environmental impacts can be managed, and thought you might also be interested in reading the paper. It is well established that dams have far reaching social and economic consequences, but the paper by McCartney priovides an extremely insightful review [...]

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#loveHE!

‘Initiated by Times Higher Education, the campaign is an all-embracing and unashamed way to champion higher education in all its multifaceted glory, from inside and outside the sector’. ‘…we should all celebrate the sector at a time when it may not be as high on the list of public priorities as it should be. Launched [...]

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Is the easy option always the best option?

In a recent edition of the Times Higher Education there is an article entitled ‘Students swear by module of obscenely hard work’. In the article, Professor Martin promises his students that if  ‘they work obscenely hard then he will work obscenely hard, too’.  While one might want to avoid elements of ‘public humiliation’, I found [...]

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Black Gold

‘As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man’s fight for a fair price’. This is a great documentary film, particularly if you want to learn more about the trade of a [...]

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