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Of course it’s never quite that simple but … an essential truth is that the UK’s Labour Party lost the May General Election because it lost the support of Britain’s Prospectors.  Not all of them of course and Pioneers and … Continue reading →

A lot has been written about campaigning for divestment from fossil fuels (for background see these excellent articles by Fred Pearce and Mark Gunther both at www.e360.Yale.edu ) but in this blog I try to take a planner’s point of … Continue reading →

[This post has also been republished at The Ecologist] Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a tale of strange happenings on an enchanted isle. It begins with a storm conjured by the magic of Prospero. His sorcery brings his enemies to him, … Continue reading →

Does anyone know which is the greenest Church ? Is anyone measuring how renewable is the energy used by Churches themselves ?  Presumably Pope Francis would now be interested to know.  After all, an Encyclical is not much good if … Continue reading →

GUEST BLOG by Melanie Oxley.   A chance meeting with walkers who couldn’t identify a wren prompted this call to bring back the Nature Table, once common in British schools. source:  http://parkroyalpre-school.org.uk/amazing-bugs-and-nature-tables/ Chris – Your campaign on peoples’ ignorance of wildlife … Continue reading →

Here’s an article by Chris Rose from the UNA report ‘Climate 2020: Facing the Future’. “I doubt that they teach much about cognitive psychology, advertising, marketing or politics at weather school. Things like heuristics, framing and values. Not surprisingly, the … Continue reading →

This blog is re-posted from Tom Burke’s blog at E3G and was originally published in Green Business.  If you want to understand what’s really going on in the climate and energy arena, this is a very good place to start.  … Continue reading →

Surveys of 15 countries representing the majority of the global population, show that it’s a predominantly Prospector world.  (To understand more about the ‘three worlds’ of these three ‘Maslow Groups’ see my book What Makes People Tick: The Three Hidden … Continue reading →

Is Verge Rage breaking out in East Anglia ?  BBC’s Look East is tweeting about people in dispute over whether to cut flowery road verges for ‘safety reasons’ or to let them grow tall and flower for wildlife and beauty. … Continue reading →

GUEST BLOG by Phil Rothwell (philrothwell41@gmail.com) Phil Rothwell is now a consultant biologist who worked for many years for the RSPB, Environment Agency and other organisations.  His story reminds us of how dangerous it is if campaigners simply adjust their … Continue reading →