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Artist offers tea and cake

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08 Jan 2009

Totnes artist Janey Hunt is offering refreshments  in exchange for you letting her know your "eco-sins" and successes.

A prescription for fun

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08 Jan 2009

It has recently been reported that Ofsted are to 'crack down' on 'boring' teaching as part of an effort to refocus inspectors' attention on teaching and learning.

Kevin Pietersen - the cultural theory explanation

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08 Jan 2009

Matthew Taylor

Cultural theory and Kevin Pietersen

"... an artist is also a citizen."

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08 Jan 2009

In a passionate, furious post Georgia Kotretsos blogs from Greece for Art21 | blog wonders what part, if any, art has to play in the current upheaval in her country:

Public services: the next eighteen months will be pivotal

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07 Jan 2009

Matthew Taylor

Financially, politically and socially the next eighteen months are pivotal for public services, especially those delivered locally.

Pessimism, optimism, pt 3

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07 Jan 2009

Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory, one of the best bloggers in the arts/ecology zone, has an excellent article in the Economist's Intelligent Life magazine about the high level of public indifference to climate change, suggesting that our strategies are all wrong.

Bill McKibben on 350.org

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06 Jan 2009

I've just put up the Bill McKibben interview. He's asking artists to become involved working somehow with the figure 350. (That's the number of parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere which NASA scientist James Hansen thinks will allow a sustainable civilisation).

The Israeli action in Gaza - a leadership deficit

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06 Jan 2009

Matthew Taylor

I hesitate before entering the debate about the Israeli action in Gaza. But I wanted to share a powerful interview with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, which took place last autumn and I haven’t seen referred to elsewhere.

Dear Barack and Michelle

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05 Jan 2009

From the recent open letter from NASA climate scientist James Hansen to Michelle and Barack Obama, urging radical action when he takes office: