- How to teach peace-building in schools – d’Arcy pointed me to this extraordinary four tiered board game for teaching children about conflict resolution, and these online resources from Unicef and buildingpeace.org
- Some good news on biofuels: in response to rising food prices, the EU has voted to cap the use of biofuels at 6% of transport fuel use, replacing the previous target of 10%.
- Here’s some research I’ll be highlighting to my local council: making places better for walking can boost footfall and trading by up to 40%.
- Having found Stephen Emmott’s book 10 Billion to be unexpectedly poor this week, I’ve been wondering if anyone else thought so. Turns out I’m not alone. Alex Evans suggests it shouldn’t really have been written at all. Chris Goodall calls it ‘unscientific and misanthropic‘ and makes a long list of mistakes.
- Every week I turn down a dozen or so marketing offers for advertising on this site. This week’s finest was this one: “My name is …………. and I do lots of work promoting the best bingo sites in the UK. I recently found your website makewealthhistory.org listed on Google, and I’m happy to say that it meets all of my requirements.” Yep, the online bingo community can’t get enough of this site.
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B-b-but bingo ads would just compliment this site so well! I mean, you even mention money in your blog’s title 😛
I think ‘make’ and ‘wealth’ in the title are about as far as the ad guys read, judging by the percentage of ad offers that are get-rich-quick schemes and financial advice.