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How will green will be our valley

 Earlier this morning, Tuesday 20 May, I gave an invited talk on 'environmental philosophy' at Reepham High School in North Norfolk. The level of interest among the gifted and talented kids in the class was very exciting. I talked with mostly twelve and thirteen year olds about ecological economics as the new Copernican revolution in economics, about human beings as part of their (our) ecosystem, and so on, and the kids lapped it up and asked all sorts of challenging and exciting questions.
 It gives one hope. If these kids point the way to the future, then how will green will be our valley...

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