Geography and all that Jazz

Flooding As usual, the Independent has the best front cover of any paper: Also on the news this morning was watching the crumbling dam wall of Ulley reservoir - my grandma lives just down the valley in Whiston, and have spent many an evening in the Royal Oak pub in the village drinking a nice pint of Sam Smiths. Lots of pics of flooding in the Wicker arches in Sheffield, and also the Tesco's in Rotherham... Also on the theme of water and mud, the first pictures from the G Team's trip to Glastonbury are now available at the PASSION4GEOGRAPHY site.

Geography in the Times Yet again, some Geography bashing. An article by Jane Shilling which starts about the G Team's appearance on Today and later, begrudgingly, appreciates that actually the My Walks project which was one of the items is actually a wonderful thing... Here's the offending bit: A certain new year’s languor meant that I wasn’t paying very close attention to the Today programme on Monday morning, especially as they seemed unaccountably to have handed it over to a bunch of geographers to edit. Very worthy, no doubt, but terminal moraines are so not my thing at crack of dawn on the first day of the year . Reproduced below is Doreen Massey's excellent essay which was read out towards the end of the program. It succintly explains so much about the world we live in today, and the fundamental role of Geography in understanding it ! “Geographical perspectives” A mini-essay for the Today Programme 1 st January 2007 Professor Doreen Massey There is an...

Happy New Year to all my readers! Currently listening again to the Radio 4 Today programme on listen again, which was edited by the G Team. Interesting clip from Vanessa Lawrence on the importance of maps in our everyday lives: "there is more geography being used today than ever before" Also item on the connection between immigration in Britain and the effect on poverty in Afric a. Apparently people of African origin send home an average of just under £1000 a year. Interview with some Ghanaians living in London and from correspondent in Ghana. An item on the growth of the EU: the link between Europe and links between Europe. My Walks : project from Northumbria University - look at familiar places as an unfamiliar place. Geography is about change in the contemporary world. Interview with Dr. Duncan Fuller from the university. Final interview with the guest editors. Doreen Massey provided a small input relating climate change to globalisation. We demand goods but don...

Geography and Electricity General Electric: an American energy company have a nice site called GEOTERRA which is aimed at exploring ideas of renewable energy by providing a series of FLASH games on an island, which explores issues to do with energy conservation such as blasting air at windmills and steering trains around a route. Geography and Chocolate Certainly eaten a lot of it in the last 10 days or so... Charlie and Lola are a favourite of my kids. Was just browsing Amazon for some sales bargains, and found this new book, which is due to be published in February 2007, when it will cost £2.99 - you can pre-order now. Could be a good resource to use as a prize for younger geography students. Why not order several copies at that price... The book is to raise funds for COMIC RELIEF . There is going to be a RED NOSE DAY on the of March 2007, and the site is already up. You can download a set of excellent Interactive Whiteboard resources: 5 FLASH files which would make great sta...

Today Programme New Years Day Just a reminder about this programme. There is a list of some of the ideas that are to be covered on the GA WEBSITE . Also a good story here about Ollie Bray's journey home . Anyone else caught up in the fog ?

Time Magazine's Person of the Year . This year, the winner is.... ME! And anyone else who has used the Internet to create and share content... Congratulations to us all. Read the story HERE. Also, don't forget to set your alarm clock for 6.30am on New Years Day Gift of a Goat Monday 1 January 2007 6:30-7:00 (Radio 4 FM) Ethical gifts of goats to help poor African families have become a popular Christmas present. But what happens to the animals and the people who receive them? Hermione Cockburn visits Uganda to see a goat scheme in action. She investigates the challenges of keeping the animals healthy and well looked after and discovers just what it takes to ensure that new goats help rural communities struggling to find a way out of poverty. and then stay tuned for TODAY, from 7am - 9am, presented by the G Team. Visited the website just now and discovered the Museum of London's rather nice "My London" Emotional Map of the capital. Why not check out ...

Well done to Team Geography... As announced a while ago, a team of Geographers were bidding to be the guest editors of the Today programme on 1st January 2007. They were up against 3 other teams, but it was announced yesterday that the Geography team are the victorious team... There is an announcement HERE (which may move...), but well done to David L, Dan R-E and Hannah B. So it's a chance to Give Geography its Place on the radio. I presume there won't be a late night on New Years Eve for the team though. A great Geographical start to the New Year!

Geography on the Radio "Today", the Radio 4 News programme is offering the chance for groups of people to be guest editors on the show. Tomorrow, David Lambert will represent a GGiP team on the programme at 8.40am pitching their ideas. For more on the ideas, see the latest posting on the GGiP blog. http://givegeographyitsplace.blogspot.com/ From tomorrow, you have a chance to vote for the G Team of David, Dan Ellison and Hannah one of Dan's students. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ And if you miss the programme you can always 'Listen Again'... The voting opens on Wednesday the 8th of November. Make sure you vote for the 'G' team to hit the 'G' spot. Let's give Geography a place on Radio 4 !