June 2010

  • The Organic Garden Educator's Dilemma

    You are an organic garden educator working with teachers and young people in schools and communities in order to help them to ... [i] develop a positive attitude towards getting involved in gardening including food growing; [ii] acquire gardening skills that...

  • Zero Carbon Britain – a treat in store

    In Portcullis House the other night at the launch of Canolfan Dechnoleg Amgen's second Zero Carbon Britain 2030 report.  Pretty gloomy stuff and nothing about education in the presentations. Those speaking certainly seemed cheerful in looking forwards (backwards more like) to the...

  • Half a Lifetime ago ...

    Half a Lifetime ago I had my first paper published in School Science Review.  I was still a schoolteacher and it was a reflection on reflection (of sorts) on practice.  Some 35 years later, my second will shortly come out...

  • Update on Writing to the DfE

    UPDATE:  It took about 3 weeks to get a response – which is what they promise, more or less.  But all it said was that there was no news, yet.  Meanwhile, I've written again – at SEEd's behest –  this...

  • Bath Plummets in Green League

    For the third year running, the University has dropped in the People & Planet Green league.  From a dizzy 57th= in 2009, we are now 77th=, just scraping a 2.2, sharing this fame with Cardiff, Leicester, Westminster and Sunderland.  ...

  • Another Day, Another Quango ...

    On June 2nd, as the DfE website notes, it's the GTC whose time has come to an end.  Apart from its own, whose tears will be shed I wonder?  There's a useful list of (and comment on) what seem quite...

  • Sustainable Development – carved up in a different way

    In my recent visit to Sweden and the GRESD network (See Blog Postcard from Sweden) there was a presentation which threw new light on the issue of how one might think about SD without resorting to separating it out into...

  • New ESD Action Plan

    Scotland's Action Plan for the second half of the UN's Decade is available here.  More comment when I've read it.

  • School Design Futures Seminar

    In an earlier blog [ John Huckle Redux ] I mentioned that I was to make a presentation at a School Design Futures seminar.  A video of my talk can be found  here.

  • Calculating the Cost of your Curry

    A cautionary tale from today's SDRN Update: A new carbon footprinting tool, developed by researchers at the University of Manchester, suggests that lamb curry ready-made meals eaten in the UK amount to an annual carbon footprint equivalent to 5,500 car...