November 2011

  • HEA Academic Lead for Education for Sustainable Development

    I need to add my welcome and congratulations to xxxxxx (I don't know either).  As yesterday's ESD Project e-newsletter notes: This highly motivated and engaging individual will have the pleasure of coordinating and/or leading on the rest of this year's...

  • Responsibly sourced concrete

    I'm grateful to Nick Jones for forwarding the latest newsletter from the BRE group which reports that 70% of UK concrete is now responsibly sourced, and covered by BRE Global’s BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing certification. Being curious as to what...

  • Cradle to cradle to ... what exactly?

    At the Management International Conference in Portorož, I listened to a confident presentation about cradle to cradle ideas by Albin Kälin, CEO of EPEA Switzerland.  I suppose I should say Cradle to Cradle® as this phrase has been registered.  Anyway. EPEA...

  • Managing sustainability?

    I'm jus returned from Slovenia where I gave a keynote at the 12th Management International Conference, MIC, in Portorož. The title of the conference was Managing Sustainability?, and I was asked, in particular, to talk about the ? in the title...

  • ... nor hell a fury like an academic scorned

    Next Easter, classics Professor, Edith Hall, is moving across London, from Royal Holloway to King's in a move prompted, we're told, by her present university's reaction to funding changes.  The Observer, today, carried some detail of the ins and outs...

  • Compensation please – we’ve far too much oil

    Saudi Arabia is one of two countries that have declined to endorse a report on the Green Climate Fund, one of the few ideas, you'll recall, that was spawned in 2009 in the UN meeting that became known as Nopenhagen....

  • Rachel Carson: a child's world

    Now and then, I come across fragments of text which resonate.  Maybe it's the thought of my grandchildren that provokes this: A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.  It is our misfortune that...

  • Lost Graduate Found

    Now that Saif al-Islam has been found skulking in the desert, maybe the LSE will be able to get its PhD back.  Celebrations all round.

  • The Isle of ... Green

    The Economist carries a short piece this week on well-connected efforts to make the Isle of Wight self-sufficient in just about everything: the Isle of Green.  However, as an irregular traveller on the Red Jet service from Southampton to Cowes,...

  • 20 questions in the woods

    A good day at the Hampshire Collegiate School on Friday, opening their splendid new learning outside the classroom facilities.  What a wonderful setting for the addition of a building that is not only nicely designed and constructed (by their own...