January 2012

  • Foster a concern for the wise and equitable management of the earth's resources

    In 1979, Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools [HMI] published a supplementary working paper on environmental education as part of their reporting on Curriculum 11 – 16 in England.  The paper was written after Tbilisi, and it references both this and...

  • 4th Global Universities Network for Innovation report

    I have been reading Lester Brown's Introduction [ The World on the Edge ] to the 4th GUNI [ Global Universities Network for Innovation ] report: Higher Education in the World 4, Higher Education's Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action'....

  • Ellen MacArthur in Davos

    The new publication from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (with McKinsey) got an airing in Davos at the WEF ahead of its launch today, and was reported on the BBC. It's a credit to the interviewer that he got to the...

  • Welcome Judy Braus

    Let me add my welcome to Judy Braus as the new Executive Director of the North American Association of Environmental Education [ NAAEE ].  Judy took up her post in December after senior roles at Audubon and WWF (the wildlife,...

  • World day of environmental education – all over again

    Rather belatedly, I discover that Thursday – 26th January – was the World Day of Environmental Education.  I'm grateful to Learn from Nature, for pointing this out.  It seems that this has its origin in 1972 with the Declaration of...

  • You should continue to support institutions in their efforts to improve their sustainability

    The title of this posting comes from the very recent grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2012 / 13).  It comes from para 22, which says: The HE sector has made good progress in recent years...

  • How does ESDGC make a difference? Does ESDGC ...

    This week's Economist carried a sad tale of a decade of scholastic stagnation in Wales following the teacher unions' (entirely selfless) success in persuading a credulous government that it was in young people's interests that national league tables of schools...

  • More on national curriculum revisions

    In a recent posting, I commented that the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the revised curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally was a pertinent phrasing...

  • An opportunity for head teachers everywhere

    The BBC reported on saturday that the Occupy movement is looking to extend its activities to outreach; that is to the wider community including schools.  The BBC reports: The protest group says the point of its occupation is to reclaim "the space...

  • UNECE's coinage

    With my usual heavy (but ever-hopeful) heart, I have been reading some UNECE text in preparation for a meeting on the "green economy".  In the Introduction to a discussion paper on the role of education for sustainable development in shifting to...