July 2012

  • ESD in the UK national archives

    If you enter "environmental education" into a UK National Archive search you come up with 20 entries that start in 1972 with items about EE in Bournemouth and in Doncaster.  Prominent entries relate to the Belgrade and Tbilisi conferences.  Most...

  • Higgs, Higgs, glorious Higgs

    I was going to write about the latest IAU Horizons magazine and its welcome (if overdue) focus on the contribution of higher education to sustainable development (actually, the focus was mostly on ESD) – and, sadly, on its awful proof-reading,...

  • More red flags needed in Wiltshire

    I'm told it will soon be Wiltshire Council policy that all pedestrians in the county are to be kept at least 50 metres away from cars travelling at 50 kph, and farther away from those travelling at higher speeds.  There...

  • Engaging visitors from Tel Aviv

    A pleasure yesterday to be part of a South west Learning for Sustainability Coalition team welcoming visitors from the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership in Tel Aviv to the University of Bath. The Center is: "dedicated to building...

  • When the Amazon is gone we'll have 40% less atmospheric oxygen

    I received an email Network Link newsletter from UNESCO UK the other day, and was pleased to see that it contained a number of references to education, including two focused on sustainability.  One was about ESD in Practice: To raise...

  • George Monbiot on despair, hope and action

    This is the end of George Monbiot’s piece in the Guardian the other day: … That we have missed the chance of preventing two degrees of global warming now seems obvious.  That most of the other planetary boundaries will be...