September 2015

  • German students are now €uros in

    Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has announced the first winners of the UNESCO-Japan Prize for outstanding projects related to ESD. They are: Asociación SERES (Guatemala and El Salvador) ~ awarded for its “SERES ESD Youth Ambassadors” initiative, which uses an...

  • Lies, damned lies and vehicle emissions data

    I was in Germany when the extent of the VW emissions scandal finally became clear to us all.  Amid all that sausage, cake and beer, there was considerable reputational anxiety – and not just for car-making, though it does employ,...

  • All those useful holes under the North Sea

    According to the Telegraph the other week, the UK (that might mean Scotland) will be quids in because of all the empty(ish) oil and gas wells under the North Sea – just right (and almost ready) for the CO2 that...

  • Nothing's a long way further than Telford

    There are good reasons why Housman set his poem comparing Shropshire and London in Knighton, rather than Telford, not least because the River Teme doesn't flow through the north of the county; Telford's being a new town may also have had...

  • Simon Barnes on the Rhino

    Here's Simon Barnes writing in the Spectator about the sad plight of the rhino.  Comments seem superfluous.

  • Quality Education, Zanu PF and ESD

    As a post-script to my recent posting about Zimbabwe, I searched for Quality Education on the Zanu PF website (required reading from now on, I think) and was led to this speech by Mugabe.  No wonder he's a leader of men (and...

  • Let's make October 5th Nick Clegg Day

    Nick Clegg's new plastic bag tax / charge comes into effect on October 5th across England.  From that date, retailers with >250 full-time (equivalent) employees will have to charge at least 5p for the single-use plastic bag.  The idea is to encourage...

  • There but for the Grace [of] Mugabe, go we all

    I don't know about you, but I always find Arjen Wals' Transformative Learning blog both entertaining and informative.  It is, for example, one of the few places you can go to keep up to date with the growing amount of plastics...

  • Carbon literacy in Manchester

    Manchester Metropolitan University [MMU] says that it is leading the world when it comes to teaching students to become “carbon literate”.  It seems that students from MMU's Department of Food and Tourism Management have become the first in the world to gain a...

  • LOtC – learning what, not where

    The folk that run Learning Outside the Classroom say you can improve personal development through learning outside the classroom.  Well, I suppose they would, just as you can do this in all sorts of other ways – such as inside the classroom....