September 2016

  • Brite Green Higher Education carbon report launched

    The Brite Green Higher Education carbon report has been launched.  EAUC says: Based on data from the 2014/15 academic year, the report looks at how the sector is doing overall and specifically, how institutions are performing against their 2020 carbon...

  • Clear the Beaches

    The Times carried a story the other day that the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) had banned an anti-Fracking advert from Friends of the Earth (FoE) on the grounds that it was misleading.  The paper reported: "Friends of the Earth (FoE)...

  • Energy Exchange graphics

    If you've ever found yourself wondering how much electricity Bulgaria exported in November 2015, and to where, and got no answers, your problems are over.  Just go here where fabulous graphs will answer this, and many another question about European energy...

  • Countryside Didactics and the National Trust

    I wrote last week about the article by Simon Murray, the NT's Director of Everything, in the Autumn magazine, and promised to say some more about what he had to say about the "more difficult" countryside. Well, he wrote this: "The countryside...

  • What might be the shortest report in the world

    UCL's Development Education Research Centre (DERC) has been commissioned by UNESCO to prepare a briefing paper on Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education within the training of teachers. It's looking for any examples around the world of initiatives that bring...

  • Didactics and the National Trust

    I've been leafing through the NT's Autumn magazine and turned to the article by Simon Murray, the Senior Director of Everything with particular interest.  Actually Murray is only i/c Strategy, Curatorship, Visitor Experience, and External Affairs, but you do wonder...

  • My week

    A time to remember – A visit from an old friend and colleague from the Netherlands prompted thoughts about the 1980s when I believed the EU was a force for good, and teacher education the "priority of priorities".  No longer, of course....

  • Subjective well-being over the life course: evidence and policy implications

    This the prolix title of an international conference in London on 12/13 December at the LSE.   It's asking: Why should governments care about people’s wellbeing, and How would policy change if raising wellbeing was the objective? The conference blurb says:...

  • A triumph for NUS and Jamie Agombar

    Well done to the NUS sustainability team for scooping a whopping global ESD Prize.  They'll be off to Paris in October, to UNESCO Central Command, and three days of launching and lunching in that special French way. There are three...

  • What might Brexit mean for the environment?

    In a new study, Charlotte Burns, Andrew Jordan and Viviane Gravey, explore what Brexit might come to mean for UK environmental policies and governance processes by comparing two scenarios: a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit. A ‘soft’ Brexit would see the UK...