October 2016

  • Another day; another world heritage site

    UNESCO's world heritage sites [WHS] are a wide-ranging in scope and focus.  The UK has 30 of them.  Some are natural, but most are deemed cultural; one, St Kilda, is said to be both, although many could be so designated.  They...

  • Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways

    In preparation for the Natural England meeting last week, I read the University of Essex's Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways report: Pretty J, Angus C, Bain M, Barton J, Gladwell V, Hine R, Pilgrim S, Sandercock S and Sellens M. 2009. Nature,...

  • New blood pumping at think global

    Think Global has appointed a new CEO, Jess McQuail, who is currently Executive Director at the charity Basic Needs.  Jess has over 20 years' experience in the UK and international not-for-profit sector and is passionate about working for a more...

  • Adjectival good order

    I'm no fan of the excessive use of adjectives.  More to the point, I'm no fan of the use of adjectives.  This unpreference has grown out of my reading of too many academic papers rendered both prolix and otiose by strings of...

  • To Bristol ...

    To Bristol last week for a meeting of the strategic research group on learning in natural environments – LINE.  It was a small group which meant there could be a free-flowing exchange of views, with ideas building on ideas.  Well structured...

  • The CO2 emissions of sacred cows

    The CO2 emissions of sacred cows is by Indiana University's Richard Wilk and it is reproduced in full here, with his permission, and my recommendation, as a provocative (in the best sense) read. I have been thinking about energy conservation issues since 1982...

  • Another blog from Madison

    Here's a link to another of the thoughts from Morgan Phillips about his time with NAAEE in Madison.  This is how it begins: "The NAAEE Annual Conference is in its 45th year, fourteen years ago conference decided it needed to...

  • Another day; another Manchester symposium

    I see that there's another dodgy-sounding symposium in Manchester next March.  Its prolix title is: Symposium on Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities: teaching approaches, methods, examples and case studies The dreary blurb says: "One of the major barriers to...

  • Every Tam, Dougie and Hamish is working on the SDGs it seems

    There's evidence that our friends in North Britain are slowly getting up to speed on the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs].  Learning for Sustainability Scotland [LfSS] says it is now working with members to develop a new task group focusing on...

  • Report from the Madison GEEP

    Here's Morgan Phillips on the GEEP meeting which began this week in Wisconsin.  I'll relay more of this as it becomes available.