September 2017

  • The World’s Largest Lesson – a suggestion

    It's almost time once again for the World’s Largest Lesson which sets out to introduce "the Sustainable Development Goals to children and young people everywhere and unites them in action".  The WLL website says "17 Global Goals to achieve these 3...

  • HEFCE and the lack of sustainable development

    Whatever has happened to the HEFCE Sustainable Development Plan?  Do you know?  If there has been an update recently, I've missed it.  There was a clear commitment to producing updates in the Sustainable Development policy framework document [2014/30] – see page 21.  That...

  • Every Tom, Dick and Walter ...

    Wherever you go – to the shops, the pub, the cinema – there's seemingly no escaping the sustainable development goals.  But these are often invoked to add some spurious relevance to whatever was going to happen anyway.  There was a...

  • 1 of 30 under 30

    Congratulations to Quinn Runkle of the NUS for making it into NAAEE's 30 under 30.  NAAEE says: Started in 2016, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and this year, adding support from the U.S. Forest Service and the Global...

  • Another gloomy UNESCO Report on ESD

    There's a new UNESCO report [*] that sets out to offer reflections on "an aspect of Education for Sustainable Development" by the UNESCO / UNTWIN Chairs. Although it's sub-titled "a decade of progress", the editors' Foreword gives the game away.  In...

  • Sustainability Competences

    Today’s blog is by Steve Martin: There is a new discourse emerging within the education and learning for sustainability community, which argues that citizens need to have certain key competencies that allow them to engage constructively and responsibly with an...

  • What Larry (might have) written to James

    I was away when the great storm blew up in Google around the memo written by James Damore, and his subsequent sacking, and I had to rely on the various musings of the liberal right and liberal and illiberal left...

  • Daughters of Destiny

    I've been watching Daughters of Destiny, a four-part documentary about the Shanti Bhavan school in India’s Tamil Nadu which was founded by Abraham George, an Indian business man who made his $zillions in the USA.  I did this with the sustainable development...

  • Al's new movie

    I hope Al G's new film, An Inconvenient Sequel: truth to power is better than the original.  I certainly trust that it doesn't contain as many errors as the first – errors that led a UK judge to force the DfE...

  • EASE-y does it

    As you all surely know, EASE is a project which is open to up to 60 SEEd members to join and contribute to.   SEEd has run one launch event in London "with 18 organisations participating and another 17 interested in...