Bill Scott
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Bill Scott17 July 2012
Keep America beautiful by recycling less
I once got into trouble during a talk at a school by suggesting that they should try to reduce the amount of stuff they recycled, and that cutting waste in the first place was a better project. It fell on...
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Bill Scott16 July 2012
Having your cake and eating other people's
This Michael Leunig cartoon wafted its way from Australia the other day. My reaction was: doesn't this satirise affluent developed-economy lifestyles, especially those enjoyed by my generation, rather than the idea (or, for some, ideal) of sustainability? On being provoked to...
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Bill Scott13 July 2012
John Clare day
In Monday's Guardian, George Monbiot suggested that today ought to be John Clare Day (his birth date in 1793). Well, fine by me, and I'd join any queue to be the first to agree with this. Monbiot's argument is that John...
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Bill Scott11 July 2012
The university contribution to the green economy
The Guardian last Friday carried a story from the CBI about the current contribution of green growth to the UK economy. The headline was: Choice between 'green or growth' is a false one, CBI chief says. The CBI's chief executive,...
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Bill Scott10 July 2012
The most comprehensive publication on sustainability at universities ever produced
This is not my claim; I'm just passing it on. It comes from Walter Leal (Filho) and describes the forthcoming book: Sustainable Development at Universities: new horizons – edited by Walter Leal. This arises from the "World Symposium on Sustainable...
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Bill Scott9 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...
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Bill Scott6 July 2012
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,...
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Bill Scott5 July 2012
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...
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Bill Scott4 July 2012
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...
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Bill Scott3 July 2012
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...