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The Guardian reports that Johannes Haushofer, who is assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, has published an alternative CV of his career failures up to now.  Publishing an anti-cv like this might, of course, just result in his adding...

The 2016 Nature Connections conference in Derby in June has the theme of Getting Connected to Nature.  Whilst I quite fancy going because of the theme and topics to be discussed, looking at how stuffed full of brief inputs the programme is, suggests that I'd only get...

I see that UCU and NUS have a conference coming up in Manchester on May 13th: The role of education institutions in tackling climate change UCU says: "On Friday 21 April  2016 the Paris climate agreement was signed in New...

If the talk John Robinson gave at Edinburgh recently about the Living Lab approach at the University of British Columbia is anything to go by, some progress has been made there on the educational front.  Robinson was, until recently, UBC's vice provost for...

I know of some who think that when society is "sustainable", there will be no need for charities to exist as every need (and want, presumably) will be provided – though by whom is never really clear.  These folk often also...

I went to UNESCO's reception the other evening to mark the publication of a report into the "wider value of UNESCO to the UK".  You can download it here.  The evening was well-organised, relaxed and informative. The report says that...

I have written now and then (both here and in papers) about the University of British Columbia model of sustainability, and (less frequently) about its short-comings, particularly in relation to how its teaching and learning provision fails to keep up both...

I guess you have come across Palgrave MacMillan's pivot series of books?  Such a nice idea.  I've reviewing one at the moment for EER.  It's a very tactile thing with a brightly patterned silky cover. The very titles are inviting, which suggests...

Whilst I do agree that most of those advocating ESD in universities ought to lighten up, that seems no good reason to devote a whole conference to it.  But this seems to be what is happening in Gibraltar in June...

DECC announced recently that, in 2015, 24.7% of the UK's electricity was generated from renewables – compared to 19.1% in 2014.  That's nearly a 30% increase.  The fuel that made way for this was, inevitably, coal. Meanwhile low-carbon activists were celebrating...