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Preparing for a talk on communicating sustainable development with the public, I've been reading far too many reports than are good for me. The following is from a survey of attitudes and knowledge relating to biodiversity and the natural environment (2007...

Just how different are schools and universities when it comes to addressing sustainability?  I pondered that question recently, and the associated one of wondering whether "lessons" from one sector could have any applicability in the other.  I've been doing this,...

Well, according to the Telegraph's excitable headline writers they do!  However, the truth is less dramatic and more interesting – as was revealed if you struggled to the bottom of the story. According to research summarised in Ars Technica, ......

This week saw the publication of the 2013 Complete University Guide.  This categories universities into sets of league tables according to entry standards, student satisfaction, research assessment and graduate prospects, etc.  The raw data come from public sources. One thing...

A recent report for UNESCO that looked at the main lessons learned from ESD practice in the UK concluded that "ESD is misunderstood."  This seems entirely the wrong way round to me: People find ESD impossible to understand, more like. Here's a...

This was the title of a recent Economist piece on electric cars in the US – actually, on why the sales of all-electric cars or hybrids haven't taken off (despite high fuel costs), and on why what is claimed for...

Probably, I'd say, and the bloke sitting on this rock certainly looks as if he's running that risk. Thanks to Learn from Nature for alerting me to this long list of possible reasons why contact with nature is a good thing....

Sustainable Development in the European Union is the 2011 monitoring report on the EU's sustainable development Strategy (EU SDS).  This is the fourth report charting progress in the implementation of the 2006 strategy which describes how the EU will more...

Stefan Collini seems to be wherever you look; well, his book reviews are: THE, the Observer, and the Economist – which goes to show something of my narrow reading these days.  But for someone like me, who is a part-time student...

Every two years, the UNEP Foresight Process produces what is says is a "careful and authoritative ranking" of the most important emerging issues related to the global environment, in order to inform the UN and wider international community, as well...