New Publications

  • It's a brave school ...

    It's a brave school that posts a Ken Robinson RSAnimate video on its website, but this is what Montgomery school in Devon has done. And the school isn't backward about coming forward: Welcome to Montgomery Primary School, the first Zero...

  • Keep Scotland beautiful – but let's hear more about it

    Keep Scotland Beautiful sports a number of blogs which were established back in September 2011 in an obvious fit of enthusiasm for new-ish media.  One of these is that rare species, the environmental education blog.   This is written by...

  • iTunes for ESD

    It's wonderful what you can find on iTunes these days, but to come across a whole lot of stuff on ESD some may think rather unexpected.  Not so, however, just click here to find 81 (at today's count) outputs from Education...

  • Sustainability megaforces – but not quite the usual suspects

    KPMG have published a report on the sustainability megaforces will “impact each and every business over the next 20 years" – and the rest of us, no doubt.  Ten are cited: Climate Change Energy & fuel Material resource scarcity Water...

  • Keele watch

    The University of Keele has appointed Jonathon Porritt as its new Chancellor – brave, or what? I ask this as JP remains an activist to his core as completely befits someone who a founder of Forum for the Future, and...

  • 65 billion tonnes

    65 billion tonnes is an impressive amount in any context.  It probably even exceeds the amount of caviar that bankers get through in a year (Sorry, bankers everywhere, but this seems to be Be Mean month.  I'll get over it)....

  • 4th Global Universities Network for Innovation report

    I have been reading Lester Brown's Introduction [ The World on the Edge ] to the 4th GUNI [ Global Universities Network for Innovation ] report: Higher Education in the World 4, Higher Education's Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action'....

  • You should continue to support institutions in their efforts to improve their sustainability

    The title of this posting comes from the very recent grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2012 / 13).  It comes from para 22, which says: The HE sector has made good progress in recent years...

  • How does ESDGC make a difference? Does ESDGC ...

    This week's Economist carried a sad tale of a decade of scholastic stagnation in Wales following the teacher unions' (entirely selfless) success in persuading a credulous government that it was in young people's interests that national league tables of schools...

  • Engineers in distress

    Anyone who's suffered in a too-warm, poorly-ventilated classroom lately and wondered why – given that it was a new build to a supposedly eco design, should look for some explanation to a comment in a recent edition of Building4Change published by...