New Publications

To Bath today to listen to Keele University's Andy Dobson talk on Environmental Behaviour Change: incentives, 'nudge', and citizenship as part of the I-SEE seminar series.  This will be based on his recent publication Sustainability Citizenship for Green House, the (relatively)...

Significant publicity has been given recently to a new educational resource from Susted: Ethica -The Ethical Finance Game. Susted says: This is an educational board and role-play game. It lets players assume the roles of bank customers, investment bankers or co-operative...

Although the competition is always fierce for this title, and there is a distinct people in glass houses element to my commenting on it at all, the following paper must surely have very short odds with the bookies this year:...

In the latest edition of Sustainability Now, from Sustainability South West, SSW Director Leslie Watson writes: Should our planning system enshrine ‘a presumption in favour of sustainable development’?  Of course it should – presuming it is clear about the definition...

Last year, the Open University's Gill Kirkup published Academic blogging: academic practice and academic identity in the London Review of Education.  Although this is a small study, I found it a thoughtful reflection on the purposes, practices (and pitfalls) of...

There seemed nothing to disagree with or take exception to in this PP Broadcast which is an odd thing to say, given that much of what you hear in the usual PPBs  is either tendentious or "consciously dishonest" as Orwell...

Last Sunday, The Observer asked how can we make our schools fit for the 21st Century, which is a question that many of those of us who are interested in sustainability are asking all the time.  It did this by...

Deep Green Resistance (an equally deep ambiguity there) is a book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith & Aric McBay.  Derrick is [the] leading voice of uncompromising dissent, Lierre is a radical feminist activist from California who has been arrested six...

I've been watching the latest video from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on You Tube.  Good stuff. I liked the idea of biodegradable glasses (24 seconds in) and wondered if this is a genuine innovation, or just wishful thinking.  More seriously,...

What's a blog for if it isn't about bringing recondite websites to a (in all probability, very slightly) wider audience.  In that spirit, here's Rodent Respect courtesy of my colleague Alan Reid. A website created for scientists and students working with...