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Another day, and there's yet another ESD conference in an exotic location.  This one's in that part of Spain that is forever British.  No, not Ibiza – Gibraltar. The breathless strapline for this event (I'll not be going) is: Universities as Beacons of...

This is a controversial issue as the UK government unwinds the subsidies available for the installation of renewable energy, although subsidies for coal (etc) remain in place.  A new Circulate report explores the issue.  It begins: "The short answer to this...

Whilst everyone seems to acknowledge that there are problems with GDP as a measure of (changing) economic activity, there are no clear ways out of the difficulty.  For example, whilst pollution may be, generally speaking, a bad thing, it can...

The World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be held in Manchester from the 5th to 7th of April, 2017.  It is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and the...

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...