Talks and Presentations

This question ran through a 2012 conference in Berne at which I spoke.  The conference marked the conclusion of the project "Development of Indicators to Evaluate Offerings and Performance in the Area of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)", which ran...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Field Studies Council, the RSA convened a panel to look 70 years into the future, and predict the emerging drivers which might most affect people's physical connections with the outdoor environment.  This the...

My keynote at the 6th Beijing Forum on ESD was about the problem of identifying sustainable development indicators that focus on the contribution of education; that is, ESD.  This is the text of the talk ... The Development of ESD...

A nice quote from Engels in Mr Tao Xiping's talk on the Strategic Value of ESD and its Future Development: "We are punished for every victory over nature." It would be nice to think so, as would be the notion...

The 6th Beijing International Forum on begins in two hours with ceremony, and with welcomes from: Niu Chunshan, Deputy Mayor, People’s Government of Beijing Municipality Xian Lianping, Director, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education Liu Limin, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education...

I'm off to the 6th Beijing International Forum on ESD.  The theme is Education for Sustainable Development: Education for Tomorrow – The Decade Review and Future Prospects. I'll be speaking on: The Development of ESD indicators – exploring frameworks and criteria. The...

The highlight of Tuesday morning at EESD was not the Keynote by BP's Ellen Williams, provocative though that was (as well as being welcome in a post-Browne sense).  Rather, it was the pre-presentations questions posed by the Chair of parallel...

I've long had the view that it was the University of British Columbia [UBC] that you should look to in order to see the intersection of higher education and sustainability at its best; that is, for an integration across research,...

The second keynote on day one of the conference was given by Lord Browne of Maddingley.  It  hadn't a title, which may have been because it didn't have much of a focus.  This was a keynote that could have been...

The number of countries represented here is impressive.  They include: USA     Canada     Mexico     Colombia     Chile     Virgin Islands     Ghana     South Africa     Malaysia     China     Australia  ...