Talks and Presentations

Yesterday's presentations in the first Symposium session were: Education for Sustainable Development in School Contexts – Transformations and Translations Katrine Dahl Madsen (University of Aarhus) Research Priorities for Environmental Education in the UK, Europe and beyond Stephen Gough & Elsa...

After a gap of many years, I am at the European Conference on Educational Research in Istanbul.  The pull of this year's event was the first meeting of a new grouping: Research on Environmental and Sustainability Education [ESE].  Another anachrocnym, I...

No, not the bomb, in the Dr Strangelove sense.  Rather, in a John Foster sense, it's climate change: this irruption of the ineliminably wild back into lives which had forgotten it. This was one of the main themes of John's I-SEE...

I listened to nPower's Paul Bowtell the other day at a Wildlife Trust Corporate Green Awards breakfast.  He talked about the company's "trilemma" of Moving to a low carbon economy Maintain a secure supply Keeping energy affordable ... all at...

This is the title of today's I-SEE seminar at Bath.  It marks John Foster's welcome return to the university after too long an absence. Here's the abstract of his talk: Why don’t we admit that dangerous climate change is coming?...

On the train last week for Debby Cotton's inaugural lecture, rounding off Plymouth's 2013 PedRIO research day.   I like Inaugurals; such grand occasions when newly-minted professors have the challenge of explaining what gets them up in the morning to,...

The latest South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar was held on February 14th in Totnes.  The topic was Learning in Transition.  Appropriately, we met in the Totnes Transition Network meeting room. Ben Brangwyn opened the seminar with some background...

I gave a talk the other day to around 170 6th form students at Bath's Prior Park College which is based in and around Ralph Allen's home.  Quite a setting! Sadly, I talked in a somewhat more modern part of...

This was the title of Stephen Gough's Inaugural Lecture last Thursday in Bath.  He concluded, after an erudite tour d'horizon that it wasn't.  There was, of course, much play around nature / natural, and I noted, I think for the...

A date for everyone's dairy, I'd say.  John Foster will speak on After Sustainability :  denial, hope, retrieval on April 30th at the University of Bath as part of the I-SEE seminar series.  1600 (for tea).  This is John's Abstract: Why...