Talks and Presentations

This was an 1894 headline in The Times, warning of the doom to come.  It features in a YouTube video by the authors of Resource Revolution: How to capture the biggest business opportunity in a century. The horse problem is now...

... and the world will be a nicer place. That seemed to be the message from one of the presentations I listened to at the Primary Education: what is and what might be conference last Friday.  The excellent event was...

Here is Jorgan Randers on what to do about the environmental crisis we are in.  The pdf is adapted from his 2012 lecture in the 10th Annual Distinguished Lecture Series in Sustainable Development, hosted by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability...

Today's post is by Stephen Martin who attended the inaugural WWF Living Planet Lecture, that took place at the Royal Society on November 3rd, where the guest speakers included Sir David Attenborough and Professor Johan Rockstrom.  Steve writes: Professor Johan Rockstrom was the main...

Here's a link to another of the thoughts from Morgan Phillips about his time with NAAEE in Madison.  This is how it begins: "The NAAEE Annual Conference is in its 45th year, fourteen years ago conference decided it needed to...

I see that there's another dodgy-sounding symposium in Manchester next March.  Its prolix title is: Symposium on Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities: teaching approaches, methods, examples and case studies The dreary blurb says: "One of the major barriers to...

I went to a seminar on Cross-Generational Understandings of Environment and Climate Change: public attitudes, education and international experience at Pembroke College, Cambridge, the other week.  It was good to be back in the Fens, even if the fast train from Tottenham...

This the prolix title of an international conference in London on 12/13 December at the LSE.   It's asking: Why should governments care about people’s wellbeing, and How would policy change if raising wellbeing was the objective? The conference blurb says:...

In preparation for a Cambridge PhD seminar later this week, organised by the splendid Elsa Lee, I've been asked to prepare a ... "5 minute introduction that gives a flavour of your worldview (broadly conceived to include your axiological, ontological and...

On Tuesday 10 May, Julian Agyeman, from Tufts University in the USA, will be speaking at the Watershed in Bristol on: Sharing Cities.  He'll be exploring his latest book, explaining how the concept of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart...