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The Crying Indian – keeping America beautiful
Did you ever see the iconic advert for litter involving Iron Eyes Cody? I didn't either at the time, but it's here, along with a feature by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on the many confusions around [i] the idea of...
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Bye then People 'n' Planet
It seems that the People 'n' Planet league table of universities, with its arr[og]ant 'degree' classifications, may have gone the way of all flesh. Those who say they know about such matters think it's a dundeal. P&P probably got tired of...
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ESD is "a priority" for Commonwealth Nations
A recent report from UNESCO UK said that "ESD is increasing its profile in the Commonwealth". It seems that, at the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (in the Bahamas from 22 to 26 June – must have been nice), education ministers from...
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Midnight in Paris: will COP 21 make a difference?
To London yesterday, to the LSE, to hear Professor Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication, and he...
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Making the Cut
I was ridiculously pleased to see that one of my papers made it into EER's Virtual Special Issue on studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy. Here is the VSI's editorial by Katrien Van Poeck (Ghent) and Jonas A. Lysgaard (Aarhus), in which they...
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More on the 2015 NUS / Change Agents / HEA survey
I commented yesterday on the latest 2015 survey of student and employer attitudes towards (and skills for) sustainable development in HE. HEA has managed to overcome its institutional malaise and published it (sort of) – inexplicably you still cannot download the whole...
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Latest student and employer survey results from NUS
The latest NUS survey (with Change Agents and the HEA) of student and employer attitudes towards (and skills for) sustainable development in HE has been published. You cannot access it here, because the HEA's link doesn't work. A metaphor, I...
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Beyond ESD: but not at the sharp end
Learning from the sharp end – implications for sustainability in Higher Education is an international symposium taking place today and tomorrow in Bristol. It seems to be trying to go 'beyond ESD', for which much praise. It is jointly organised by University...
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Missing higher education award
How odd that the categories in THE's Higher Education awards have no room for anything to do with sustainability. The list is here: Excellence and Innovation in the Arts Outstanding Digital Innovation in Teaching or Research Research Project of the Year Outstanding Employer...
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Completing the survey should take no more than 15 minutes
When an unsolicited survey from an academic lands in your inbox, and says something like this, you know it's not going to be true, but you do hope that it will be a reasonable estimate. The purpose of this particular...
