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  • What happened when Dave asked Gareth "a corker of a question"

    EAUC 's Food for Thought last Friday afternoon was about a question posed to blogger Gareth Kane ( Ask Gareth ...) by Dave Moreman, a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University.  Moreman asked:  How can I teach sustainability when I live unsustainably? The first thing Kane did...

  • Polli:Nation – nice title

    The University of Stirling has for a full-time PhD studentship that will involve evaluating and researching aspects of a school-based citizen science and environmental education project: Polli:Nation – Citizen Science and Environmental Education in the School Grounds . This involves schools...

  • New Standards in Australian HE

    There are new national standards for Environment and Sustainability in higher education across Australia whose role is to "support the design and delivery of innovative higher education in the Environment and Sustainability field".  They are included in the newly published Learning and...

  • Costing the Earth whilst wasting an opportunity

    I listened to last week's Costing the Earth with mounting frustration as it failed to live up to its normal high standards.  The podcast is here. The show came from a foodie event in Green Bristol.  It was billed as a debate,...

  • Plymouth comes of age

    It was good to see Plymouth doing so well in the THE Under 50s league table published recently.  I hope all that sustainability stuff they focus on so well has been part of this. The THE says: This is a ranking of...

  • Has your child had its SMSC today?

    SMSC?  What's that, you might be saying.  If you are, you're as out of touch as I am (or was).  It's the thing in schools, it seems.  Although it looks rather as if it might be a food supplement [ Take SMSC everyday for...

  • ecotricity goes into the manifesto business

    ecotricity has launched its 2030 vision/manifesto for the Green Britain it thinks we should be living in.  Using research and modelling from Cambridge Econometrics, a consultancy, ecotricity sets out what Britain would be like in 2030 if we adopt ambitious targets for emissions reduction, renewables...

  • A poor election campaign for environmental consciousness

    In Wednesday's Guardian, Tom Burke commented on the contrast between the large membership of environment-focused organisations in the UK (4.5 million members, 13% of the population: 10 times as many supporters as all the political parties combined) and the near silence...

  • More manifesto reading

    Thanks to the SDRN for pointing out that Carbon Brief has produced an interactive online tracker that captures information from UK party manifestos on energy and climate change.  This allows us to see comparisons of energy and climate change policy, including key...

  • Election Manifestos – Take 9; UKIP

    This is my last word on election manifestos.  It has been a dispiriting experience, all told.  I'm going to give the last word to TEESNet and its summarising of a party I have, so far, omitted ... UKIP Reduce the volume of paperwork...