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Having your cake and eating other people's
This Michael Leunig cartoon wafted its way from Australia the other day. My reaction was: doesn't this satirise affluent developed-economy lifestyles, especially those enjoyed by my generation, rather than the idea (or, for some, ideal) of sustainability? On being provoked to...
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John Clare day
In Monday's Guardian, George Monbiot suggested that today ought to be John Clare Day (his birth date in 1793). Well, fine by me, and I'd join any queue to be the first to agree with this. Monbiot's argument is that John...
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The university contribution to the green economy
The Guardian last Friday carried a story from the CBI about the current contribution of green growth to the UK economy. The headline was: Choice between 'green or growth' is a false one, CBI chief says. The CBI's chief executive,...
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The most comprehensive publication on sustainability at universities ever produced
This is not my claim; I'm just passing it on. It comes from Walter Leal (Filho) and describes the forthcoming book: Sustainable Development at Universities: new horizons – edited by Walter Leal. This arises from the "World Symposium on Sustainable...
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ESD in the UK national archives
If you enter "environmental education" into a UK National Archive search you come up with 20 entries that start in 1972 with items about EE in Bournemouth and in Doncaster. Prominent entries relate to the Belgrade and Tbilisi conferences. Most...
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Higgs, Higgs, glorious Higgs
I was going to write about the latest IAU Horizons magazine and its welcome (if overdue) focus on the contribution of higher education to sustainable development (actually, the focus was mostly on ESD) – and, sadly, on its awful proof-reading,...
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More red flags needed in Wiltshire
I'm told it will soon be Wiltshire Council policy that all pedestrians in the county are to be kept at least 50 metres away from cars travelling at 50 kph, and farther away from those travelling at higher speeds. There...
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Engaging visitors from Tel Aviv
A pleasure yesterday to be part of a South west Learning for Sustainability Coalition team welcoming visitors from the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership in Tel Aviv to the University of Bath. The Center is: "dedicated to building...
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When the Amazon is gone we'll have 40% less atmospheric oxygen
I received an email Network Link newsletter from UNESCO UK the other day, and was pleased to see that it contained a number of references to education, including two focused on sustainability. One was about ESD in Practice: To raise...
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George Monbiot on despair, hope and action
This is the end of George Monbiot’s piece in the Guardian the other day: … That we have missed the chance of preventing two degrees of global warming now seems obvious. That most of the other planetary boundaries will be...
