December 2011

This is not an example of my rather tardy New Year predictions, but the title of a recent article in the Onion – and thanks to Alan Reid for pointing it out as I've not been keeping up with the...

0.679 (don’t you just love this precision) is Environmental Education Research’s impact factor in the education & educational research category of the Social Science Citation index which gives it a ranking of 88/184 – not bad for a new-comer, and...

I watched both Brian Cox and Bruce Hood on BBC 4 last night, with the promise of the best double science lesson for many years, if not ever.   As usual in these programmes, Cox flew round the world to...

Just what, exactly?  Well, I read a comment recently that ... ESD is education that addresses the inter-relatedness of social justice, ecological integrity and economics Oh, how I wish it did, but the sort of ESD that I usually come across...

Terrible pun, but a very warm welcome, anyway, to Arjen Wals's new blog: Transformative Learning.  Arjen writes: Ultimately, sustainability needs to emerge in the everyday fabric of life – in the minds of people and in the values they live by....

These should more properly be the first snowdrops of 2012, I suppose, but given that they are in bloom at the University in December, that seems premature – or precocious, maybe – possibly like the snowdrops themselves.  Some will cite...

I'm grateful to Nick Jones for the news that M&S has opened its first international sustainable learning store.  Sadly, this is in India, so I'll not be popping along any time soon, but I would were it a bit nearer...

I watched an engaging BBC4 Horizon programme last night which mostly involved theoretical cosmologists putting forward their own ideas and a few arcane diagrams, and being just ever so slightly, but fairly nicely, dismissive of those of others.  Not all...

In a discussion paper for the HEA, ESD and Inter-disciplinarity: focus and trajectories, written in preparation for yesterday's seminar: Inter-disciplinary Sustainability Education: Insights, Momentum and Futures, Alex Ryan writes: Following the work of Mezirow and developments by other educationalists, transformative learning processes generate...

I posted recently on Saudi attempts to get hold of some of the green cash that's to be given to countries that are adversely affected by the world's carbon-reduction efforts.  This, in the House of Saud's case, is to compensate...