December 2011

In a brief, but aptly thoughtful, 'Thinkpiece' for the 2009 Universities that Count annual report, Stephen Sterling makes a distinction between universities whose sustainability-focused work might be seen as reformist in nature, and those where this might be viewed as...

In what I should confess is a desultory fashion, I have been following the outpourings from COP17 in Durban, and this caught my eye: Second Committee Approves Text on Harmony with Nature As my eyes are drawn to texts on...

An enjoyable day at Bicton College in Devon today.  The SWLSC 'Coalition' held its first seminar of the 2011/12 year with the theme of 'beyond the KPI'.  This used a collaborative format where 6 of us gave short (5 to...

Thanks to the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, you can listen in to some of the key figures at COP17 in Durban.  It's on You Tube.  Head of UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, kicked it off.

Sweet chestnuts brown like soleing-leather turn, The larch trees, like the colour of the sun That paled sky in the Autumn seem’d to burn. What a strange scene before us now does run Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black and...

I spotted this on the Taylor & Francis website Typical CO2 emissions from schools in England are rising, despite reductions to their heating demands, because of an increase in electricity consumption, according to new research published in the ‘Building Research...