April 2012

This week saw the publication of the 2013 Complete University Guide.  This categories universities into sets of league tables according to entry standards, student satisfaction, research assessment and graduate prospects, etc.  The raw data come from public sources. One thing...

A recent report for UNESCO that looked at the main lessons learned from ESD practice in the UK concluded that "ESD is misunderstood."  This seems entirely the wrong way round to me: People find ESD impossible to understand, more like. Here's a...

Today, 22 April 2012, is International Mother Earth Day.  The UN says: The proclamation of 22 April as International Mother Earth Day is an acknowledgement that the Earth and its ecosystems provide its inhabitants with life and sustenance.  It also...

This was the title of a recent Economist piece on electric cars in the US – actually, on why the sales of all-electric cars or hybrids haven't taken off (despite high fuel costs), and on why what is claimed for...

I'm watching part of the recent White House summit on Environmental Education on You Tube.  Worth a view if only for the unusual introduction by moderator Marcia McNutt to the Panel on 21st Century Environmentalism: Shaping the Emerging Vision for Environmental...

A really enjoyable day in Plymouth, yesterday, at the first PedRIO conference where I chaired a session on sustainability and learning which explored a range of interconnected research topics carried out within the University. Joanna Blake and Stephen Sterling talked...

Probably, I'd say, and the bloke sitting on this rock certainly looks as if he's running that risk. Thanks to Learn from Nature for alerting me to this long list of possible reasons why contact with nature is a good thing....

I made a short presentation on "Aims and the Curriculum" at the recent South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar which focused on forthcoming changes to national and school curriculums.  The meeting looked in particular at the recent expert panel report...

In a mailing to the SHED-SHARE network last week, Manchester's Adele Aubrey wrote: "... Daisaku Ikeda actually proposed the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.  ... Ikeda believes the decade of education for sustainable development should be promoted with the...

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her...