December 2012

An email yesterday from the SDE Network in Scotland, announcing a new year conference.  It said: We are delighted to formally invite you to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Conference jointly hosted by the Scottish Government and...

Recent reports, in New Scientist amongst other sources, say that the Chinese are adapting to circular economy ideas.  Here is a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation itself, including this link to ChinaDaily which reports ... The park includes three "recycling...

I spent an enjoyable hour on Friday afternoon last week watching a dozen or so student videos that Simon Kemp kindly alerted the SHED network to. Simon wrote ... I would like to alert you to our ‘Sustainability Film Festival’...

I wrote a while ago about the re-birth of the Sustainable Schools Alliance.   A proposed management board for the Alliance met two weeks ago.  It was a good turn out with a good mix of organisations around the table, including: Anglian...

I have been watching the run-away train that is the government's new energy bill as it careers towards us.  I've thought all along, as I have listened to rumour and leaks, that, surely, no one could be so stupid as...

One of the problems of trying to be an environmental educator is how do you take the need for social and economic change seriously when you're addressing the environment. It seems axiomatic that this has to be done, one way...

The report of the Hefce project Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability: Strategic Approaches to Quality Enhancement has emerged.  Judging by the mail message announcing this, its writers are pleased with it.  It will, of course, be a "great success" and make...

Browsing the Guardian, I came across John Jerrim's 2011 (but suddenly very topical) report for the Institute of Education: England’s “plummeting” PISA test scores between 2000 and 2009: Is the performance of our secondary school pupils really in relative decline? Here’s the...

DBIS has announced that its funding the the Learning and Skills Improvement service will come to an end in August 2013.  This is the last of a series of cuts in recent years.  LSIS has confirmed that it will cease...

I have been reading Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change, a new book edited by Arjen Wals & Peter Corcoran, and published by Wageningen Academic Publishers.   Here's my review ... This is an ambitious book, and is weighty...