October 2015

  • GEEP 7 – last words and Donald Trump

    We met for the last time yesterday morning to think about where & what next.  The aim was to take some of the residual fuzziness out of the GEEP concept, and to allow development to continue.  Someone had the idea that GEEP should...

  • GEEP – 6 – Tag Lines

    It's Thursday morning in San Diego.  The sun has risen over Downtown, and another warm day looms.  Just the sort of day to spend in air conditioned frigidity indoors – whilst all the time saying how important it is to...

  • GEEP – 5 – what's it all about?

    The first GEEP day ended with delegates still searching for some illusive final clarity about goals, objectives and strategies.  It's still not clear whether GEEP does things, or (just) enables others to do things.  Rather inevitably, with so many people from...

  • GEEP – 4 – and so it begins

    I'm about to go down for a GEEP (pronounced Jeep it seems) working breakfast, which – at 0830 – is far too late for me, as I saw the sun rise over the Downtown skyline quite a while back. People...

  • Postcard to COP21

    The following text is doing the rounds of those interested in ESD, etc, etc, to ask them to get on board to put pressure on governments attending the COP21.  Basically, it's saying, in a very long-winded way, that higher education...

  • COP-out 21

    The UN has published a much reduced draft document for the COP21 meeting in Paris.  It is now reduced (from ~90) to 20 pages, plus 3 supplementary ones on ways to increase countries’ emissions-cutting targets before 2020. The text would commits governments...

  • GEEP – 3 – a country needs survey

    As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation.  The first I published yesterday.  This is the second of them: a country needs survey....

  • GEEP – 2 – an overview of issues facing the UK

    As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation.  This is the first of them: an overview of environmental education [EE] issues in...

  • GEEP – 1 – the Global Environmental Education Partnership

    I've been invited to the next meeting of the GEEP: Global Environmental Education Partnership.  Its draft goals, objectives and strategy are to: 1: Build capacity in member countries to develop and support quality EE The objectives are to: identify and share...

  • The US way of doing things

    It is always fascinating to read about how other countries do things.  Under the heading: EE Advocacy Summer Successes and an Invitation to Participate, the North American Association of Environmental Education [NAAEE] says this about Environmental Education in the USA: "Environmental Education...