December 2015

There's an ESD event at COP21 on Thursday; perhaps you'll be there.  It's advertised as a panel discussion on “People at the heart of nature-based solutions” and it's asking the question: What is needed to unlock the power of education...

"For much of its history the American academy has been fending off the attempts of various forces to hijack the enterprise for foreign ends.  Now the invading force resides on the inside in the form of students who want colleges...

The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change – not only as a contributor to the problems of Syria, but...

Thanks to Stephen Sterling for alerting me to Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism – a report published by the National Association of Scholars [NAS] which says of it: "Sustainability” is a key idea on college campuses in the United States and...

I'm back from the south coast having seen the coastal erosion at first hand from the top of the cliffs, and watched a slurry of mud slither down a blue lias outcrop as we walked along the shore.  I managed not...

How many of the 25,000 schools in the UK will be suspending or changing the timetable for any of their students some time over the next 10 days so that they can follow and discuss COP21?  I've no idea either, but...

In my desire to find something positive about the forthcoming Paris climate talks, I turned to Buzzfeed – quite essential viewing these days, don't you find? Sure enough, COP21 was explained through the medium of Beyoncé GIFs: "The most important meeting in history...