May 2017

I see that NAEE had an article the other day about the merger of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) and FACE (Farming and Countryside Education), and the combined charity is looking for a Director, Education & Public Engagement who will … “lead and execute an...

I got a report from EAUC last week: Next Generation Sustainability Strategy and Structure: Whole-Institution Approaches to Sustainability in Universities and Colleges.  This was the second sentence: "We work to reposition the agenda at the heart of the leadership and structure of sector...

The Greener Jobs Alliance has published its top 10 Election Demands: Keep the Climate Change Act 2008. Stick to the UK’s legally binding commitments to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 as a minimum. Ensure that UK...

The programme for the WEEC event in Vancouver in September is becoming clearer, and credit is obviously due to the organisers for taking Canada's rich cultural heritage seriously – at least as far as keynote speakers are concerned.  You can...

I mentioned the other day that the Australians had had an SDG summit last year.  Here are some of things the report had to say about education: Page 5 Universities and the academic sector have a role to play through...

I've been reading the latest report from the Varkey Foundation on what Generation Z thinks about life, the universe, Brexit, etc.  It's here. Some of it is concerning: only 17% of young people report good overall physical wellbeing in 16 out...

There was a picture in a recent Guardian of a boy with two potatoes firmly impaled on a garden fork.  The caption is: "A pupil at Coastlands Community primary school in Pembrokeshire shows there’s a real appetite for growing food.  Schools are...

A rare event these days; I've had a new paper published – on Taylor & Francis Online in a special issue of the journal Global Discourse, edited by John Foster.  It's in response to a paper by Steve Gough in...

Here's an extract from the report of the inaugural UK SDGs Summit that was held last autumn. The Inaugural UK SDGs Summit The new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which came into effect on 1 January 2016, are a...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values was finally published in 1974 after being turned down by 121 publishers.  This remains a record for a successful book. I have read it at least twice.  The first...