July 2017

If you click here, you'll find the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's 2017 Summit highlights playlist, and see designer & sociologist Leyla Acaroglu, IDEO's Tim Brown, The Sustainable Food Trust's Patrick Holden, and other 'thought leaders' (a phrase I dislike), "discussing shifting mindsets,...

I see that one of the behemoths of the corporate world has, at last, been shamed [well done Greenpeace] into doing something about the waste it creates through the consumption of its products.  Its solution is to re-invent the idea...

I was asked the other day for a comment on this: "EE can help achieve the SDGs”.  This is obviously an important idea, but for me it begs a prior question: how can (and does) education (broadly conceived) help achieve the...

I got this the other day from the local Community Policing Team: There has been a significant shift in the way we manage our demand within the Police Service. The Community Policing Model recognises that the Police service is being asked...

I had an email from Transformative Learning the other day.  It said: What is the role and responsibility of education to not only respond to sustainability problems, but also to prevent them and create more sustainable futures?  This (which isn't...

An email from Routledge the other day telling me that one of my papers (Scott, Reid and Gough) from 2002 had suddenly been published on-line in Planet. This is the Abstract: This paper derives from a contribution we made to the Council...

I had a nice email the other day offering me some work.  Maybe you did too.  It was from EditSprings "where you can make use of your scholarly attainments and English skill for paper editing with payment in your spare time"....

I'm off to spend 10 days with Frau Dr Merkel soon – well, not with her exactly, although wherever you are in Germany the good doctor is never far away.  She controls every traffic light, for example.  A busy woman –...

I have spent the last 6 working days in a local town council chamber, attending a planning Inquiry, diligently sitting quietly at the back whilst a government inspector considered the merits of an appeal by two housing developers against the...

And here's another 8th blog birthday posting – from July 13th 2009. The government’s target is that all English schools will be sustainable by 2020.  Although it's not clear what this will actually have to mean in practice, it does suggest...