December 2017

So, how do the SDGs map onto the Daly & Meadows model?  Here's a first approximation ... Wellbeing – is the Ultimate End – happiness, fulfillment & enlightenment – to be achieved through ethics Goals: – ?3: Good Health and Well-Being   Human and Social...

As part of my reflections on last week's St George's House consultation, here are a few thoughts about schools and the SDGs: If we’re to think about what schools might do in relation to the goals, it’s important to think...

I wrote yesterday about the Stockholm Resilience Centre's disappointing wedding cake model which attempts to create a convincing case for viewing the SDGs as a coherent whole.  I say disappointing because it fundamentally misrepresents the human society – human economy relationship...

The St George's House consultation was valuable in many ways.  One unexpected outcome for me was coming across (thanks, Paul Vare) the Stockholm Resilience Centre's Wedding Cake model of the SDGs.  It's here. The Centre says: This model changes our...

The St. George's House consultation on the SDGs is over.  It was stimulating. It seems clear to me that young people can be helped to think about global issues at at early age, and then to be helped to build...

I am still at St George's House, Windsor, at a consultation about young people and the sustainable development goals.  This is, amongst other things, considering two propositions: Goal-related learning by students can help increase the likelihood that the goals will...