Bill Scott
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Bill Scott27 December 2011
Last snowdrops of the year
These should more properly be the first snowdrops of 2012, I suppose, but given that they are in bloom at the University in December, that seems premature – or precocious, maybe – possibly like the snowdrops themselves. Some will cite...
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Bill Scott19 December 2011
Plan A: the learning store
I'm grateful to Nick Jones for the news that M&S has opened its first international sustainable learning store. Sadly, this is in India, so I'll not be popping along any time soon, but I would were it a bit nearer...
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Bill Scott16 December 2011
Before the big bang
I watched an engaging BBC4 Horizon programme last night which mostly involved theoretical cosmologists putting forward their own ideas and a few arcane diagrams, and being just ever so slightly, but fairly nicely, dismissive of those of others. Not all...
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Bill Scott15 December 2011
Transformative learning – or is it transformative teaching?
In a discussion paper for the HEA, ESD and Inter-disciplinarity: focus and trajectories, written in preparation for yesterday's seminar: Inter-disciplinary Sustainability Education: Insights, Momentum and Futures, Alex Ryan writes: Following the work of Mezirow and developments by other educationalists, transformative learning processes generate...
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Bill Scott12 December 2011
The road out of Durban
I posted recently on Saudi attempts to get hold of some of the green cash that's to be given to countries that are adversely affected by the world's carbon-reduction efforts. This, in the House of Saud's case, is to compensate...
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Bill Scott10 December 2011
Transforming, reforming, or (merely) evolving?
In a brief, but aptly thoughtful, 'Thinkpiece' for the 2009 Universities that Count annual report, Stephen Sterling makes a distinction between universities whose sustainability-focused work might be seen as reformist in nature, and those where this might be viewed as...
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Bill Scott10 December 2011
Dispatches from the Harmony front line
In what I should confess is a desultory fashion, I have been following the outpourings from COP17 in Durban, and this caught my eye: Second Committee Approves Text on Harmony with Nature As my eyes are drawn to texts on...
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Bill Scott8 December 2011
Successful day out in Bicton
An enjoyable day at Bicton College in Devon today. The SWLSC 'Coalition' held its first seminar of the 2011/12 year with the theme of 'beyond the KPI'. This used a collaborative format where 6 of us gave short (5 to...
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Bill Scott1 December 2011
Keeping an eye on COP17
Thanks to the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, you can listen in to some of the key figures at COP17 in Durban. It's on You Tube. Head of UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, kicked it off.
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Bill Scott1 December 2011
The Winter’s Come
Sweet chestnuts brown like soleing-leather turn, The larch trees, like the colour of the sun That paled sky in the Autumn seem’d to burn. What a strange scene before us now does run Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black and...