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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 because this has been seen as a contributor to...

Another day, and there's yet another ESD conference in an exotic location.  This one's in that part of Spain that is forever British.  No, not Ibiza – Gibraltar. The breathless strapline for this event (I'll not be going) is: Universities as Beacons of...

This is a controversial issue as the UK government unwinds the subsidies available for the installation of renewable energy, although subsidies for coal (etc) remain in place.  A new Circulate report explores the issue.  It begins: "The short answer to this...

Whilst everyone seems to acknowledge that there are problems with GDP as a measure of (changing) economic activity, there are no clear ways out of the difficulty.  For example, whilst pollution may be, generally speaking, a bad thing, it can...

On Tuesday 10 May, Julian Agyeman, from Tufts University in the USA, will be speaking at the Watershed in Bristol on: Sharing Cities.  He'll be exploring his latest book, explaining how the concept of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart...

The World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be held in Manchester from the 5th to 7th of April, 2017.  It is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and the...

There are some journalists whose work I always try to read, and Timothy Garton Ash is one of them.  I find his civilised, liberal, historically-grounded analysis of contemporary issues valuable in my own sense-making.  He wrote at the end of last...

The Guardian reports that Johannes Haushofer, who is assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, has published an alternative CV of his career failures up to now.  Publishing an anti-cv like this might, of course, just result in his adding...

The 2016 Nature Connections conference in Derby in June has the theme of Getting Connected to Nature.  Whilst I quite fancy going because of the theme and topics to be discussed, looking at how stuffed full of brief inputs the programme is, suggests that I'd only get...

I see that UCU and NUS have a conference coming up in Manchester on May 13th: The role of education institutions in tackling climate change UCU says: "On Friday 21 April  2016 the Paris climate agreement was signed in New...