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The NUS published two new reports this week.  One is a national status report on university investments in the fossil fuel industry (based on Freedom of Information [FoI] requests); the other is a report on student and staff attitudes towards...

The focus of the 2015 TEESNet Conference was Monitoring Education for Global Citizenship: A Contribution to Debate.  I didn't go as it seems to me that trying to introduce EGC is just as bad as encouraging ESD – that is, it diverts...

I wrote a while back about a meeting I went to about the GEEP – pronounced jeep – the Global Environmental Education Partnerships.  The website has now been launched. The idea is that GEEP is a platform where people can learn...

I dreamed the other night, in that random way you do, that I was taking tea with Mr Trump – and that I upset him by what I said, and rendered him speechless.  Not sure life can get much better than this....

As part of the Schools for Future Youth Project, a report was published in January on a youth participatory approach to global citizenship education across Europe. The report by Doug Bourn, Director of the Development Education Research Centre, at UCL,  reviews current literature, policy...

I got this the other day from the env-pol-theory Google group, and thought I should share it: We are seeking 300-500 word abstracts by March 15th, 2016 for possible inclusion into an edited collection seeking to explore the world of...

There was a message on the EE Maillist the other day, ostensibly from Brian Waswala at UNEP's Environmental Education and Training Unit in Nairobi.  It said "the Biodiversity Guide, supported by UNEP and GUPES, are asking for case studies from institutions" in the following...

This is the title of a two-page article in the Economist in early January.  It's about Ethiopia and how the country's doing these days – despite the government – and how much better off (in almost every sense) its people might...

Thanks to the NAEE blog for spotting the latest missive from the UN: The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World.  Laughably, this is a guide to how we can all save the world, without even moving from the sofa.  As NAEE notes, the UN seems...

The Routledge journal, Global Discourse, has a call for papers in a special issue devoted to the implications of climate change.  It's edited by John Foster.  The descriptor begins: It is no longer completely out of court among thinkers and scholars...