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I was ridiculously pleased to see that one of my papers made it into EER's Virtual Special Issue on studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy. Here is the VSI's editorial by Katrien Van Poeck (Ghent) and Jonas A. Lysgaard (Aarhus), in which they...

I commented yesterday on the latest 2015 survey of student and employer attitudes towards (and skills for) sustainable development in HE.  HEA has managed to overcome its institutional malaise and published it (sort of) – inexplicably you still cannot download the whole...

The latest NUS survey (with Change Agents and the HEA) of student and employer attitudes towards (and skills for) sustainable development in HE has been published.  You cannot access it here, because the HEA's link doesn't work.  A metaphor, I...

Learning from the sharp end – implications for sustainability in Higher Education is an international symposium taking place today and tomorrow in Bristol.  It seems to be trying to go 'beyond ESD', for which much praise.  It is jointly organised by University...

How odd that the categories in THE's Higher Education awards have no room for anything to do with sustainability.  The list is here: Excellence and Innovation in the Arts Outstanding Digital Innovation in Teaching or Research Research Project of the Year Outstanding Employer...

When an unsolicited survey from an academic lands in your inbox, and says something like this, you know it's not going to be true, but you do hope that it will be a reasonable estimate. The purpose of this particular...

That's now the Economist titled its recent Erasmus blog on Islam and Ecology. It ends: "... the very nature of environmental challenges gives a certain integrity to eco-religious discussions.  Rising sea levels, melting glaciers and expanding deserts will affect everybody, regardless...

The €ureaucrat responsible for climate change within the EU, Miguel Arias Canete [ surely, it cannot all be his fault ], says that the forthcoming (or so optimists think) United Nations’ climate deal (which is supposed to be a triomphe pour President Hollande) should be...

No, not the police, but the Office, which I wrote about last week.  Here are a couple of other perspectives: from Christopher Booker, and from The Conversation, which a colleague in New Zealand alerted me to.  Oddly, I did not...

This video about the birth of giant panda twins in Washington is X-rated stuff, and almost beyond satire.  Surely any species that needs sperm donors, artificial insemination, and multiple midwives is beyond saving.