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I was reminded the other day of a piece that Elsa Lee and I wrote back in 2008: Intergenerational Learning: the case of school to home transfer.   This was written when there was something of a vogue for getting children to...

There was a piece in the Economist last week that looked at an OECD / University of Utrecht account of the conditions of life in 25 countries since 1820.   A part of this says: For the most part, the findings...

The NUS, which is an organisation that clearly does much good, is fond of citing the following outcomes of their on-going survey * of student attitudes about HE and sustainable development: Around two-thirds of students [say that they] would be willing...

In the Summer, the Economist's Free Exchange column had a feature on the economics of renewable energy which suggested that the costs of wind and (especially) solar power are much more problematic that thought.   The article begins: "... whereas...

I spend more time than ever in London these days experiencing the joys and thrills of grandparenting.  No matter how fulfilling, however, it always leads to a bout of SILS – Spending Time In London Syndrome. This is a deep psychological...

This is the latest from Think Global's Chief Executive, promoting a Members’ Lunch and AGM on November 6th (1230 ...) "I’m really pleased to say that our [AGM] guest speakers will be Newman Burdett, Head of Centre for International Comparisons, and...

Those smart folk at People & Planet have agreed with a suggestion from EAUC and AUDE that data should be collected by EAUC / AUDE for use in post-2014 green league tables.  How many micro-seconds did it take P&P to decide to accept, I wonder, and could...

I wrote recently about a dire presentation at the recent ECER conference where ESD was taken to task for being overly-anthropocentric.  The speaker, Helen Kopnina of the University of Amsterdam and the Hague University of Applied Science, spoke up for...

The Plymouth Herald – essential reading, I find – recently reported that the city's University had splashed out a sum not unadjacent to £150k on 7 Chairs.   "Gosh", that's cheap, I thought.  I know professors are poorly paid, but really,...

Peter Harper, variously of the Centre for Alternative Technology, Schumacher College, and the University of Bath is presenting a lecture tonight at BRLSI on Energy: Fairness, Physics and Sustainability.  This is the blurb: The atmosphere is a shared resource.  Therefore the...