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After Sustainability Denial, Hope, Retrieval is a new book by John Foster.  The blurb says: Dangerous climate change is coming. Some people still deny that it is happening, others that it is now too late to prevent it. Both denials spring...

You can still come across poor presentations at conferences, and often these are not because of incompetence, but owing to a poor attitude towards the audience, one that is frequently rooted in insecurity. I sat through an ECER presentation of...

The transport system is so good here, and my expectations of it, so low, that I arrived at my first meeting over twenty minutes early.  I then made the mistake of looking at my map for the building I was...

This is an extract from the latest e-message from Think Global’s Chief Executive, Tom Franklin: As you may know, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be including ‘Global Competence’ in its ‘PISA’ international measurement of different countries’ education...

I am at the ECER conference in Porto – my last.  This is the first full meeting of the new Network 30 – environmental and sustainability education research, which has been guided into existence by the commendable Per Sund. The...

The girls and boys who run People & Planet have always tended to take themselves rather too seriously, falling into the trap of thinking that their Green League has had far more influence than it really has; they have also been far...

There's a new report from the HEA on: The Role of Hefce in Teaching and Learning Enhancement: A Review of Evaluative Evidence.  It does not make good reading. This report was commissioned by the HEA in 2013 at Hefce's request, with the...

I watched the TV debates between the YES and NO campaigns for the break up of the UK out of a sense of duty – in part to see how many mentions sustainability got. Well, I heard two – sort of. First,...

It's good to be back.  The Daily Telegraph, every-ready to bash the BBC, has splashed an hysterical story about corn cockle [Agrrostemma githago] seeds being distributed in packages c/o Kew Gardens and the Countryfile programme.   You'd think the country...

I finally said it out loud, and in a reasonably public place: that I think of zoos, safari parks and the like, as little better than prisons.  This view has been a long time coming but I know when it...