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I spent a stimulating few hours earlier this week with two visiting researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies.  They came to the UK to look at policies and practices around environmental education of all things.  How refreshing. Bath was their...

The UN University has issued a report on resilience in socio-ecological production landscape indicators (SEPLs) that were developed between Bioversity International and the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). The report begins by defining the terminology of SEPLs, resilience, and the...

The news that the OECD’s PISA education league tables will include a measure on global competences in 2018 must come as a relief to those responsible for school education across Wales, as – of course – it will mean that...

As I have noted before (see this), English Heritage has been building some new neolithic houses at its Stonehenge visitor centre.  This has involved volunteers from a range of backgrounds, possessing (and learning) an equally diverse range of skills.  Clearly,...

Should ESD be about sustainable development at all? An odd question to ask, perhaps, and many will think the response a no-brainer, as we watch coasts crumble and sea levels rise, the skies grow darker yet, and poverty and injustice...

The Guardian reports that university researchers recommend saying global warming rather than climate change if you want to influence Americans.  The two terms are often used interchangeably but they generate very different responses, according to researchers from Yale and George Mason Universities....

In an FT [1] review of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, by David Harvey, and Utopia or Bust: a guide to the present crisis, by Benjamin Kunkel, Martin Sandbu raises a point about the viewing of difficult and...

The Guardian reports that a study sponsored by the UK government has cast doubt on the effectiveness of Fairtrade in East Africa.  Generally, the study found, wages were higher on farms that were larger, commercial and not Fairtrade-certified.  Even comparing...

... would you spend it on WL (F)'s new book?  Me neither, even though it has been digitally water-marked.   The book, according to the normally reliable SDRN, is "... published as part of the award-winning ‘Climate Change Management Series’, led by...

There was a headline in the Guardian recently which ran: Global school tests under attack as OECD accused of killing 'joy of learning' It began:  Leading academics have accused the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of acting as...