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The presentations in the second Symposium session were: Research in Higher Education for Sustainable Development – Current Trends and Approaches Matthias Barth (University of Applied Sciences, Ostwestfalen-Lippe) & Marco Rieckmann (University of Vechta) Implementing ESE in education systems. Researching the...

Yesterday's presentations in the first Symposium session were: Education for Sustainable Development in School Contexts – Transformations and Translations Katrine Dahl Madsen (University of Aarhus) Research Priorities for Environmental Education in the UK, Europe and beyond Stephen Gough & Elsa...

After a gap of many years, I am at the European Conference on Educational Research in Istanbul.  The pull of this year's event was the first meeting of a new grouping: Research on Environmental and Sustainability Education [ESE].  Another anachrocnym, I...

I was contacted the other day by someone I didn't know who wrote: "I am researching for student resources and found this page here psi.org.uk/ehb/projectsbarratt.html and I wanted to see if you were the person that manages this page. I have...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has initiated a number of processes to help devise the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will maxise benefit for humanity during the years 2015-2030.  One of these, the sustainable development solutions network (SDSN) has identified ten...

... carried a piece by Dan O'Neill recently on a post-growth economy in France. I’ve recently returned from France’s first high-level “beyond growth” event, entitled An Innovative Society for the 21st Century. The conference, which included five separate sessions for the 250...

Years ago, I saw a grainy VHS video that explored the wide range of primary schools that existed in Rhode Island.  What struck me was their diversity and how parents could choose a school to fit with how they thought...

The ever-alert Learn from Nature pointed me to an article in a recent Observer on how the rate of climate change is likely to outstrip nature's speed of adaptation.  The article reports a paper in Ecology Letters, an on-line journal,...

I represent the South West learning for Sustainability Coalition on the English Learning and Sustainability Alliance [ELSA] development group.  This is a comment by ELSA to the EAC's current review of Sustainability in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills [BIS]....

The Keep Britain Untidy group has released a report: Eco-Schools England: exploring success to inform a new horizon. This is the gist of the Executive Summary: In February 2013, Keep Britain Untidy commissioned independent research into the Eco-Schools programme.  This research...