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Last month SEEd organised a letter to Michael Gove.  This is a response from Joan Walley, MP, Chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) ... To the Signatories of the ‘Keep Sustainability in the National Curriculum Objectives’...

In 2012, Defra proposed a new set of sustainable development indicators, intended to measure national progress on key economic, social and environmental issues over time and complement the National well-being measures published by the Office for National Statistics.  There was...

On a recent pilgrimage to Norfolk I was sidetracked by visiting a micro brewery near to Walsingham.  It was an inspiring place, sustainability speaking. The barley was grown in adjacent fields and malted locally, the water came from the brewery's...

As I noted in a PS to my original blog about weec7, the event culminated in the Call of Marrakech, which ENSI desribes as ... "giving express to concerns and visions for the future of Environmental Education and Education for...

I wrote the other day about the funding letter from Hefce to the HEA.  What's not in the letter, but on the Hefce website, is this text about a forthcoming review of the HEA: In the light of the changes since the last...

Positive news, it would seem, on the national climate curriculum change [sic] front.  I'm grateful to NAEE's Sarah Simmons for the alert to the Guardian on Friday which reported: Michael Gove abandons plans to drop climate change from curriculum: climate change will...

Here's a cheery video from Cambridge looking at the impact of one of their green initiatives.  But where are the academics? If you follow the on-screen credits, and freeze the last screen, you see who's involved – and not so...

I commented earlier in the year on the new Stonehenge – well, the new super-English-Heritage-at-its-very-best visitor centre, which I think we should be calling the Neocentre.  As it nears completion, I'm told by the ever-reliable and insightful, World Heritage Trails...

Slightly fizzy wine flowed in Elsevier's offices last week celebrating the rise in the impact factor of the Journal of Cleaner Production from 2.727 in 2011 to 3.398 in 2012.  Or so I infer from the excited report that the...

I had a day in the Holy of Holies last week – the Royal Institution.   An exhausting whole day, sitting, at least in a ghostly sense, alongside the likes of Davy, Faraday, Dewar, Bragg, Kelvin,  Jeans, Hoyle,  Rutherford, ......