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How to "integrate ESD into disciplines" within HE seems a topical issue, at least amongst those who see "promoting ESD" as being important, as opposed, say, to changing curricula.  However, I think it's possibly (ie, probably) the wrong question.  I...

I remember going to the launch of the East Midlands Region Centre of Expertise [RCE], way back in 2007 (where I remember giving one of the worst talks of my life).  Since then, a number of RCEs have been set...

Learn from Nature has a link to an Bill Maher's US TV show where Bill McKibbon, and his host, set about a couple of climate change deniers.   BMcK had some great lines: his natural capital question about Iowa, for...

At a Food Growing in Schools Task Force conference the other week, there was something of a minor spat about the 3Rs, and the word "wroughting", a concept I first came across in the context of Industry Year, in 1986....

Now that the QAA has embraced ESD – or so we're told, and HEFCE has spent a fortune encouraging / exploring / enabling this – I expect its fortunes (ESD's that is) to diminish even further.  Having experienced the QAA's...

I have, at last, run out of excuses for not looking at the phenomenon that is Blue Marble.  I note that the Untidy Britain Group is now part of this, as the latest BM Mag notes ... The need for...

We are encouraged to take both the Copernicus Alliance, and EAUC's LiFE (Learning in Future Environments), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there is something to be gained by...

Defra is consulting on a new SD indicator set.  So far, there have only been 80 responses and the consultation closes on October 15th. There are now 12 provisional headline indicators [ HI ] that are meant to be high-level outcome...

... when the EAUC treats with the EDG on November 14th. Although meeting the diminished Clegg may now be a turn-off rather than the turn-on he once was, don't worry because he may not even be there. It's a proven,...

Another excursion yesterday into the slightly surreal and often intermittent world of the Skype conference call; six people in 4 locations.  It worked remarkably well, thanks in no small part to the computer moderator and everyone's patience.  I thought of...