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This arrived the other day, care of the SHED SHARE mail server: Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate your advice and input regarding a brief ESD sheet I have been asked to complete.  UNESCO is hosting meeting in Bonn later this month...

That's Les (VC & Prof) Ebdon, who might yet not be the new director of OFFA, and Vince (the once and future sage of Twickenham) Cable who might yet appoint him as such – or will he? OFFA is the...

There is a tension in the educational work of sustainability-focused non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that is not usually present in schools or other formal educational providers – although they have tensions enough of their own to be going on with. Unlike...

I've been an admirer of the work of NVCO for a while now, and have found its ideas and publications very useful on occasions.  I was browsing their website the other day, after a Coalition meeting – not that coalition...

In one of the many unsolicited emails (I love them really) I received the other morning, this was included as a postscript: In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and...

Last week, The Scotsman carried a story that the Labour party north of the Wall has changed its mind about universal free higher education. The paper reported: Shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran attacked the First Minister’s stance on higher education...

In 1979, Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools [HMI] published a supplementary working paper on environmental education as part of their reporting on Curriculum 11 – 16 in England.  The paper was written after Tbilisi, and it references both this and...

I have been reading Lester Brown's Introduction [ The World on the Edge ] to the 4th GUNI [ Global Universities Network for Innovation ] report: Higher Education in the World 4, Higher Education's Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action'....

The new publication from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (with McKinsey) got an airing in Davos at the WEF ahead of its launch today, and was reported on the BBC. It's a credit to the interviewer that he got to the...

Rather belatedly, I discover that Thursday – 26th January – was the World Day of Environmental Education.  I'm grateful to Learn from Nature, for pointing this out.  It seems that this has its origin in 1972 with the Declaration of...