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I watched both Brian Cox and Bruce Hood on BBC 4 last night, with the promise of the best double science lesson for many years, if not ever.   As usual in these programmes, Cox flew round the world to...

Just what, exactly?  Well, I read a comment recently that ... ESD is education that addresses the inter-relatedness of social justice, ecological integrity and economics Oh, how I wish it did, but the sort of ESD that I usually come across...

These should more properly be the first snowdrops of 2012, I suppose, but given that they are in bloom at the University in December, that seems premature – or precocious, maybe – possibly like the snowdrops themselves.  Some will cite...

I watched an engaging BBC4 Horizon programme last night which mostly involved theoretical cosmologists putting forward their own ideas and a few arcane diagrams, and being just ever so slightly, but fairly nicely, dismissive of those of others.  Not all...

In a discussion paper for the HEA, ESD and Inter-disciplinarity: focus and trajectories, written in preparation for yesterday's seminar: Inter-disciplinary Sustainability Education: Insights, Momentum and Futures, Alex Ryan writes: Following the work of Mezirow and developments by other educationalists, transformative learning processes generate...

I posted recently on Saudi attempts to get hold of some of the green cash that's to be given to countries that are adversely affected by the world's carbon-reduction efforts.  This, in the House of Saud's case, is to compensate...

In a brief, but aptly thoughtful, 'Thinkpiece' for the 2009 Universities that Count annual report, Stephen Sterling makes a distinction between universities whose sustainability-focused work might be seen as reformist in nature, and those where this might be viewed as...

Sweet chestnuts brown like soleing-leather turn, The larch trees, like the colour of the sun That paled sky in the Autumn seem’d to burn. What a strange scene before us now does run Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black and...

I spotted this on the Taylor & Francis website Typical CO2 emissions from schools in England are rising, despite reductions to their heating demands, because of an increase in electricity consumption, according to new research published in the ‘Building Research...

I'm grateful to Nick Jones for forwarding the latest newsletter from the BRE group which reports that 70% of UK concrete is now responsibly sourced, and covered by BRE Global’s BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing certification. Being curious as to what...