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Initially, I wondered what to make of the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally My first reaction...

I should declare an interest at the outset: I am a big fan of the Large Hadron Collider, and in complete awe of its purpose. There is a story (true, I'm told) of an American physicist appearing before an Senate...

Arjen Wals' blog today has an existential cry about appropriate university courses if you're of a sustainability mindset: Today I received an interesting new years message from Rolf Jucker from the CoDes project: Dear All I hope you have had a...

I have been re-reading (after quite a gap) a still rather stimulating HMI curriculum working paper on environmental education from June 1979 – about which much more later.  The following text is by way of preface to the document: This publication...

I'm grateful to the NUS's Jamie Agombar for pointing me towards recent Defra-sponsored research on behaviour.  One of these studies focused on moments of change. This research project explored whether ‘moments of change’ – times in a person’s life where existing...

Happy New Year. This week's Economist carries a blog [ A less dismal debate ] on the positive influence of blogs.  Amongst the things it says are: ... whatever you think about the impact of blogging on political, scientific or...

This is not an example of my rather tardy New Year predictions, but the title of a recent article in the Onion – and thanks to Alan Reid for pointing it out as I've not been keeping up with the...

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...