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Yesterday found me reading about the Hadow report after a goodly few years.  I remember it was an important part of my teacher training in the heady early 1970s, and then had a prominent mention in the PGCE programme I...

I wasn't going to go to the 2012 UN Jamboree in Rio anyway, as my personal carbon budget will not bear the cost.  However, had I been looking for an additional reason (other than avoiding the existential horror of yet...

Last Sunday, The Observer asked how can we make our schools fit for the 21st Century, which is a question that many of those of us who are interested in sustainability are asking all the time.  It did this by...

I had to go to Sweden in the 1980s to hear the phrase "cultural landscape" and to listen to discussions about its evolution through time and human social and economic practice.  Then, the concept seemed almost second nature to my...

When even English Heritage is moved to dump on you from its rarified height, even this government must recongise something's up.  EH has joined the NT in rubbishing the draft national planning policy framework.  Although its website remains silent on...

Deep Green Resistance (an equally deep ambiguity there) is a book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith & Aric McBay.  Derrick is [the] leading voice of uncompromising dissent, Lierre is a radical feminist activist from California who has been arrested six...

I've been watching the latest video from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on You Tube.  Good stuff. I liked the idea of biodegradable glasses (24 seconds in) and wondered if this is a genuine innovation, or just wishful thinking.  More seriously,...

The Simon Langton grammar school in Kent has shot to national consciousness recently with its cosmic ray monitoring experiments that are soon to be above the earth on a satellite.  NASA, it seems, is embarrassed.  Clearly, monitoring earth-bound high energy radiation...

This week's THE has an informative article on the differences in university funding across the UK, and the emerging issues around the flow of students throughout the UK.  In "Toll Barriers", David Matthews writes: Increased tuition fees could dramatically alter...

In this week's (informative as ever) Higher Education Academy Education for Sustainable Development e-Bulletin we find news of another ambitious EAUC initiative to set alongside its LIFE project.  This is the Sustainability Exchange which is a 2 year HEFCE-funded project...