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It is not only this week's Spiked that is wondering about all the bile that has been heaped on poor old AC Grayling's head over the last few days – just Google "New College Grayling" to see the wide-ranging abuse...

It was great to see Chuck Hopkins at a CREE [University of Bath] seminar yesterday.  He talked about the roads both to and from Bonn, and on to the culmination of the ESD Decade in Tokyo (we presume).  These are...

The 2011 university green league tables are published in today's Guardian.  The usual suspects skulk near the top, but the University of Bath has managed to make it to 31st equal (6 others share this triumph) – up from a...

In my readings around UNECE’s latest edicts around the teacher competencies that will be needed if they (teachers, that is) are to save the planet, I thought it best to reacquaint myself with what the Teaching Development Agency (TDA for...

Catching up this morning with the Economist's bloggers, I read a Babbage column on wind energy and the Californian dream.  As with many other science and technology blogs that I read, the interest comes as much from the discussion as...

I travelled to Edinburgh to the HEA meets the EMF match by train.   Although this took a  bit longer than flying from Bristol, it meant I got to spend a comfortable and undisturbed time reading Stephen Sterling's Future Fit draft...

I listened recently to an address by Dr Shi Gendong, the Excutive Director/Chiarman of Beijing Association of Education for Sustainable Development, who spoke in a plenary session at the third GRESD conference in Uppsala [GRESD is the Swedish Graduate School...

Every year, as spring arrives, and I walk along the nearby Kennet & Avon canal, I feel a strong need to know the names of the huge number of plants that I see.  Not content with their beauty and the...

I was asked the other day by someone from a Community Interest Company: What do you think are the most important, urgent and practical things that can and should be done in schools and in the community to advance ESD? My...

The Learning & Skills Improvement Service has just published a new draft of its paper: Sustaining our Future: a framework for moving towards a sustainable learning and skills sector This begins: The learning and skills sector is increasingly aware of...